19th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development
Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, December 19 - 21, 2024
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Day 1: 19 December, Thursday

09.00 AM - 10.10 AM: Registration and Coffee/Tea

10.10 AM - 10.20 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks (Auditorium): Farzana Afridi (Indian          --------------------------------     Statistical Institute, Delhi)

10.20 AM - 11.20 AM: Plenary Session 1 (Auditorium)

Raghuram G. Rajan (University of Chicago): “Addressing the Challenges to India’s        -----------   Development in a Protectionist and Automating World”

Chair: Chetan Ghate (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi)

 

11.20 AM - 11.50 AM: Coffee/Tea Break

 

11.50 AM - 01.00 PM: Parallel Sessions 1

Session 1(a) Social Capital: Caste and Culture (Conference Room)

Session 1(b) Health I: Child Health (Seminar Room 1)

Session 1(c) Gender I: Birth Order (Seminar Room 2)

Session 1(d) Political Economy I: Mass  Mobilization (Auditorium)

Session 1(e) Political Economy: Theory (Classroom 11)

Session 1(f) Conditional Cash Transfers (Classroom 13)

Session 1(g) Law and Economics (Classroom 14)

Session 1(h) Poverty and Inequality (Classroom 22)

Session 1(i) Transportation Economics (Classroom 23)

 

01.00 PM - 02.15 PM: Lunch (Guest House Lawn - for registered participants only)

02.15 PM - 04.00 PM: Parallel Sessions 2

Session 2(a) Education I (Conference Room)

Session 2(b) Health II (Seminar Room 1)

Session 2(c) Gender II: Female Labour Force Participation (Seminar Room 2)

Session 2(d) Public Economics (Auditorium)

Session 2(e) Game Theory (Classroom 11)

Session 2(f) Macroeconomics: Indian Experience I (Classroom 13)

Session 2(g) Open Economy Macroeconomics (Classroom 14)

Session 2(h) Agriculture I (Classroom 22)

Session 2(i) Financial Inclusion (Classroom 23)

04.00 PM - 04.30 PM: Coffee/Tea Break

04.30 PM - 06.15 PM: Parallel Sessions 3

Session 3(a) Education II (Conference Room)

Session 3(b) IO: Empirical I (Seminar Room 1)

Session 3(c) Gender III: Women Empowerment (Seminar Room 2)

Session 3(d) Economics of Religion (Auditorium)

Session 3(e) Auctions (Classroom 11)

Session 3(f) Monetary and Fiscal Policy: Text Analysis (Classroom 13)

Session 3(g) Topics in Macroeconomics I (Classroom 14)

Session 3(h) Empirical Trade (Classroom 22)

Session 3(i) Corporate Finance (Classroom 23)

 

Day 2: 20 December, Friday

09.00 AM - 09.30 AM: Registration and Coffee/Tea

09.30 AM - 10.30 AM: Plenary Session 2 (Auditorium)

Karthik Muralidharan (University of California, San Diego): “Accelerating India’s    -------------------      Development: The Imperative of State Capacity”

Chair: Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi)

 

10.30 AM - 11.15 AM: High Tea (Guest House Lawn)

 

11.15 AM - 01.00 PM: Parallel Sessions 4

Session 4(a) Education III (Conference Room)

Session 4(b) Health III (Seminar Room 1)

Session 4(c) Gender IV: Marriage and Family Planning (Seminar Room 2)

Session 4(d) Culture, Institutions and Economic History (Auditorium)

Session 4(e) Market Design (Classroom 11)

Session 4(f) IO and Trade: Theory (Classroom 13)

Session 4(g) Topics in Macroeconomics II (Classroom 14)

Session 4(h) Empirical Methodology (Classroom 22)

Session 4(i) Behavioural Economics I (Classroom 23)

 

01.00 PM - 02.15 PM: Lunch (Guest House Lawn - for registered participants only)

02.15 PM - 04.00 PM: Parallel Sessions 5

Session 5(a) Political Economy II (Conference Room)

