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Fellowships and awards

=> Sir Ratan Tata Post-doctoral Fellowships, 2023
Last date to apply: April 30, 2023

=> OCSI Scholarship 2022-23 [Oxford & Cambridge Society of India]
Last date to apply: May 15, 2023

=> UNESCO-Silk Roads Youth Research Grant, 2023
Last date to apply: May 31, 2023

=> Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz Research Proposal Scholarships 2023
Last date to apply: June 15, 2023



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IGIDR Research Publications

1. Goyal, Ashima (2023). Union Budget 2023–24: The Long view. Economic and Political Weekly , V.58, No.12

2. Pal, Rupayan, Pati, Dipti Ranjan and Shrivastava, Sumit (2023). Corruption versus efficiency in water allocation under uncertainty: is there a trade-off?. Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis.

3. Interview article: Jain, Manisha (2023). Phase-out of fossil fuels not just coal. Journal of Conversations in Development Studies (CIDS), V.5, No.1

IGIDR Working Papers

1. Sil, Rounak, Kurup, Unninarayanan, Goyal, Ashima, Singh, Apoorva and Paramanik, Rajendra (2023). Chorus in the Cacophony: Dissent and policy communication of India’s monetary policy committee (WP-2023-03)

2. Lakdawala, Aeimit, Pratap, Bhanu and Sengupta, Rajeswari (2023). Impact of RBI's monetary policy announcements on government bond yields: Evidence from the pandemic (WP-2023-04)

Recent Reports and Publications

=> MoSPI: Review of Crop Statistics System in India through Improvement of Crop Statistics Scheme-(Survey Period 2018-19)

=> MoSPI: EnviStats - India 2023, Vol. I – Environment Statistics

=> ADB: ASEAN and Global Value Chains: Locking in Resilience and Sustainability

=> UN World Water Development Report (WWDR) 2023

=> UNDP: Technology and Innovation Report 2023

Call for Proposals

NBER: Roybal Center for Behavioral Change in Health
Last date for submission: May 01, 2023

SSRC: CSWEP-SSRC Women in Economics Research Consortium Call for Proposals
Last date for submission: Rolling

Upcoming Conferences/Call for papers
National Conferences /Seminars
International Conferences /Seminars
Conference on Auctions, Firm Behavior, and Policy, June 7-8, 2023

Last date for submission: April 24, 2023

Waterville, United States

6th CEPR-Bank of Italy Workshop: Labour market policies and institutions, September 18-19, 2023

Last date for submission: May 12, 2023

Rome, Italy

New (and Old) challenges to Financial Intermediaries, September 2, 2023

Last date for submission: May 15, 2023

Helsinki, Finland

2023 PCAOB Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets, October 5-6, 2023

Last date for submission: June 4, 2023

Washington D.C., USA

CEPR Conference Series on the Political Economy of Finance, October 20, 2023

Last date for submission: June 11, 2023

Rotterdam, Netherlands

3rd Lille-Reading Workshop on International Finance, October 12-13, 2023

Last date for submission: June 30, 2023

Reading, United Kingdom

CESifo Area Conference on Behavioral Economics 2023, October 13-14, 2023

Last date for submission: July 13, 2023

CESifo, Munich

The International Macroeconomics and Finance Programme Annual Meeting 2023, October 26-27, 2023

Last date for submission: September 1, 2023

London, United Kingdom

Database of the month
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Open Budgets India (OBI) platform has been collectively developed by many organisations and individuals, led by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA). CBGA is an independent, not-for-profit policy research organisation working towards enhancing transparency and accountability and fostering people's participation in governance by demystifying government budgets. The platform provides access to information about how public funds are allocated and spent by the government. Open Budgets India collects and analyzes data from various government sources and presents it in an easily understandable format. This includes information on the budget process, revenue and expenditure, and performance indicators....



Internet Resources
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R for Data Science is a ebook written by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund and publicly available on the internet. The book provides a comprehensive guide to data science using R, a popular open-source programming language for statistical computing and graphics. The book covers a wide range of topics, including data visualization, data manipulation, and data analysis using R. It also introduces readers to a number of important R packages, such as ggplot2 for data visualization, dplyr for data manipulation, and tidyr for data cleaning.....

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Bayesian Modeling and Computation in Python is a ebook written by Martin, Osvaldo A. and Kumar, Ravin and Lao, Junpeng and freely available on the internet. This book provides an introduction to Bayesian modeling and computation using the Python programming language. It covers a variety of topics including probability theory, Bayesian inference, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, and more. The book also includes practical examples and code in Python to help readers understand and implement Bayesian modeling techniques....

Recent research articles
Sectoral Wage Gaps and Gender in Rural India by Merfeld, Joshua D.

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, March 2023

Using detailed monthly household panel data from rural India, I analyze sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I show that the wage gap across the non-farm and farm sectors is much higher for women than for men. Relative to men, women ...

Does a Government Mandate Crowd Out Voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility? Evidence from India by Rajgopal, Shivaram; Tantri, Prasanna

Journal of Accounting Research, March 2023

This study investigates the implementation of a Government of India mandate that requires firms to spend at least 2% of their profits on corporate social responsibility (CSR). The results show that qualifying firms that voluntarily engaged in CSR before the mandate reduce their CSR spending afterward...

On the Structure of the Political Party System in Indian States, 1957-2018 by Ferris, J. Stephen; Dash, Bharatee Bhusana

Constitutional Political Economy, March 2023

We develop and test an equilibrium model of party structure to account for the large and ever-changing number of political parties that contest Indian state elections. The analysis finds that the number of parties increases with the voting density of state constituencies, the heterogeneity of the state's...

Can Reducing Inequality Reduce the Disutility of the Poor? by Wilson, Ed; Verma, Reetu; Jayanthakumaran, Kankesu

Applied Economics Letters, March 2023

Using World Bank (2020), this paper estimates microeconomic utility-based elasticity measure of poverty-loss and provides better understanding of the distress of poverty and possible policy directions in rural and urban areas for India and the People's Republic of China (PRC). This paper deviates from the...

Catching-Up during Technological Windows of Opportunity: An Industry Product Categories Perspective by Giachetti, Claudio; Mensah, Deborah Tiniwah

Research Policy, March 2023

There is empirical evidence of how challengers in an industry can take advantage of technological discontinuities that open "technological windows" of opportunity, which allow them to reduce their market share gap with market leaders, a phenomenon known as "catching-up." However, this literature has examined leader-challenger...

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