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Fellowships and awards

=> Global Development Awards Competition 2023

=> 3rd Stiglitz Essay Prize (SEP)
Last date to apply: September 30, 2023

=> HCPDS-David E. Bell Fellowship Program, 2024-26
Last date to apply: October 11, 2023

=> AERA India/AAEA Mentorship Program
Last date to apply: October 16, 2023

=> AAEA-Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship Award
Last date to apply: October 16, 2023

=> AAEA-Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship for Women
Last date to apply: October 16, 2023

=> Horowitz Foundation Awards 2023 for Social Policy Research
Last date to apply: December 1, 2023



Video of the month

IGIDR Research Publications

1. Mishra, Srijit (2023). Herd immunity, COVID-19 and vaccination: some propositions. Current Science, V.125(4)

2. Nandwani, Bharti(2023). Land Rights Recognition and Political Participation: Evidence from India. The Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis

3. Rawat, Shreshti (2023). Inequality of Opportunity in Changing Access to Employment in India: A Panel Study. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer

Recent Reports and Publications

ADB=> Renewable Energy Manufacturing: Opportunities for Southeast Asia

ADB=> Recent Central Bank Digital Currency Developments in Asia and Their Implications

McKinsey=> The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier

MOSPI => Annual Report 2022-23 of Twenty Point Programme (TPP)-2006

MOSPI => Consolidated Results of Crop Estimation Survey on Principal Crops 2017-18

UNESCO=> Global Education Monitoring Report Summary, 2023

Call for Proposals

ERIA–UNCTAD Project on Updating Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) 16 East Asian Countries
Last date for submission: October 27, 2023

Policy Research on the Economics of Natural Resource Use and Environmental Change
Last date for submission: November 30, 2023

Upcoming Conferences/Call for papers
CoRe 2023 – Sixth PhD IGIDR Colloquium

Last date for submission: September 15, 2023

Mumbai
Other National Conferences /Seminars
International Conferences /Seminars
Inflation in the COVID Era and Beyond, May 16-17, 2024

Last date for submission: September 21, 2023

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
17th Workshop on Political Economy, November 24-25, 2023

Last date for submission: October 02, 2023

Dresden, Germany
4th Bank of Italy, Bocconi University and CEPR Conference on Financial Stability and Regulation, April 04-05, 2024

Last date for submission: October 15, 2023

Rome, Italy
Database of the month
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Recent research articles
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply? by Oh, Suanna

American Economic Review, August 2023

How does identity influence economic behavior in the labor market? I investigate this question in rural India, focusing on the effect of caste identity on job-specific labor supply. In a field experiment, laborers choose whether to take up...
Drivers of corporate investment in India: The role of firm-specific factors and macroeconomic policy by Sahoo, Pravakar and Bishnoi, Ashwani

Economic Modelling, August 2023

India's investment slowdown has proved detrimental to India's growth trajectory. Prior literature has addressed the investment slowdown at macro and micro levels; however, the asymmetric effect of firm-specific variables on India's...
India's just energy transition: Political economy challenges across states and regions by Ordonez, Jose Antonio et al

Energy Policy, August 2023

To comply with international climate targets, India will eventually need to phase out coal-fired power plants and substantially increase the use of solar-PV and wind power. Winners and losers of this transformation will not be...
Identification and inference of network formation games with misclassified links by Candelaria, Luis E and Ura, Takuya

Journal of Econometrics, August 2023

This paper considers a network formation model when links are potentially misclassified. We focus on a game-theoretical model of strategic network formation with incomplete information, in which the linking decisions depend on...
Does going cashless make you tax-rich? Evidence from India’s demonetization experiment by Das, Satadru et al

Journal of Public Economics, August 2023

This paper investigates the tax compliance effects of India’s demonetization policy, which limited cash availability for a short period of time. Using administrative data on firms’ tax returns and variation in the strength of...
Money versus Kudos: The impact of incentivizing local politicians in India by Mansuri, Ghazala et al

Journal of Public Economics, August 2023

We present experimental evidence on the efficacy of a performance-based incentive in motivating elected politicians to improve delivery of a large-scale public program in India. The study randomly assigned presidents of village...
Market Power and Spatial Competition in Rural India by Chatterjee, Shoumitro

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2023

Market power of intermediaries contributes to the low incomes of farmers in India. I study the role of spatial competition between intermediaries in determining the prices that farmers receive in India by focusing on a law that...
Changes in Subjective Well-Being in India by Kulkarni, Vani S et al

Social Indicators Research, August 2023

Despite the growing literature on subjective well-being (SWB), few studies have focused on developing countries. Applying robust OLS and ordered probit models to the India Human Development Survey panel data in 2005 and 2012, we...
Gender imaginaries in energy transitions: How professionals construct and envision gender equity in energy access in the Global South by Alda-Vidal, Cecilia et al

World Development, August 2023

The importance of gender is increasingly recognised in energy research, with growing awareness of the intersections of energy access and gender equity. Yet, a major knowledge gap exists regarding the role of professional intermediaries...
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