Session 5(b) Misallocation and Structural Transformation (Seminar Room 1)

Session 5(c) Gender V (Seminar Room 2)

Session 5(d) Education IV (Auditorium)

Session 5(e) Topics in Micro Theory (Classroom 11)

Session 5(f) IO: Theory I (Classroom 13)

Session 5(g) Macroeconomics: Labour (Classroom 14)

Session 5(h) Environment I (Classroom 22)

Session 5(i) Behavioural Economics II (Classroom 23)

 

04.00 PM - 04.30 PM: Coffee/Tea Break

 

04.30 PM - 06.00 PM: Panel Discussion on “Data for Development” (Auditorium)

Panelists:

 

Saurabh Garg (Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Govt. of India)

Rana Hasan (Regional Lead Economist for South Asia, Asian Development Bank)

Auguste T. Kouame (Country Director for India, the World Bank)

Partha Mukhopadhyay (Centre for Policy Research)


Moderator: Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi)

 

[The Panel Discussion is co-organized with the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi.]

 

7.30 PM - 10.00 PM: Gala Dinner at the French Cultural Centre (2, APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi - 11)

                                    (Dinner is by invitation only)

  Day 3: 21 December, Saturday

09.00 AM - 09.30 AM: Registration and Coffee/Tea

09.30 AM - 10.30 AM: Plenary Session 3 (Auditorium)

Robin Burgess (London School of Economics): “Innovation and the Environment”

Chair: E. Somanathan (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi)

 

10.30 AM - 11.15 AM: High Tea (Guest House Lawn)

 

11.15 AM - 01.00 PM: Parallel Sessions 6

Session 6(a) Education V: Affirmative Action (Conference Room)

Session 6(b) Health IV (Seminar Room 1)

Session 6(c) Land Rights, Conflict and Terrorism (Seminar Room 2)

Session 6(d) Political Economy III (Auditorium)

Session 6(e) Communication and Learning (Classroom 11)

Session 6(f) Applied Micro Theory I (Classroom 13)

Session 6(g) Macroeconomics: Indian Experience II (Classroom 14)

Session 6(h) Environment II: Energy (Classroom 22)

Session 6(i) Behavioural Economics III (Classroom 23)

 

01.00 PM - 02.15 PM: Lunch (Guest House Lawn - for registered participants only)

02.15 PM - 04.00 PM: Parallel Sessions 7

Session 7(a) Labour Market I (Conference Room)

Session 7(b) IO: Empirical II (Seminar Room 1)

Session 7(c) Gender VI: Labour (Seminar Room 2)

Session 7(d) Political Economy IV (Auditorium)

Session 7(e) Contract Design (Classroom 11)

Session 7(f) Applied Micro Theory II (Classroom 13)

Session 7(g) Macroeconomics: Indian Experience III (Classroom 14)

Session 7(h) Environment III (Classroom 22)

Session 7(i) Microfinance and Banking Reforms (Classroom 23)

 

04.00 PM - 04.30 PM: Coffee/Tea Break

 

04.30 PM - 06.15 PM: Parallel Sessions 8

 

Session 8(a) Labour Market II (Conference Room)

Session 8(b) IO: Empirical III (Seminar Room 1)

Session 8(c) Gender VII: Labour (Seminar Room 2)

Session 8(d) Political Economy V (Auditorium)

Session 8(e) Mechanism Design and Implementation (Classroom 11)

Session 8(f) IO: Theory II (Classroom 13)

Session 8(g) Topics in Macroeconomics III (Classroom 14)

Session 8(h) Agriculture II (Classroom 22)

Session 8(i) Banking (Classroom 23)

 

06:30 PM: Vote of Thanks over Tea/Coffee (Auditorium Lawn)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel Sessions 1                         19 December, Thursday 11:50 AM - 01:00 PM

Session 1(a) Social Capital: Caste and Culture (Conference Room)                                      Chair: Sam Asher

 

Gautam Nair (Harvard University), Akshay Dixit (Harvard University), Rajat Saini (National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation; Indian Administrative Service): "Caste Reparations: Economic Advance, Social Concord, and Policy Backlash"

