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Parallel Sessions 5 (18 December,
Tuesday; 4.45
-
6.30
PM)
- Session 5(a): Education II
(Conference Room)
[Chair: Veronica Frisancho (Inter-American Development Bank)]
Abhijeet Singh
(University of Oxford):
"The Private School Premium: Size and Sources of
the Private School Advantage in Test Scores in India"
Rajesh Ramachandran
(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona):
"Language Use in Education and
Primary Schooling Attainment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in
Ethiopia"
Veronica Frisancho (Inter-American
Development Bank), Kala Krishna (The Pennsylvania State University and
NBER) and Cemile Yavas:
"Learning Gains among Repeat Takers of the
Turkish College Entrance Exam"
- Session 5(b): Indian Manufacuring
(Seminar Room 1) [Chair:
Asha Sundaram (University of Cape Town)]
Vikash Gautam (Indira
Gandhi Institute of Development Research):
"Evidence on Growth and
Finance Constraint from Indian Manufacturing Firms"
Aradhna Aggarwal
(Kobe University and National Council of Applied Economic Research, New
Delhi) and Takahiro Sato (Kobe University):
"Firm Dynamics and
Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing: Evidence from Plant Level
Panel Dataset"
Lawrence Edwards
(University of Cape Town) and Asha Sundaram (University of Cape
Town): "Trade Liberalization and Reallocation of Production:
An Analysis of Indian Manufacturing"
- Session 5(c): Discrimination
(Seminar Room 2) [Chair:
Ashwini Deshpande (Delhi School of Economics)]
Paramita Dhar
(Central Connecticut State University):
"Housing Discrimination and its
Impact on Economic growth"
Guilhem Cassan
(London School of Economics and Paris School of Economics):
"The Impact
of Positive Discrimination in Education in India: Evidence from a
Natural Experiment"
Ashwini Deshpande (Delhi School of
Economics) and Dean Spears (Princeton University):
"Who is the
Identifiable Victim?: Caste Interacts with Sympathy in India"
- Session 5(d): Monetary Economics
(Class Room 13)
[Chair: Prachi Mishra (International Monetary Fund)]
Shesadri Banerjee (University of Durham):
"Inflation
Volatility of Advanced and Developing Economies: A New Keynesian
Perspective"
Gurbachan Singh:
"Overcoming Zero Lower Bound on Interest
Rate without any Inflation or Inflationary Expectations"
Prachi Mishra (International Monetary Fund), Peter Montiel
(Williams College), Peter Pedroni (Williams College) and Antonio
Spilimbergo (International Monetary Fund):
"Monetary Policy and Bank Lending Rates in Low-Income Countries:
Heterogenous Panel Estimates"
- Session 5(e): Empirical and Data Issues (Class Room 14)
[Chair: Amartya Lahiri (University of British Columbia)]
Rashmi Barua
(Singapore Management University), Gauri Kartini Shastry (Welleseley
College) and Dean Yang (University of Michigan):
"Evaluating the Effect
of Peer-Based Financial Education on Savings and Remittances for Foreign
Domestic Workers in Singapore"
Gopal Naik (Indian Institute of Mangement, Banglore),
K.P.Basavaraj (Indian Institute of Mangement, Banglore), V.R. Hegde (Zoomin
Infotech, Bangalore), Vijay Paidi (Indian Institute of Mangement,
Banglore) and Arjunan Subramanian (University of Glasgow):
"Reliability of Agricultural Statistics in Developing Countries:
Reflections from a Comprehensive Village Survey on Crop Area Statistics
in India"
Viktoria Hnatkovska (University of British Columbia) and Amartya
Lahiri (University of British Columbia):
"Structural
Transformation and Rural-Urban Divide"
- Session 5(f): Political Economy II (Auditorium)
[Chair: Tapas Kundu (University of Tromso)]
Anirban Mitra (University of Oslo) and Shabana Mitra
(World Bank):
"Electoral Uncertainty, Income Inequality and the
"Middle-Class""
Debayan Pakrashi (The University of Queensland) and Paul
Frijters (The University of Queensland):
"The Political Economy of
Migration in China"
Tapas Kundu (University of Tromso):
"Accountability and
Incentives"
Last Updated on 11 December 2012.
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