Journal of Development Studies, January 2023

There is extensive evidence linking air pollution exposure to physical health. Less is known about the mental health impacts of poor air quality, especially in developing countries. We use data from India and estimate the causal impact of air pollution exposure on feeling sad, experiencing cognitive difficulties, and feeling...

Applied Economics Letters, January 2023

In this paper, we forecast short-term monthly headline retail inflation in India using daily crowd-sourced food prices and high frequency market-based measures by employing dynamic factors and mixed frequency models. We demonstrate that the forecast using the proposed approach outperforms the forecasts using the conventional approaches...

Applied Economics Letters, January 2023

Bullying not only has immediate effects but also constitutes long-term impacts on a child’s life. We use the Young Lives dataset, spanning India, Peru, Vietnam, and Ethiopia, to understand the effects of adolescent bully victimization on adulthood labour market outcomes. Utilizing an instrumental variable approach, we...

Applied Economics Letters, January 2023

This paper establishes a predictive relationship between financial vulnerability and volatility in emerging stock markets. Focusing on China and India and utilizing GARCH-MIDAS models, we show that incorporating financial vulnerability can substantially improve the forecasting power of standard macroeconomic...

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2023

We study whether and how peer referrals increase screening, testing, and identification of patients with tuberculosis, an infectious disease responsible for over one million deaths annually. In an experiment with 3,176 patients at 122 tuberculosis treatment centers in India, we find that small financial incentives raise the probability...

Transportation Research: Part D: Transport and Environment, January 2023

Developed countries have already implemented a vehicle scrap policy that prevents the on-road usage of old vehicles beyond a certain age to curtail pollution. Recently Indian government also announced its plans and policies for vehicle scraping.....

Transportation Research: Part D: Transport and Environment, January 2023

The electric two-wheeler (E2W) niche in India has undergone substantial changes over the years due to a combination of global and local factors such as battery technology developments, consistent policy support, increasing fuel prices, and favourable consumer perception...

Journal of Development Economics, January 2023

We examine changes in financial allocations in Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (Roscas), a popular group-based financial institution world-wide, in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. With financial data from locations along the South Indian coast we estimate the causal effect of this major natural...

Journal of Development Economics, January 2023

Fuelwood collection by poor people is often cited as the most important cause of deforestation in developing countries. Using household survey data from India, we show that households located farther away from the forest spend more time in fuelwood collection...

World Development, January 2023

I provide evidence on long-run changes in women’s work for six Indian states common to the 1998–99 and 2019 time-use surveys. Rural women experienced large decreases in work time (especially paid work) but urban women did not. Men experienced larger declines in paid work but partly compensated with greater self-...

World Development, January 2023

Can mass communication play a role in spurring technology adoption and productivity growth in agriculture, particularly when there are significant barriers to social learning? To answer this question, I estimate the impact of regional radio broadcasts, that included significant farm programming, on the adoption of high...

European Journal of Operational Research, January 2023

Post COVID-19 vaccine development, nations are now getting ready to face another challenge: how to effectively distribute vaccines amongst the masses to quickly achieve herd immunity against the infection. According to some experts, herd immunity for COVID-19 can be achieved by inoculating 67% of the population....