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Parallel Sessions 6 (17 December,
Saturday; 11.45
-
1.30
PM)
- Session 6(a): Education I
(Conference Room)
[Chair: Tarun Jain (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad)]
Veronica Frisancho Robles (Pennsylvania State
University) and Kala Krishna (Pennsylvania State University):
"Affirmative Action in Higher
Education in India: Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch at IIT-Delhi".
Surendrakumar Bagde
(Ministry of Finance, Government of India), Dennis Epple (Carnegie Mellon
University) and Lowell J. Taylor (Carnegie Mellon University):
"Dismantling the Legacy of Caste: Affirmative Action in Indian
Higher Education".
Tarun Jain (Indian School
of Business, Hyderabad): "Common
Tongue: The Impact of Language on Economic Performance".
- Session 6(b): Empirical Issues
(Seminar Room 1) [Chair: Takashi Kurosaki
(Hitotsubashi University)]
Lopamudra Banerjee
(The New School, New York):
"A Simple Measure of Disaster
Risk".
Xavier
Fontaine (Paris School of Economics) and Katsunori Yamada
(Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University):
"Envy
and Hope: Relevant Others' Consumption and Subjective Well-being in
Urban India".
Yuko Mori (Hitotsubashi
University) and Takashi Kurosaki
(Hitotsubashi University):
"Does Political Reservation Affect Voting
Behavior? Empirical Evidence from India".
- Session 6(c): Gender
(Seminar Room 2) [Chair: Alok Kumar
(University of Victoria, Canada)]
Arindam Nandi (Center for
Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, Washington, DC) and Anil B. Deolalikary
(University of California, Riverside):
"Does a Legal Ban on
Sex-Selective Abortions Improve Child Sex Ratios? Evidence from a
Policy Change in India".
Laura Zimmermann (University of Michigan):
"Remember When It Rained: The
Elusiveness of Gender Discrimination in Indian School Enrollment".
Alok Kumar (University of
Victoria, Canada):
"Son-Preference, Gender Differentials in Child
Labor and Schooling, and Efficiency".
- Session 6(d): Topics in Macroeconomics
II (Class Room 13)
[Chair: Alok Johri (McMaster University)]
Monisankar Bishnu (Indian Statistical Institute,
Delhi), Chetan Ghate (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) and Pawan Gopalakrishnan (Indian
Statistical Institute, Delhi):
"Distortionary Taxes and Public
Investment in a Model of Endogenous Investment Specific Technological
Change".
Jess Benhabib
(New York University) and Chetan Dave (New York University):
"Learning, Large Deviations and Rare Events".
Christopher M. Gunn (McMaster University) and
Alok Johri (McMaster
University):
"News, Intermediation Efficiency and Expectations-driven
Boom-bust Cycles".
- Session 6(e): International Trade II
(Class Room 14)
[Chair: Kamal Saggi (Vanderbilt
University)]
Swati
Dhingra ( CEP, LSE and Princeton
University) and John Morrow ( CEP and LSE):
"The Impact of
Integration on Productivity and Welfare Distortions Under
Monopolistic Competition".
Kunal Dasgupta (University of Toronto) and Jordi Mondriaz (University of North
Carolina):
"Quality Uncertainty and Intermediation in International
Trade".
Kamal Saggi (Vanderbilt University):
"Market
Power in the Global Economy: The
Exhaustion and Protection of Intellectual Property".
- Session 6(f): Topics in Applied
Microeconomics (Auditorium)
[Chair: Gautam Bose (University of New South Wales)]
Anirban Mukherjee (Indian
Institute of Technology, Kanpur): "Transition of Credit
Organizations: Caste Bankers in Colonial India".
Sandip Mitra (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata),
Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University), Maximo Torerox (International
Food Policy Research Institute) and Sujata
Visaria (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology):
"Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with
Potato Farmers".
Gautam Bose
(University of New South Wales) and Kevin Lang (Boston University):
"A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets".
Last Updated on 13 December 2011.
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