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Parallel Sessions 1 (17 December,
Monday; 2.30
-
4.15
PM)
- Session 1(a): Food and Agriculture
(Conference Room)
[Chair: Ethan Ligon (University of California, Berkeley)]
Nirupam Datta (Indira Gandhi Institute of
Development Research): "Evaluating the Impacts of Micro-Watershed
Development Project on Agriculture in Bardhhaman, West Bengal"
Menale Kassie (CIMMYT), Simon Wagura
Ndiritu (University of Gothenburg and CIMMYT) and Jesper Stage
(Mid Sweden University): "Gender Inequalities and Food Security in
Kenya: Application of Switching Regression and Matching Methods"
Pierre Dubois (Toulouse School of
Economics) and Ethan Ligon (University of California, Berkeley):
"Nutrition
& Risk Sharing within the Household"
- Session 1(b): Infrastructure
(Seminar Room 1) [Chair:
Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi University)]
Ujjayant Chakravorty (Tufts
University), Martino Pelli (University of Alberta) and Beyza Ural
Marchand (University of Alberta): "Impacts of Reliable Electricity
Supply: Evidence from Rural India"
JV Meenakshi (Delhi School of Economics); Abhijit
Banerji (Delhi School of Economics); Aditi Mukherji
(International Water Management Institute, New Delhi) and Anubhab Gupta:
"Does Marginal Cost Pricing of Electricity Affect Groundwater Pumping
Behavior of Farmers?"
Takashi Kurosaki
(Hitotsubashi University): "Urban Transportation Infrastructure and
Poverty Reduction: Delhi Metro's Impact on the Cycle Rickshaw Rental
Market"
- Session 1(c): Environment I
(Seminar Room 2) [Chair:
Parkash Chander (National University of Singapore)]
Prodyumna Goutam (Indian
Institute of Management, Bangalore) and Hema
Swaminathan (Indian
Institute of Management, Bangalore): "Women's
Assets and Household Fuel Choice in Karnataka".
Aditya Goenka (National University of Singapore), Saqib Jafarey
(City University London) and William Pouliot (University of Birmingham):
"Pollution, Mortality and Optimal Environmental Policy"
Parkash Chander (National
University of Singapore): "Subgame-Perfect Cooperation in a Dynamic Game
of Climate Change"
- Session 1(d): India's Growth Experience
(Class Room 13)
[Chair: Peter E. Robertson (University of Western Australia)]
Mainak Mazumdar (Centre de Sciences Humaines, India),
Matthieu Teachout (Ecole Polytechnique, France), Basudeb Chaudhuri
(Centre de Sciences Humaines, India) and Velayoudom Marimoutou (Universite
de la Mediterranee): "Growth, Regional Disparity and Convergence Clubs
in India: A Sectoral Level Analysis and Decomposition"
Chetan Ghate (ICRIER and Indian Statistical Institute) and Stephen
Wright (Birkbeck College, University of London): "Why was the
Participation of Indian States in the Growth Turnaround So Patchy? Some
Evidence Based on Robustness Analysis"
Samarjit Das (Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata), Chetan Ghate (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) and
Peter E. Robertson (University of Western Australia): "Growth
and the Bright City Lights: Convergence and Divergence Across Indian
Districts"
- Session 1(e): Human Capital: Education
and Skill (Class Room 14)
[Chair: Itzhak Zilcha (Tel Aviv University)]
Fabio Cerina (University of Cagliari) and Fabio Manca (IPTS):
"Catch Me If You Learn: Development-Specific Education and Economic
Growth"
German Cubas (Central Bank of Uruguay
and Department of Economics FCS-UDELAR), B. Ravikumar (Federal
Reserve Bank of St. Louis) and Gustavo Ventura (Arizona State
University): "Talent, Labor Quality and Economic Development"
Jean-Marie Viaene (Erasmus University,
Tinbergen Institute and CESifo) and Itzhak Zilcha (College of
Management Academic Studies and Tel Aviv University): "Public Funding of Higher Education"
- Session 1(f): Institutions
I: Theory (Auditorium)
[Chair: Mukesh Eswaran (University of British Columbia)]
Rajesh Bhattacharya (South Asian
University, New Delhi) and Anirban Mukherjee (Indian
Institute of Technology, Kanpur): "Encroachment as
Redistribution: Optimal Security of Property"
Pascal Billand (Universite de Lyon),
Christophe Bravard (Universite Grenoble 2) and Sudipta Sarangi
(Louisiana State University): "Mutual Insurance Networks
within Communities"
Chris Bidner (University of New South
Wales) and Mukesh Eswaran (University of British Columbia): "A
Gender-Based Theory of the Origin of the Caste System of India"
Last Updated on 15 December 2012.
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