Sam Asher (Imperial College London), Aditi Bhowmick (Harvard University), Maurizio Bussolo (World Bank), Vidisha Mehta (Development Data Lab), Paul Novosad (Dartmouth College): "Cultural Capital and Economic Opportunity in Rural India"

 

Session 1(b) Health I: Child Health (Seminar Room 1)                                                     Chair: Opinder Kaur

 

Anushree Khatri (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), Gitanjali Sen (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "Mission Indradhanush: Revolutionizing Child Health Through Vaccination"

M. Farhan Majid (University of Pennsylvania; USAID), Opinder Kaur (University at Buffalo, State University of New York), Anil B. Deolalikar (University of California, Riverside): "Beyond the Biological Prime: Deciphering the Link Between Child Survival and Maternal Age in India"

 

Session 1(c) Gender I: Birth Order (Seminar Room 2)                                                Chair: Bilal Ahmad Bhat

 

Advaith Jayakumar (Columbia University), Shubhashree Jha (National Council of Applied Economic Research): "Gender Penalty of First-Born Child on Female Labour Force Participation  and Autonomy of Mothers in India"

Bilal Ahmad Bhat (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), Esha Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), Sounak Thakur (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur): "Fertility Outcomes and Parental Well-being in Later Life: Evidence from India"

 

Session 1(d) Political Economy I: Mass  Mobilization (Auditorium)                                 Chair: Resuf Ahmed

 

Utkarsh Choudhary (IFMR-GSB, Krea University), Sumit Mishra (IFMR-GSB, Krea University): "Political Mobilization and Election Outcomes: Evidence from Bharat Jodo Yatra"

Resuf Ahmed (HEC Lausanne), Feyaad Allie (Harvard University): "The Promise and Limits of Leader-Driven Grassroots Mobilization"

 

Session 1(e) Political Economy: Theory (Classroom 11)                                           Chair: Ravi Ashok Satpute

 

Sukanta Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta), Anirban Mukherjee (University of Calcutta), TC Shinali (University of Calcutta): "Violence as a Signal in Electoral Democracy"

Sourav Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta), Tapas Kundu (Oslo Business School, Oslo Metropolitan University), Ravi Ashok Satpute (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta): "Group Specific Public Goods and Political Competition"

 

Session 1(f) Conditional Cash Transfers (Classroom 13)                                                        Chair: Rohan Ray

 

Vaishali Jain (University of California, Riverside): "Counterintuitive Cash Transfers: Incentivizing Child Marriages in West Bengal, India"

Tomoki Fujii (Singapore Management University), Christine Ho (Singapore Management University), Rohan Ray (National University of Singapore), Abu Shonchoy (Florida International University): "School Attendance Information or Conditional Cash Transfer? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Rural Bangladesh"

 

Session 1(g) Law and Economics (Classroom 14)                                                      Chair: Ashwini Deshpande

 

Prabin Chauhan Chhetri (Sikkim University), Rajesh Raj S N (Sikkim University): "Do Judicial Reforms Deliver Economic Outcomes?"

Anisha Sharma (Ashoka University), Ashwini Deshpande (Ashoka University): "Punishment and Crime: Impact of Death Penalty on Local Crime Rates in India"

 

Session 1(h) Poverty and Inequality (Classroom 22)                                                           Chair: Chitra Pratap

 

Rajarshi Chowdhury (Jadavpur University), Simontini Das (Jadavpur University), Saikat Sinha Roy (Jadavpur University): "Do Special Economic Zones Reduce Household Inequality in India?  A Spatial Econometric Analysis"

Chitra Pratap (National University of Singapore): "Changing the Narrative:  Parliamentary Representation and Poverty Conceptualizations, 1999-2023"

 

Session 1(i) Transportation Economics (Classroom 23)                                                     Chair: Sahil Khatkar

 

Anisha Garg (University of Warwick): "Safe Travels: Transport Development and Women's Safety in India"

