Last Date for submission: August 31, 2025

London School of Economics

Last Date for submission: September 7, 2025

Nicosia, Cyprus

Last Date for submission: September 14, 2025

Lisbon, Portugal

Doing Data Analysis with AI is an open-access course designed for students with a background in data analysis, econometrics, or quantitative methods who want to integrate generative AI—especially large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Le Chat—into their analytical workflows. Through hands-on tasks and real-world case studies, the course covers data wrangling, exploration, reporting, and text analysis, while also encouraging critical reflection on when AI supports, fails, or extends human capabilities. It includes weekly practice assignments, open-source materials, and curated resources to help learners build confidence using AI in data work...

The Open Economics Guide is a key online resource that supports researchers in economics and business studies in adopting Open Science practices. It promotes high standards of scientific work by encouraging transparency, reliability, fairness, and efficiency. The guide highlights how open research enhances the visibility and impact of individual studies while fostering knowledge exchange across academia, the economy, and society. It offers practical tools, tips, and guidance to help researchers make their work more accessible, credible, and aligned with good scientific practices...

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

Political distortions are prevalent in many developing countries, implying substantial productivity losses. This paper investigates the impact of trade liberalization on political distortions in India. First, using variation in political turnover, we identify that politicians distort resources in favor of politically connected firms...

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

India's National Food Security Act of 2013 (NFSA) led to one of the biggest expansions in food transfers in history, affecting over 500 million people. We use plausibly exogenous variation created by the NFSA to estimate the effect of food transfers on child nutrition. Using individual panel data across eight states in India...

The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, July 2025

A transformation is underway in the employment patterns in manufacturing sector across the globe from the last few decades as there is an augmented preference to hire contract workers in order to be cost-efficient. In the present paper, an econometric analysis is conducted to discern the trends in growth, intensity and...

The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, July 2025

In order to comply with the fundamental principles of human dignity and labour rights, it becomes crucial to understand how the well-being of the workers has taken shape during industrial growth and development in an economy. While income, working conditions, social security, work–life balance, health, and unionisation...

The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, July 2025

The primary purpose of the present paper is to dispel the common perception that Adam Smith was only a proponent of laissez faire policy, and was not concerned with inequality and the role of the government. It points out that income inequality and the role of the factors of production in generating inequality...

Journal of Quantitative Economics, July 2025

India remains the fastest growing major economy in the world, but open unemployment is also growing rapidly. Besides, India’s huge poorly educated, low skilled workforce cannot be transformed overnight. This article first describes some blind spots in the PLFS data which may be underestimating the extent of underemployment...

Journal of Quantitative Economics, July 2025

The sectoral growth impact of public expenditure in India is unexplored, although it is important to perceive the efficacy of fiscal policy. In this light, this study delves into the impacts of aggregate and its functional components of public expenditures – namely development, non-development, revenue and capital expenditures...