8th  Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development

December 17-19, 2012

Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi 110016


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Parallel Sessions 2 (17 December, Monday; 4.45 - 6.30 PM)

  • Session 2(a): NREGA (Conference Room) [Chair: Shamika Ravi (Indian School of Business)]

Stefan Klonner (University of Heidelberg) and Christian Oldiges (University of Heidelberg): "Employment Guarantee and its Welfare Effects in India"

Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) and Soham Sahoo (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme"

Shamika Ravi (Indian School of Business), Mudit Kapoor (Indian School of Business) and Rahul Ahluwalia: "The Impact of NREGS on Urbanization in India"

  • Session 2(b): Prices, Inequality and Deprivation (Seminar Room 1) [Chair: Ranjan Ray (Monash University)]

Sripad Motiram (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research) and Karthikeya Naraparaju (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): "Growth and Deprivation in India: What Does Recent Data Say?"

Amita Majumder (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Ranjan Ray (Monash University) and Kompal Sinha (Monash University): "Estimating Purchasing Power Parities from Household Expenditure Data Using Complete Demand Systems with Application to Living Standards Comparison: India and Vietnam"

Manisha Chakrabarty (Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata), Amita Majumder (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata) and Ranjan Ray (Monash University): "Preferences, Spatial Prices and Inequalities"

  • Session 2(c): Environment II (Seminar Room 2) [Chair: Nidhiya Menon (Brandeis University)]

Basanta K Pradhan (Institute of Economic Growth) and Joydeep Ghosh (Institute of Economic Growth): "Are the Costs of Climate Change Mitigation Policies Higher Than the Costs of Climate Change Induced Agricultural Productivity Shocks? A CGE Analysis of India"

Deepti Goel (Delhi School of Economics) and Sonam Gupta (University of Florida): "The Effect of Metro Rail on Air Pollution in Delhi"

Elizabeth Brainerd (Brandeis University) and Nidhiya Menon (Brandeis University): "Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India"

  • Session 2(d): Empirical Issues in Macroeconomics (Class Room 13) [Chair: Anurag N. Banerjee (Durham University)]

Pami Dua (Delhi School of Economics) and Vineeta Sharma (Delhi School of Economics): "Spectral Analysis of International Synchronization of Cycles"

Claude Diebolt (Louis-Pasteur University of Starsbourg), Prashant Gupta (Swansea University), Tapas Mishra (Swansea University) and Mamata Parhi (Swansea University): "Do Social Polarization and Stochastic Shocks Matter for Convergence Speed of Income?"

Anurag N. Banerjee (Durham University): "Sensitivity of Growth Rate Estimates to Long Memory Process"

  • Session 2(e): Institutions II (Class Room 14) [Chair: Chongwoo Choe (Monash University)]

Jeanet Sinding Bentzen (University of Copenhagen), Nicolai Kaarsen (University of Copenhagen) and Asger Moll Wingender (University of Copenhagen): "Irrigation and Autocracy"

Ashok S. Guha (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and Brishti Guha (Singapore Management University): "Reversal of Fortune Revisited: the Geography of Transport and the Changing Balance of World Economic Power"

Chongwoo Choe (Monash University) and Paul A. Raschky (Monash University): "Media, Institutions, and Government Action: Prevention vs. Palliation in the Time of Cholera"

  • Session 2(f): Topics in Microeconomics (Auditorium) [Chair: Rajat Deb (Southern Methodist University)]

Olivier Morand (University of Connecticut), Kevin Reffett (Arizona State University) and Suchismita Tarafdar (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "A Generalized Approach to Envelope Theorems"

Kuntal Banerjee (Florida Atlantic University) and Ram Sewak Dubeyy (Montclair State University): "Do All Constructive Strongly Monotone Intertemporal Orders Exhibit Impatience?"

Bo Chen (Southern Methodist University), Laura Razzolini (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Rajat Deb (Southern Methodist University): "Co-ordination Failure in a Dynamic Game with Imperfect Information: An Application to Healthcare"


Last Updated on 12 December 2012.