Sahil Khatkar (University of Texas, Austin): "Multi-homing on Heterogeneous Taxi Hail Modes: Welfare Impact of Uber's partnership with Yellow Taxi companies in NYC"

 

 

 

 

Parallel Sessions 2                          19 December, Thursday 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM

Session 2(a) Education I (Conference Room)                                                                     Chair: Abhijeet Singh

 

Meeta Kumar (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi): "Literally Different? Compulsory Education in Baroda, 1881 - 1931"

Shreedaya Arvind (ASER Centre; Ashoka University), Deepak Kumar (ASER Centre), Rukmini Banerji (Pratham Education Foundation), Wilima Wadhwa (ASER Centre): "Understanding the Dynamics of Home Language Instruction in Shaping Children's Foundational Learning: Evidence from Rural India"

Ajinkya Keskar (Binghamton University, State University of New York), Mauricio Romero (ITAM), Abhijeet Singh (Stockholm School of Economics), Karthik Muralidharan (University of California, San Diego): "Improving Preschool Services: Experimental Evidence on a Technology-aided Intervention in India"

 

Session 2(b) Health II (Seminar Room 1)                                                                                  Chair: Jishnu Das

 

Adrij Chakraborty (University of Luxembourg), Michel Tenikue (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research): "Free Access to and Utilisation of Health Services in Senegal: Effects on Vulnerable Populations"

Anindya Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Chirantan Chatterjee (University of Sussex), Samarth Gupta (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta): "Demonetization and Healthcare Expenditure"

Jishnu Das (Georgetown University), Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Abhijit Chowdhury (Liver Foundation), Jeffrey Hammer (Independent), Reshmaan Hussam (Harvard University), Aakash Mohpal (World Bank): "The Market for Healthcare in Low Income Countries"

 

Session 2(c) Gender II: Female Labour Force Participation (Seminar Room 2)    Chair: Rajshri Jayaraman

 

Lisa Yen Zheng Ho (Yale University), Suhani Jalota (Stanford University), Anahita Karandikar (University of British Columbia): "Bringing Work Home: Flexible Work Arrangements as Gateway Jobs for Women in West Bengal"

Rahul Lahoti (UNU-WIDER), Rosa Abraham (Azim Premji University), Hema Swaminathan (Asian Development Bank): "Marriage, Motherhood and Women's Employment in Rural India"

Rajshri Jayaraman (ESMT Berlin; University of Toronto), P. Sneha (ESMT Berlin; Hertie School): "The Impact of In-Law Mortality on Women's Labor Supply in India"

 

Session 2(d) Public Economics (Auditorium)                                                                     Chair: Anirban Mitra

 

Tanu Gupta (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Digvijay Singh Negi (Ashoka University), Md. Tajuddin Khan (Roanoke College): "Electrifying Change: Household Electrification and Gendered Time Use in Rural Bangladesh"

Katrina Kosec (International Food Policy Research Institute), Jordan Kyle (International Food Policy Research Institute), Sudha Narayanan (International Food Policy Research Institute), Kalyani Raghunathan (International Food Policy Research Institute), Soumyajit Ray (International Food Policy Research Institute): "Can Role Models and Skills Training Increase Women's Voice in Village Governance? Experimental Evidence from Odisha, India"

Sugata Ghosh (Brunel University), Anirban Mitra (University of Kent), Sarmistha Pal (University of Surrey): "Can Minority Representation Promote Social Cohesion between Immigrants and Non-Immigrants? An Analysis of Local Governments in England"

 

Session 2(e) Game Theory (Classroom 11)                                                                                 Chair: V Bhaskar

 

Shraman Banerjee (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), Soumik Kumar Saha (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "Knowing the Unknown: Experimentation under Delayed Success"

Srinivas Arigapudi (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), Yuval Heller (Bar-Ilan University): "Stable Mixing in Hawk-Dove Games under Best Experienced Payoff Dynamics"

V Bhaskar (University of Texas, Austin), Maxwell B Stinchcombe (University of Texas, Austin): "Extensive Games with Randomly Disturbed Payoffs: A New Approach to  Equilibrium Refinements"

 

Session 2(f) Macroeconomics: Indian Experience I (Classroom 13)                                         Chair: Kaustubh

 

Saurav Kumar (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Taniya Ghosh (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): "The Macroeconomic Dynamics of India's Green Transition: A Real Business Cycle Perspective"

Nithin M (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Siddhartha Chattopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Sohini Sahu (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur): "The Excess Sensitivity of Consumption to Sentiments: Does the PIH hold for India?"

