6th  Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development

December 16-18, 2010

Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi 110016


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Parallel Sessions 3 (17 December, Friday; 11.30 - 1.15 PM)

  • Session 3(a): Environment (Conference Room) [Chair: Subhrendu K. Pattanayak (Duke University)]

Sumeet R. Patil (NEERMAN, Mumbai) and Subhrendu K. Pattanayak (Duke University): "Behaviors Exposed: Panel Data Evidence on Environmental Health Externalities in Rural India".

Arkadipta Ghosh (Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton) and Arnab Mukherji (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore): "Air Pollution and Child Health in Urban India".

Ridhima Gupta (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "The Economic Causes of Crop Residue Burning in Western Indo-Gangetic Plains".

  • Session 3(b): Empirical Issues II (Seminar Room 1) [Chair: Sumit K. Majumdar (University of Texas, Dallas)]

Sankar De (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad) and Manpreet Singh (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad): "Credit Rationing in Informal Markets: The Case of Small Firms in India".

Sumit K. Majumdar (University of Texas, Dallas) and Arnab Bhattacharjee (University of St. Andrews): "The Profitability Dynamics of Indian Firms".

Mudit Kapoor (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad) and Shamika Ravi (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad): "Determinants of Corruption: Government Effectiveness vs. Cultural Norms".

  • Session 3(c): Education II: Contract Teachers (Seminar Room 2) [Chair: Geeta Kingdon (Institute of Education, University of London)]

Paul Atherton (Institute of Education, University of London) and Geeta Kingdon (Institute of Education, University of London): "The Relative Effectiveness and Costs of Contract and Regular Teachers in India".

Karthik Muralidharan (UC San Diego) and Venkatesh Sundararaman (World Bank): "Contract Teachers: Experimental Evidence from India".

Sangeeta Goyal (World Bank) and Priyanka Pandey (World Bank): "Contract Teachers in India".

  • Session 3(d): Economic Growth I (Class Room 13) [Chair: Debasis Bandyopadhyay (University of Auckland)]

Fabio Cerina (University of Cagliari and CRENoS) and Francesco Mureddu (University of Cagliari and CRENoS): "Is Agglomeration Really Good for Growth? Global Efficiency, Interregional Equity and Uneven Growth".

Mausumi Das (Delhi School of Economics) and Subrata Guha (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "What Do Teachers Do? Quality-Quantity Tradeoff, Public Education and Growth".

Debasis Bandyopadhyay (University of Auckland) and Xueli Tang (Deakin University): "Understanding the Economic Dynamics behind Growth-Inequality Relationships".

  • Session 3(e): Topics in Microeconomics II (Class Room 14) [Chair: Gautam Bose (University of New South Wales)]

Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge) and Adrien Vigier (University of Cambridge): "Robust Networks".

Marcin Dziubinski (Warsaw University): "Discrete General Lotto Games - The Non-Symmetric Case".

Gautam Bose (University of New South Wales) and Lorraine Ivancic (University of New South Wales): "Conforming to Group Norms: An Experimental Study".


Last Updated on 14 December 2010.