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IGIDR Webinar: Cash for Votes: Evidence from India
Speaker: Dr. Shabana Mitra, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore Date & Hour:31st August 2020, 04:00 pm Title:Cash for Votes: Evidence from India Abstract: This paper investigates the prevalence of vote-buying in democratic elections where stringent restrictions on corporate donations to political parties exist. We combine data from state assembly elections in India with household-level consumer expenditure and employment surveys (conducted by NSSO) over the period 2004-11. Exploiting a difference-in-difference methodology, we estimate the effect elections have on the consumption of…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Competition in the Digital era: Implications for Regulation
Speaker: Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi Date & Hour: 09 September 2020, 4:00 pm Title: Competition in the Digital era: Implications for Regulation
Event DetailsWebinar: Domestic Violence and Workfare: An Evaluation of India’s MGNREGA
Speaker: Dr. Nayantara Sarma, World Bank, Washington D.C. Date & Hour: 23 September 2020, 4:30 pm Title: Domestic Violence and Workfare: An Evaluation of India’s MGNREGA Abstract: Economic stress is commonly linked with domestic violence. This paper looks at how India’s workfare program mediates the effect of income shocks on domestic violence. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), guarantees 100 days of employment to rural households and acts as a form of insurance. I use a difference-in-differences strategy…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Transitions between informal and formal jobs in India: Patterns, correlates, and consequences
Speaker: Dr. Kunal Sen, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland Date & Hour: 07 October 2020, 4:00 pm Title: Transitions between informal and formal jobs in India: Patterns, correlates, and consequences Abstract: The Indian labour market is characterized by a high level of informality, with large numbers of workers in poorly paid ‘lower-tier’ informal jobs, and somewhat better paid ‘upper-tier’ informal jobs, which do not have the same benefits and security of tenure as formal jobs. We examine the likelihood of individuals moving…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Convincing Non-believers by Silence: Information Design in presence of Negative Externality
Speaker: Dr. Srijita Ghosh, Ashoka University Date & Hour: 28 October 2020, 4:00 pm Title: Convincing Non-believers by Silence: Information Design in presence of Negative Externality Abstract: We consider an economic decision context where agents require novel scientific or technical information and a planner has economies of scale in learning. We assume learning is accessible costly for anyone in the economy. However, in the presence of an externality conveying information truthfully can lead to ignoring the planner’s recommendation, if the…
Event DetailsWorking Paper: School Expansion and Caste Composition of Schools in Ethnically Fragmented Societies: Empirical Evidence of India
Speaker: Professor Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi Date & Hour: 04 November 2020, 4:00 pm Title: School Expansion and Caste Composition of Schools in Ethnically Fragmented Societies: Empirical Evidence of India Abstract: Providing better primary school access to rural children has led to a secular decline in distance traversed by children to go to schools, thereby leading to a rise in enrolments over the years. In this paper, we ask if there are costs to such fragmentation of schooling…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: A (prospective) review of agricultural productivity in India
Speaker: Professor J. V. Meenakshi, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi Date & Hour: 09 December 2020, 4:00 pm Title: A (prospective) review of agricultural productivity in India Abstract: The paper attempts to review the literature dealing with agricultural productivity in India. It does from lenses of (a) farm-size and productivity (b) sustainable resource (water) use and (c) climate change. Set against the backdrop of a structural transformation within agriculture, the review suggests that there are large gaps in our…
Event DetailsFirst Biennial Conference on Development – Trade and Development" rel="bookmark"> First Biennial Conference on Development – Trade and Development
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) is organizing the First Biennial Conferences on Development during 17-19 December, 2020. Each Conference in this series will focus on a specific theme within the area of “Development”. The theme of the conference for this year is “Trade and Development”. The Conference will include three keynote addresses by leading economists on the theme: Professor Arvind Panagariya (Columbia University), Professor Amit K. Khandelwal (Columbia Business School) and Professor Kalina Manova (University College London). The…
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