Kaustubh (Reserve Bank of India), Abhishek Ranjan (Reserve Bank of India) "A Multi-Factor GDP Nowcast Model for India"

 

Session 2(g) Open Economy Macroeconomics (Classroom 14)                                                Chair: Alok Johri

 

Piyali Banerjee (Ashoka University): "Global Co-movements of International Reserves and their Effects"

Yang Jiao (Singapore Management University), Prachi Mishra (Ashoka University), Antonio Spilimbergo (International Monetary Fund): "Trade and Inflation: Evidence from the United States"

Alok Johri (McMaster University): "Trade, Foreign Cash-in-Advance Constraints and Default Costs"

 

Session 2(h) Agriculture I (Classroom 22)                                                                     Chair: Amlan Das Gupta

 

Gopi Sankar G (Azim Premji University), Soumya Pal (Krea University): "Dairy Development and Nutritional Outcomes of Children: Evidence from India"

Vaishnavi Surendra (Precision Development), Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School), Tomoko Harigaya (Precision Development): "Weathering Climate Change: How Farmers Learn from Forecast Outcomes"

Amlan Das Gupta (O.P. Jindal Global University): "Influence of High Temperatures on Milk Yields for Small-Holder Dairy Farmers in India."

 

Session 2(i) Financial Inclusion (Classroom 23)                                                 Chair: Subrata Kumar Ritadhi

 

Jayati Gupta (Ashoka University): "Financial Inclusion for Women from Minority Communities"

Tarana Chauhan (Brown University): "Accounting for Empowerment? Examining Women's Financial Inclusion in India"

Subrata Kumar Ritadhi (Occidental College; Ashoka University), Muhammad Yasir Khan (University of Pittsburgh): "Equilibrium Effects of Financial Affirmative Action: Evidence from India"

 

 

 

           

 

Parallel Sessions 3                          19 December, Thursday 04:30 PM– 06:15 PM

Session 3(a) Education II (Conference Room)                                                                  Chair: Moshe Justman

 

Bipul Verma (University of Minnesota), Ravinder (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Schooling Quality and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from India"

Deepshikha Batheja (Indian School of Business; One Health Trust), Sarojini Hirshleifer (University of California, Riverside), Opinder Kaur (University at Buffalo, State University of New York): "Does Signaling College-Level Human Capital Matter? An Experimental Study in India"

Naomi Friedman-Sokuler (Bar-Ilan University), Moshe Justman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): "Test-score Transmission, Educational Advantage, and Labor Market Earnings"

 

Session 3(b) IO: Empirical I (Seminar Room 1)                                                 Chair: Debi Prasad Mohapatra

 

Aroon Narayanan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Dynamic Incentivization in Relational Contracts: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing"

Tanya Jain (Ahmedabad University), Rahul Singh (Ahmedabad University): "The Competitive Effects of Fiscal Incentives for Innovation: Evidence from a R&D Tax Credit Reform"

Yogeshwar Bharat (CAFRAL; Reserve Bank of India), Anuradha Saha (Ashoka University): "Firm Performance and Industrial Policy"

Chirantan Chatterjee (University of Sussex), Ying Fan (University of Michigan; CEPR; NBER), Debi Prasad Mohapatra (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): "Spillover Effects in Complementary Markets: A Study of the Indian Cellphone and Wireless Service Markets"

 

Session 3(c) Gender III: Women Empowerment (Seminar Room 2)                    Chair: Shreya Bhattacharya

 

