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Webinar: Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19: Insights from the Field, Emerging Concerns and Way Forward
IGIDR is co-hosting with CPR and UNICEF, Maharashtra a webinar this Saturday. Please see details below. We are hoping to learn and get insights from the NGOs on the socio-impact of COVID-19 in rural India. Please do join the conversation. It is a two hour webinar and will have three segments of 40 minutes each. Panchayats & Civil Society – Capacity to Respond Women and Children Labour Market Disruptions & Way Forward. Click the link below for details and joining…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Are more productive banks always better?
Title: Are more productive banks always better? Speaker: Dr. Rajeswari Sengupta Schedule: Friday 15 May 2020, 4:00 pm
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Access to educational opportunity in the twenty-first century: An account of Indian children
Speaker: Dr. Tista Kundu, Centre de Sciences Humaines (Centre for social science & humanities), New Delhi Date & Hour: 26 May 2020, 4:00 pm Abstract: Equal access to education is a fundamental right of every children. We use the dissimilarity index and the Human Opportunity Index to assess how far schooling access of Indian children is discriminated by their respective caste, sex, religion, parental attributes and other family backgrounds, using two rounds of National Sample Survey data for the time…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Resources, Reference Management and Research Metrics
Date: Saturday, June 6, 2020 Time: 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm Resource Person: Dr. S.M Pujar, Chief Librarian, IGIDR About: Writing an undergraduate, or master’s or PhD thesis/dissertation and research papers requires a lot of time and effort. Central to this exercise is organizing information, reference material, and data. Online reference managers like Zotero are useful in this regard. They help in automating the process of citing, referencing, and more importantly avoid plagiarism. Learning outcomes: 1. Familiarity with e-resources and…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Too Slow for the Urban March: Litigations and Real Estate Market in Mumbai, India
Speaker: Dr. Vaidehi Tandel, IDFC Institute, Mumbai Date & Hour: 17 June 2020, 4:00 pm Title: Too Slow for the Urban March: Litigations and Real Estate Market in Mumbai, India Abstract: We use data on the universe of 3,000 ongoing formal real estate projects in Mumbai to show that 30 percent of the projects and around 50 percent of the built-up space is under litigation. On average, construction takes around 8.5 years to complete. This paper investigates the causal relationship between litigation and completion…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Fiscal Policy and Transmission: The Case of India’s States
Speaker: Dr. Nikhil Damodaran, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, Haryana Date & Hour: 08 July 2020, 4:00 pm Title: Fiscal Policy and Transmission: The Case of India’s States Abstract: The magnitude of interstate trade in India adds a unique dimension to within and interstate transmission of fiscal policies. We exploit regional variations in fiscal policy to examine its local potency and spillover using a two country New Keynesian model. We find that an increase in spending generates larger…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in India: Has it fallen over time?
Speaker: Dr. Sandip Datta, City Montessori School, Lucknow Date & Hour: 24 August 2020, 4:00 pm Title: Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in India: Has it fallen over time? Abstract: This paper employs a hurdle model approach to ask whether the extent of gender bias in education expenditure within rural households in India has changed over the nearly two-decade period from 1995 to 2014. Our most important finding is that the channel through which gender bias is practiced…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Which Indian Children are Short and Why? The Indian Enigma, Social Identity, and Childhood Malnutrition
Speaker: Dr. Rajesh Ramachandran, Heidelberg University, Germany Date & Hour: 25 August 2020, 10:00 am Title: Which Indian Children are Short and Why? The Indian Enigma, Social Identity, and Childhood Malnutrition Abstract: India has been long identified with extremely high rates of child malnutrition – the so-called ‘Indian Enigma’ – that are not explained by economic factors. We show that the Indian shortfall is driven entirely by the lower stunting rates of children from the lower-ranked and stigmatized castes. Motivated…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Reforming Agricultural Produce Markets in India: Tales of Model Acts and Ordinances
Speaker: Prof. Sukhpal Singh, Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Date & Hour: 26 August 2020, 4:00 pm Title: Reforming Agricultural Produce Markets in India: Tales of Model Acts and Ordinances Abstract: Agricultural markets are a key to ensuring better farmer incomes, but in India, agricultural market reforms have been stuck in the middle for almost two decades as it is, like agriculture, a state subject. The Union MoAFW had prescribed a model APMC Act in…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: How Relevant is Volatility Density Forecasting? Evidence from Empirical Finance
Speaker: Dr. Arpita Mukherjee, Rutgers University, USA Date & Hour: 27 August 2020, 4:30 pm Title: How Relevant is Volatility Density Forecasting? Evidence from Empirical Finance Abstract: In this paper, we provide new empirical evidence of the relative usefulness of interval (density) and point forecasts of asset-return volatility, in the context of financial risk management. In our evaluation we use both statistical criteria, i.e. accuracy of directional volatility predictions and economic criteria i.e. profitability of trading strategies based on said…
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