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Parallel Sessions 2 (15 December,
Thursday; 4.45
-
6.30
PM)
- Session 2(a): Health
(Conference Room)
[Chair: Anu Rammohan
(University of Western Australia)]
Ankush Agrawal (Institute of
Economic Growth, Delhi):
"Does Place of Birth Matter? Spatial Analysis of
Infant and Under-five Mortality Rates in India".
Loretti I. Dobrescu
(University of New South Wales):
"To Love or to Pay: On Consumption,
Health and Health Care".
Pushkar Maitra (Monash University), Anu Rammohan (University of
Western Australia), Ranjan Ray (Monash University) and Marie-Claire
Robitaille (University of Western Australia):
"Food Consumption
Patterns and Malnourished Indian Children: Is there a Link?".
- Session 2(b): Labour
(Seminar Room 1) [Chair: Mindy Marks
(University of California, Riverside)]
Kanika Mahajan
(Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi):
"The Gender Gap in
Agricultural Wages in India: Spatial Variation, Caste and Non-Farm
Employment".
Clement Imbert
(Paris School
of Economics) and John Papp (Princeton University):
"Government Hiring and Labor Market Equilibrium: Evidence from
India's Employment Guarantee".
Jorge M. Aguero (University of California, Riverside),
Mindy Marks (University of
California, Riverside) and Neha Raykar (University of California,
Riverside):
"Do Children Reduce their Mother's Earnings? Evidence
from Developing Countries".
- Session 2(c): Poverty
(Seminar Room 2)
[Chair: Sriram Shankar (University of Western Sydney)]
Purti Sharma (India Development Foundation) and Niloo Kumari (India Development
Foundation):
"Location as a Poverty Trap".
Namrata Ghosh
(India Development Foundation) and Bhupesh Yadav (India Development
Foundation):
"Comparing Consumption and Multidimensional Measures of
Poverty".
Partha Gangopadhyay (University of Western Sydney), Sriram Shankar (University of
Western Sydney) and Mustafa A. Rahman (University of Western
Sydney):
"Working Poverty, Social Exclusion and Destitution: An
Empirical Study".
- Session 2(d): Topics in Macroeconomics
I
(Class Room 13)
[Chair: Stefano Bosi (University of Evry)]
Halvor Mehlum (University of
Oslo) and Gry Ostenstad (University of Oslo):
"Migration into
Resource-rich Gulf Economies".
Scott Bradford (Brigham
Young University):
"The Global Welfare and Poverty Effects of Rich
Nation Migration Barriers".
Robert Becker (Indiana University, Bloomington),
Stefano Bosi (University of Evry),
Cuong Le Van (Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne) and Thomas
Seegmuller (GREQAM):
"On the Existence, Efficiency and Bubbles of a
Ramsey Equilibrium with Endogenous Labor Supply and Borrowing
Constraints".
- Session 2(e): Political Economy I (Class Room 14)
[Chair: Halvor Mehlum (University of Oslo)]
Madhav S. Aney (Singapore Management University) and Giovanni Koy (London School of
Economics):
"Custodes Invicem Custodiunt: Commitment through
Competition".
Sourav Bhattacharya (University of Pittsburgh) and Tapas Kundu (International Peace
Research Institute, Oslo):
"Resistance, Redistribution and
Investor-friendliness".
Halvor Mehlum (University of Oslo) and Karl O. Moene (University of
Oslo):
"The Battle of Regimes".
- Session 2(f): Microfinance (Auditorium)
[Chair: Ratul Lahkar (Institute for Financial Management and
Research, Chennai)]
Kaniska
Dam (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas) and Prabal
Roy Chowdhury (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi):
"Competition
and Incentives in the Microfinance Institutions".
Brishti Guha (Singapore Management University) and Prabal Roy Chowdhury (Indian
Statistical Institute, Delhi):
"Micro-finance Competition: Motivated
Micro-lenders, Double-dipping and Default".
Ratul Lahkar (Institute
for Financial Management and Research, Chennai) and Viswanath Pingali (Institute for Financial Management and Research,
Chennai):
"Entry of Profit-Motivated Microfinance
Institutions and Borrower Welfare".
Last Updated on 13 December 2011.
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