Gaurav Dhamija (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad), Punarjit Roychowdhury (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence; Global Labour Organisation; Monash University), Binay Shankar (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "Does Urbanization Empower Women? Evidence from India"

Faiyaz Julfikar (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), Sukumar Vellakkal (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur): "Gender-based Property Tax Discounts: Role in Bargaining Power of Women in Household and Intergenerational Educational Outcome"

Philip Roessler (College of William & Mary), Tanu Kumar (Claremont Graduate University), Shreya Bhattacharya (College of William & Mary), Boniface Dulani (Institute of Public Opinion and Research), Peter Carroll (University of Michigan), Daniel Nielson (University of Texas, Austin): "Smartphone Ownership, Economic Empowerment and Women's Property Rights: Experimental Evidence from Malawi"

 

Session 3(d) Economics of Religion (Auditorium)                                                           Chair: Kartikeya Batra

 

Abhishek Arora (Harvard University), Aditya Chhabra (World Bank): "The Causes and Consequences of Religious Segregation in Rural India"

Ashokankur Datta (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), Sk Niyaj Mohammed (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "Does Religiosity `Fast'ens the Seatbelts of the Crime Buggy?"

Kartikeya Batra (Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States), Avantika Prabhakar (University of Virginia): "Divine Intervention? Religious Organizations and Public Service Delivery in India"

 

Session 3(e) Auctions (Classroom 11)                                                                                     Chair: Rohit Lamba

 

Juan Carlos Carbajal (University of New South Wales, Sydney), G V A Dharanan (University of New South Wales, Sydney): "Pay-as-Bid Auctions with Budget Constrained Bidders"

James Peck (Ohio State University), Jeevant Rampal (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad): "Reserve Price Competition with Demand Uncertainty"

Rohit Lamba (Cornell University), Seher Gupta (Amazon): "Treasury Auctions during a Crisis"

 

Session 3(f) Monetary and Fiscal Policy: Text Analysis (Classroom 13)               Chair: Ajith Suresh Kumar

 

Nikita Singh (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; University of Delhi), Sourabh Bikas Paul (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Rohit Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): "Words that Move Markets: Quantifying the Impact of RBI's Monetary Policy Communications on Indian Financial Market"

Kunal Biswas (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Srinivasan Murali (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Abhinav Anand (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Jalaj Pathak (Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow): "Fiscal-Monetary Interaction and Sovereign Bond Yields: Evidence from Speeches of Central Banks and Finance Ministries"

Ajith Suresh Kumar (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Rounak Sil (KPMG Global Services), Unninarayanan Kurup (Independent Researcher), Rajendra Paramanik (Indian Institute of Technology, Patna): "Doomed in Din or Synced with Signal: A Study of Dissent within Indian Monetary Policy Committee"

 

Session 3(g) Topics in Macroeconomics I (Classroom 14)                                                   Chair: Shelja Bhatia

 

Pragati Priya (Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow), Chandan Sharma (Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow): "Transmission of Monetary Policy and Credit Supply Shocks to Firm Investment Behavior: Tangibles vs Intangibles"

Karthik Narayan (University of Oxford): "Macroeconomic Effects of Scheduled and Unscheduled Monetary Policy Surprises"

Junjie Guo (Central University of Finance and Economics), Zhao Han (College of William & Mary), Abhiprerna Smit (College of William & Mary): "Fiscal Inflation with Incomplete Information"

Shelja Bhatia (Reserve Bank of India), Bhanu Pratap (Reserve Bank of India): "Uncovering the Transmission of Uncertainty Shocks in an Emerging Economy:  Evidence from India"

 

Session 3(h) Empirical Trade (Classroom 22)                                                                    Chair: Priyam Verma

 

Ridwan Ah Sheikh (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi), Sunil Kanwar (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi): "Revisiting the Impact of TRIPS on IPR-intensive Export Flows: Evidence from Staggered Difference-in-Differences"

Ananya Kotia (London School of Economics) "Trade, Management, and Firm Productivity: Evidence from India"

