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Parallel Sessions 2 (17 December,
Thursday; 11.30 AM
-
1.15
PM)
- Session 2(a): Gender
(Conference Room)
[Chair: Vegard Iverson (University of Manchester and ISI, Delhi)]
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol) and Tom Cochrane
(University of Bristol):
"Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Inference
from Matching Trends in Conditional Sex Ratios with Trends in
Availability of Ultrasound".
Mukesh Eswaran (University of British Columbia) and Nisha
Malhotra (University of British Columbia):
"Domestic Violence
and Women's Autonomy: Evidence from India".
Nistha Sinha (World Bank) and
Joanne Yoong (The RAND Corporation):
"Long-Term Financial
Incentives and Investment in Daughters: Evidence from Conditional
Cash Transfers in North India".
- Session 2(b): Transfer Programmes in
India
(Seminar Room 1) [Chair:
Pushkar Maitra (Monash University)]
Shamika Ravi (Indian School
of Business, Hyderabad) and Monika Engler (Universitat St. Gallen):
"Workfare in Low Income Countries: An Effective Way to Fight
Poverty? The Case of Indias NREGS".
Paul Niehaus (University of
California, San Dieogo) and Sandip Sukhtankar (Dartmouth
College):
"Corruption Dynamics: The Golden Goose Effect".
Puja Dutta (World Bank), Rinku Murgai (World Bank) and Stephen
Howes (Australian National University):
"Small but Effective:
India's Targeted, Unconditional Cash Transfers".
- Session 2(c): Institutions
(Seminar Room 2) [Chair:
Parikshit Ghosh (Delhi School of Economics)]
Amrita
Dhillon (University of Warwick) and Jamele Rigolini (World
Bank):
"Development and the Interaction of Enforcement
Institutions".
Birendra K. Rai (Monash
University):
"Your Conscience You Must Keep, or It Must be Kept for
You".
Indranil Chakraborty (National University of Singapore)
and R. Preston McAfee (Yahoo! Research):
"Let the Punishment Fit the
Crime: Enforcement with Error".
- Session 2(d): Economic Growth: Theory I
(Class Room 13)
[Chair: Aditya Goenka (National University of Singapore)]
David De la Croix (IRES, Universite Catholique de
Louvain) and Frederic Docquier (FNRS, National Fund for Scientific
Research):
"Do
Brain Drain and Poverty Result from Coordination Failures?".
Shankha
Chakraborty (University of Oregon) and Mausumi Das (Delhi
School of Economics):
"Death and Capital: Physical and Human Capital Investment under
Missing Annuity Markets".
Aarti Singh (University of Sydney):
"Human Capital Risk
in Life-cycle Economies".
- Session 2(e): Topics in Microeconomics
II (Class Room 14)
[Chair: Arunava Sen (ISI, Delhi)]
Claudio Mezzetti (University of Warwick):
"Manipulative
Disclosure".
Jihong Lee (Yonsei University and Birkbeck College,
London) and Qingmin Liu (University of Pennsylvania):
"Reputation
and Repeated Bargaining with a Third Party".
Ratul Lahkar
(Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai) and
Robert M. Seymour (University College London):
"Reinforcement
Learning in Large Population Models: A Continuity Equation
Approach".
Last Updated on 13 December 2009. |
