Last Date for submission: July 01, 2025

Washington D.C, USA

The Ungated Research ​is an online platform developed by Bowdoin College that aims to enhance accessibility to scholarly work in the field of economics. Its primary function is to collect and provide access to publicly available working papers associated with leading economics journals. This initiative allows researchers, students, and the general public to stay informed about the latest developments in economic research without encountering paywalls or subscription barriers. By consolidating these working papers, Ungated Research promotes the dissemination of knowledge and fosters collaboration within the academic community. Users can explore a wide range of topics and gain insights into current economic discussions and methodologies...

WIDER Working Paper 15/2025

We provide annual estimates of inequality in monthly per capita household earnings in India over the period 2017/18 to 2022/23 based on analysis of India’s Periodic Labour Force Surveys. Over the six years, the estimate of inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient is in the range of 0.40 to 0.44 and...

Review of Economics of the Household, March 2025

This paper analyses the impact of enrollment in the recently launched contributory pension scheme, Atal Pension Yojana (APY), on formal retirement savings using a unit-level sample of households from an extensive, nationally representative survey for India...

Economics of Disasters and Climate, March 2025

The latest generation of global climate models robustly projects that monsoon rainfall anomalies in India will significantly increase in the 21st century due to global warming. This raises the question of the impact of these changes on the agricultural yield. Based on annual district...

American Economic Review: Insights, March 2025

We test whether payments for ecosystem services (PES) can curb the highly polluting practice of crop residue burning in India. Standard PES contracts pay participants after verification that they met a proenvironment condition (clearing fields without burning). We randomize paying a portion of the money up front and unconditionally to address liquidity constraints and farmer distrust...

Journal of Comparative Economics, March 2025

Majoritarian identity politics has become salient in representative democracies. Why do parties engage in identity politics, and what are its consequences? We present a model of electoral competition in which parties capture voter groups based on their identity, and compete over an economic policy platform for the support of non-partisan voters...

The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, March 2025

There has been a consistent increase in the average per capita income of households between 2017-18 and 2023-24. This is seen in both rural and urban areas. We analyse the earnings and workforce participation of individuals at the household level to understand whether the increase in household incomes...

The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, March 2025

The labour force participation rate (LFPR) of rural women in India is registered at 39.2%. Among states, the rate is lowest in Bihar (11.3%) based on usual principal and subsidiary status according to the 2020–21 Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS)...