Anmol Agarwal (University of Virginia), Aishwarya Kekre (University of Virginia): "Ports, Roads, and Structural Change: The Role of Internal Geography in Trade Liberalization"

Rocco Rante (Louvre Museum), Federico Trionfetti (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Priyam Verma (Ashoka University): "The Size Distribution of Cities: Evidence from a Lab"

 

Session 3(i) Corporate Finance (Classroom 23)                                                            Chair: Nishant Kathuria

 

Rahul Singh Chauhan (University of Chicago): "Cashing In or Selling Out: Impact of Electoral Bonds on Corporate India"

Rupali Vashisht (University of Southampton): "Asymmetric Impact of ESG on Credit Risk"

Nishant Kathuria (Texas State University), Sumit K Majumdar (University of Texas, Dallas): "Institutional Transition, Performance Dissatisfaction, and CSR Mandate Fulfillment"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel Sessions 4                              20 December, Friday 11:15 AM – 01:00 PM

Session 4(a) Education III (Conference Room)                                                                    Chair: Sofie R Waltl

 

Akansha Gupta (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi): "Impact of Partition-induced Displacement on the Literacy Rates"

Chinmayi Srikanth (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi): "Education, Marriage, and Mobility in India"

Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore), Pulak Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Francesco Scarazzato (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Sofie R Waltl (University of Cambridge; Vienna University of Economics and Business): "The Association between Adverse Temperature Shocks and Schooling Outcomes in India: Impact Quantification and Mitigation Potentials"

 

Session 4(b) Health III (Seminar Room 1)                                                                                Chair: Yuko Mori

 

Sabareesh Ramachandran (University of Chicago), Fulvia Budillon (University of California, San Diego): "Medical Colleges and Front-line Health Workers"

Monica Agarwal (Northwestern University), Md Moshi Ul Alam (Clark University): "The Unintended Benefits of Women's Empowerment on Household Sanitation"

Tanika Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta), Yuko Mori (Tsuda University): "The Roads to Hospital and Healthcare Access"

 

Session 4(c) Gender IV: Marriage and Family Planning (Seminar Room 2)              Chair: Suzanna Khalifa

 

Doireann O'Brien (Trinity College Dublin): "Is Child Marriage an Unintended Consequence of a Ban on Sex-Selective Abortion?"

Aditi Singh (University of British Columbia), Sarah Vincent (Boston University): "Male Sterilization and Persistence of Violence: Evidence from Emergency in India"

Suzanna Khalifa (Sciences Po Paris): "Female Genital Cutting and Bride Price"

 

Session 4(d) Culture, Institutions and Economic History (Auditorium)                          Chair: Marcus Miller

 

Steven Brownstone (University of California, San Diego), Kartik Srivastava (Harvard University): "The Long Shadow of Feudalism: Concentration of Land and Power from Princely to Post-colonial India"

Devesh Rustagi (University of Warwick): "Market Exposure, Civic Values, and Rules"

Marcus Miller (University of Warwick; CAGE; Center for Economic Policy Research), Alex Karalis Isaac (University of Warwick): "The Historical Roots of Modern Culture: Evidence of 'Moral Sentiments'?"

 

Session 4(e) Market Design (Classroom 11)                                                                            Chair: Indrajit Ray

 

Varun Bansal (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Dinko Dimitrov (Saarland University): "Platform Choice in Matching Markets"

Sonal Yadav (University of Liverpool), Jay Sethuraman (Columbia University), Soumendu Sarkar (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi), Debasis Mishra (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Arunava Sen (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Teacher Redistribution in Public Schools"

Manipushpak Mitra (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Indrajit Ray (Cardiff University), Souvik Roy (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata): "Testable Restrictions of Equilibrium Outcomes in Strategic Market Games"

 

Session 4(f) IO and Trade: Theory (Classroom 13)                                                               Chair: Kamal Saggi

 

Sangita Poddar (Adamas University), Tanmoyee Banerjee (Chatterjee) (Jadavpur University): "One-sided Congestion and Information Asymmetry in a Monopoly Platform"

Nilesh Jain (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Prabal Roy Chowdhury (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Newspaper Market: Impact of Advertisements on Quality Choices and Market Structure."

