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Seminar: “Education and Labour Policy Agendas, Escalating Informality and Social Vulnerability: Mapping Domain & Historical Continuities within Development Agendas”
Speaker: Prof. Veena Naregal (IEG, Delhi) Venue: Seanza Hall Abstract:- For a while, India has topped the tables that classify economies according to the ‘degree’ and ‘intensity’ of their employment of informal labour. Equally the very large proportions of the Indian work force in vulnerable employment have been regarded as making for a distinctively Indian pattern of economic growth. Fronting the moot question, we ask: if economic planning and policy is mandated to assess parameters and priorities to create roadmaps for optimal and viable…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: Modelling bond yield: Case of Japan
Abstract:- Using the lens of a medium scale DSGE model, we analyze the macroeconomic effects of Japan’s unconventional monetary policy which is known as Qualitative and Quantitative Easing (QQE). We model QE as a reserve injection by the Central Bank to the banking system. Our focus is on the Japanese bond market. We model heterogenous responses of the yield curves of coupon bonds of various maturities to a positive QE shock instead of the extant approach of modelling a single…
Event Details20th Macroeconomics and Finance Conference" rel="bookmark"> 20th Macroeconomics and Finance Conference
The Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) invites submissions of research papers for its 20th Macroeconomics and Finance Conference to be held during December 14-16, 2023. The objective of the Conference is to bring together scholars who are engaged in quality research in macroeconomics and finance, and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas that seek to push the boundaries of existing research, particularly with respect to emerging economies like India. For more information, click here for the…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: “Are the Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture Underestimated? A Disaggregated Analysis for India”
Abstract:- An extensive and growing body of literature on the consequences of climate change for agriculture provides a diverse array of estimated effects. This paper contends documented effects of climate change in the literature are underestimated for three reasons: the use of static specifications, the neglect or inadequate treatment of intra-year variability in key climate change variables, and the asymmetric impact of positive and negative climate shocks. We illustrate this underestimation by presenting a case study focused on the Indian…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: “Exploring the influence of urbanization and growth on emissions in developing and emerging economies: evidence from nonlinear methods”
Abstract:- This paper explores the joint impact of economic growth and urbanization on CO2 and N2O emissions in emerging and developing economies from 1998 to 2019. For the analysis, we employ a semiparametric generalized additive model in order to address potential issues of nonlinearity for the urbanization and growth effects. Additionally, panel threshold models are used to evaluate the threshold influence of economic growth on emissions under different levels of urbanization. Our results reveal an M-shaped relationship for urbanization and…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: “Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Transmission of Health: A Recursive Partitioning Approach from Machine Learning”
Abstract:- Intergenerational transmission of health at birth is affected by maternal circumstances as well as exposure to antenatal healthcare policies. This paper uses a large nationally representative survey data to explicitly estimate heterogeneity in intergenerational transmission of health at birth by maternal circumstance and policy exposure. Using a novel model-based recursive partitioning algorithm from the Machine Learning literature that uses econometric tests for parameter instability, this study identifies different circumstance profiles characterized by varying coefficients of intergenerational health transmission. We…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: ” Do political connections reduce the propensity of drought-induced migration of farm households? Empirical Evidence from India”
Abstract:- While the impact of drought on migration is well documented in the literature, no previous research has examined 14 whether households’ political connections can reduce the propensity of drought-induced migration. The present 15 study aims to address this gap in the literature. We used rainfall data from the Indian Meteorological Department 16 for the period 1970–2010 to construct a real-time drought variable and two rounds (2004–05, 2011–12) of the 17 India Human Development Survey data to construct households’ political…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: ” Migration Inflow and School Performance of Incumbents “
Abstract:- We examine how exposure to recent migrants and asylum seekers affects the academic performance of incumbent students in Sweden between 2008 and 2022, a period characterized by large migration inflows. To identify the effect, we exploit variation in contemporaneous and cumulative exposure to recent migrants between siblings and across cohorts within schools. We find a small but statistically significant positive effect on native students’ test scores from cumulative exposure to recent migrants. However, immigrant background students do not experience…
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