5th  Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development
(Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Sanghamitra Das, 1958-2008)

December 16-18, 2009

Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi 110016


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Parallel Sessions 5 (18 December, Friday; 11.30 AM - 1.15 PM)

  • Session 5(a): Income Mobility (Conference Room) [Chair: Ranjan Ray (Monash University)]

Gary S. Fields (Cornell University and IZA): "Does Income Mobility Equalize Longer-Term Incomes? New Measures of an Old Concept".

Satya Paul (University of Western Sydney): "A Measure of Income Mobility with an Application to China and the US".

Debajit Jha (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University), Sabyasachi Kar (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi) and Alpana Kateja (Banaras Hindu University): "Distribution Dynamics of States in Post Reform India".

  • Session 5(b): Public Goods (Seminar Room 1) [Chair: Farzana Afridi (ISI, Delhi)]

Anil B. Deolalikar (University of California, Riverside), Rana Hasan (Asian Development Bank), and Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics): "Public Goods Access and Juvenile Sex Ratios in Rural India: Evidence from the 1991 and 2001 Village Census Data".

Katherine Dickinson (University of Wisconsin) and Subhrendu K. Pattanayak (Duke University): "Open Sky Latrines: Social Reinforcing in the Case of a (Very) Impure Public Good".

Catherine Bros (Universite Paris 1 Sorbonne - CES and CSH, Delhi): "Social Fragmentation and Public Goods: Revisiting the Olson's Effect in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar".

  • Session 5(c): Empirical Issues II (Seminar Room 2) [Chair: S. Chandrasekhar (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai)]

Piyusha Mutreja (University of Iowa): "International Trade and Cross-Country Capital Composition Differences".

Geeta Kingdon (Institute of Education, University of London) and Francis Teal (University of Oxford): "Teacher Unions, Teacher Pay and Student Performance in India: A Pupil Fixed Effects Approach".

Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School), Xavier Gine (World Bank), Jeremy Tobacman (University of Pennsylvania), Petia Topalova (IMF), Robert Townsend (MIT) and James Vickery (Federal Reserve Bank of New York): "Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India".

  • Session 5(d): Economic Growth: Empirics (Class Room 13) [Chair: David Cook (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)]

Sambit Bhattacharyya (Australian National University) and Raghbendra Jha (Australian National University): "Economic Growth, Law and Corruption: Evidence from India".

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma (University of Innsbruck, Austria) and Tapas Mishra (University of Wales, Swansea, UK): "The Role of Age-Structured Education Data for Economic Growth Forecasts".

Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley) and Poonam Gupta (ICRIER, New Delhi): "The Two Waves of Service Sector Growth".

  • Session 5(e): Topics in Microeconomics V (Class Room 14) [Chair: Rajat Deb (Southern Methodist University)]

Yann Bramoull (Laval University) and Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge): "Favoritism".

Sugata Ghosh (Brunel University) and Jaideep Roy (University of Birmingham): "Motivation, Expertise, and Bureaucratic Embezzlement: Is there a Link?".

Parimal Kanti Bag (National University of Singapore) and Bibhas Saha (University of East Anglia, UK): "Match-Fixing under Competitive Odds".


Last Updated on 13 December 2009.