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Fellowships and awards

=>Commonwealth Shared Scholarships, 2026-27
Last date to apply: December 09, 2025

=>International Climate Protection Fellowship
Last date to apply: February 01, 2026

=>Visiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South
Last date to apply: February 16, 2026

=>Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships
Last date to apply: February 19, 2026

=>UCL India Excellence Scholarship
Last date to apply: February 26, 2026


Video of the month




Capitalism: A Global History

IGIDR Research Publications

1. Gorsi, Abhishek and Ghosh, Taniya (2025). Mr. Jones, unless it runs on dreams, I cannot afford it, Review of Economics of the Household, Springer


IGIDR Working Papers

1. Jaiswal, Himanshu and Ganesh-Kumar, A (2025). US Tariff Shocks and India–US Trade Negotiations: Balancing Strategic Design and Agricultural Sensitivities (WP-2025-024)
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2. Sheikh, Ridwan Ah and Kanwar, Sunil (2025). Revisiting the Impact of TRIPS on Trade: Evidence from Staggered Difference-in-Differences (WP-2025-025)
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Call for Proposals

ICSSR: Call for Project Proposals Under the Scheme Major and Minor Research Projects (2025-26)
Application deadline: December 15, 2025

Recent Reports and Publications

EC=> European Macroeconomic Report

IEA=> World Energy Outlook 2025

FAO=> The State of Food and Agriculture 2025

MOSPI=> Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) Quarterly Bulletin July - September 2025

NITI=> Reimagining Agriculture: A Roadmap for Frontier Technology Led Transformation

OECD=> International Migration Outlook 2025

UNEP=> Global Methane Status Report 2025

WEF=> Shaping the Deep-Tech Revolution in Agriculture

Upcoming Conferences/Call for papers
National Conferences /Seminars
International Conferences /Seminars
Women in Economic Theory Conference, May 15–16, 2026

Last Date for submission: December 14, 2025

London School of Economics, UK

Thirteenth CEPR Economic History Symposium 2026, May 27-29, 2026

Last Date for submission: December 14, 2025

Spain

15th MoFiR Workshop on Banking, July 7-8, 2026

Last Date for submission: January 12, 2026

Italy

Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program, 8 June - 21 August, 2026

Last Date for submission: January 14, 2026

Rostock, Germany

RFBerlin-CEPR Annual Symposium in Labour Economics 2026, June 11-12, 2026

Last Date for submission: January 31, 2026

Germany

Luiss Finance Workshop 2026, May 13-14, 2026

Last Date for submission: February 01, 2026

Itlay

CSEF-CEPR Conference on Labor and Finance, June 26-27, 2026

Last Date for submission: March 01, 2026

Itlay

Database of the month
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Internet Resources
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The Policy Edge is a next-generation public policy platform that bridges research, governance, community insights, and practice. Built on the principles of insight, inquiry, and impact, it provides a space for academics, policymakers, civil society, and startups to engage with evidence-based policy discussions. The platform features key publishing tracks—Opinions, Grassroot Voices, and Perspectives—supported by thematic series aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. It also offers policy tools such as live trackers, roundtables, and on-demand labs, and circulates editorially reviewed content to relevant government and institutional stakeholders...

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The Office of the Economic Adviser (OEA) under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, plays a crucial role in shaping India’s industrial and trade policy. It provides analytical support on industrial development, taxation, foreign trade, and broader economic trends, and supports the government on bilateral and multilateral trade matters. It compiles key national indicators such as the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), the Index of Core Industries, and other industrial production statistics, while also overseeing data collection for the Index of Industrial Production (IIP). Through its work on trade and fiscal policy, including inputs for budget proposals and international negotiations, the OEA supports initiatives like Make in India and contributes to a deeper, evidence-based understanding of India’s economic landscape....

Recent research articles
Just a Few Seeds More: The Value of Network Data for Diffusion by Mohammad Akbarpour, Suraj Malladi and Amin Saberi

American Economic Review, November 2025

Identifying the optimal set of individuals to first receive information ("seeds") in a social network to maximize expected diffusion is a widely studied question in many settings. Several studies propose network-centrality-based heuristics to select seeds likely to increase diffusion. Here, we show that, for the classic independent cascade model of diffusion, either seeding a few more individuals at random...

Social Welfare Portability and Migration: Evidence from India's Public Distribution System by Travis Baseler et al

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2025

This paper studies a new program designed to make food entitlements portable throughout India. We first characterize the state of food entitlement portability using mystery shoppers and surveys of migrants and distributors. We then inform households about the program—and barriers to using it—through a cluster randomized controlled trial...

Can technological innovations be a boon for Indian agriculture? Exploring its asymmetric impact on farm productivity by Arvind Kumar Yadav and Mohd Arshad Ansari

Indian Economic Review, November 2025

In recent years, environmental degradation has emerged as a prominent issue worldwide and gained the attention of environmentalists due to its long-term detrimental impacts on agricultural output, food availability, water supply, and earnings. The current study aims to examine the dynamic asymmetrical relationship between technology innovations...

Growth, Structural Transformation and Female Time-Use in Rural India: 1998–2019 by Sapna Goel and Ishwor Adhikari

Indian Journal of Labour Economics, November 2025

In the discourse on structural transformation and women’s work, it is crucial to examine both production and reproduction spheres. Women’s disproportionate burden in reproduction activities such as cooking, cleaning, and caregiving limits their participation in production sphere...

Gendered Infrastructure and Women’s Time-Use by Dipa Sinha and Aishwarya Rajeev

Indian Journal of Labour Economics, November 2025

Women’s unpaid work consists not only of unpaid domestic and caregiving services, but also production for own use. These different activities are entangled with each other on the women’s work continuum. Using time-use data, this paper examines the different forms of unpaid work that women in India undertake and finds that they are significantly impacted...

Precarious Work and Employment Deprivation: An Econometric Study of Unemployment Duration in India (2020–2024) by Divya Satish Revankar, Aswini Kumar Mishra and Arfat Sofi

Indian Journal of Labour Economics, November 2025

This study explores the dynamics of unemployment duration in India using Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data from 2020 to 2024, employing survival analysis through Cox Proportional Hazards (Cox PH) and Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) models. The analysis highlights an alarming trend of increasing survival rates, indicating prolonged joblessness across socio-demographic groups...

Weather Shocks, Domestic Migration and Human Capital by Papiya Mazumdar et al

Journal of Quantitative Economics, November 2025

Existing evidence on how climate shocks affect migration and human capital in developing countries remains mixed. This paper offers a novel district-level analysis of how weather shocks influence internal migration and education outcomes in India. Using a unique panel of 390 districts from 1995 to 2011, we estimate how deviations in rainfall and temperatur...

Analyzing the Pattern of Household Energy Demand in India: An Application of LA-AIDS and LA-QUAIDS by Pooja Sankhyayn, Utkarsh Anand and Shyamasree Dasgupta

Journal of Quantitative Economics, November 2025

The paper aims to analyse the nature and determinants of energy transition in Indian households, using various consumer response parameters and welfare changes. It estimates the price and income elasticities of energy as a consumption category and of six fuels - electricity, LPG, kerosene, firewood and chips, other traditional fuels...

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