Aaheli Ahmed (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade), Sugata Marjit (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade), Debashis Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade): "Tariff, Wages and Compensation: A General Oligopolistic Equilibrium Analysis"

Difei Geng (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), Kamal Saggi (Vanderbilt University): "Optimal International Price Regulations under Endogenous Product Quality"

 

Session 4(g) Topics in Macroeconomics II (Classroom 14)                                                Chair: B. Ravikumar

 

Smriti Verma (Ohio State University): "Effects of Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Income Risks in a Heterogeneous-Agent Incomplete-Insurance Economy with Human Capital"

J. Stephen Ferris (Carleton University), Bharatee B. Dash (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "Political Competition, Fiscal Structure and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from Indian States"

B. Ravikumar (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), Guillaume Vandenbroucke (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis): "On the Transition to Modern Growth: Lessons from Recent Agricultural Employment"

 

Session 4(h) Empirical Methodology (Classroom 22)                                                      Chair: Vijayendra Rao

 

Rajveer Jat (University of California, Riverside), Daanish Padha (University of California, Riverside): "Kernel Three Pass Regression Filter"

Shubham Das (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Souvik Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay): "Choosing Wisely: Evaluating Latent Factor Models in the Presence of Contaminated Instrumental Variable(s) with Differing Strengths"

Debopam Bhattacharya (University of Cambridge), Ekaterina Oparina (London School of Economics), Qianya Xu (University of Cambridge): "Welfare Analysis with Nonlinear Budget Sets"

Julian Ashwin (Maastricht University), Vijayendra Rao (World Bank), Monica Biradavolu (Qual Analytics), Aditya Chhabra (World Bank), Arshia Haque (World Bank), Afsana Khan (Princeton University), Nandini Krishnan (World Bank): "A Method to Scale-Up Interpretative Qualitative Analysis, with an Application to Aspirations in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh"

 

Session 4(i) Behavioural Economics I (Classroom 23)                                              Chair: Ananish Chaudhuri

 

Rajib Prasad (Vidyasagar College for Women, University of Calcutta), Sujoy Chakravarty (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "Effect of Cheap Talk in an Asymmetric Contest: An Experimental Investigation"

Ankush Asri (Chr. Michelsen Institute), Urs Fischbacher (University of Konstanz), Jan Hausfeld (University of Amsterdam), Yvette Lambi (University of Amsterdam): "Affirmative Action: Within-group Inequality in Competitive Environments"

Ananish Chaudhuri (University of Auckland), Abhijit Ramalingam (Appalachian State University), Scott Claessens (University of Kent), Michalis Drouvelis (University of Birmingham), Brock Stoddard (Appalachian State University), Quentin Atkinson (University of Auckland): "Luck or Merit: Implications for Cooperation and Punishment of Free-riding in a Public Goods Game"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel Sessions 5                              20 December, Friday 02:15 PM – 04:00 PM

Session 5(a) Political Economy II (Conference Room)                                                        Chair: Shareen Joshi

 

Apurva Bamezai (University of Pennsylvania), Siddharth George (National University of Singapore), Siddharth Hari (World Bank), M R Sharan (University of Maryland, College Park): "Learning to Govern: The Impact of Politicians' Peer Networks"

Iman Sen (University of Maryland, College Park), M R Sharan (University of Maryland, College Park): "The Impact of Women's Self Help Groups on Electoral Participation: Evidence from India"

Anand Murugesan (Central European University Vienna), Jean-Robert Tyran (University of Vienna): "Why Votes Are (Not) For Sale? Evidence from an Institutional Discontinuity in Southern India"

Sandeep Bhupatiraju (World Bank), Daniel L. Chen (Toulouse School of Economics), Shareen Joshi (Georgetown University), Peter Neis (CERDI; Université Clermont Auvergne): "Islamophobia in the Justice System and Judicial Mitigation in Bihar, India"

 

Session 5(b) Misallocation and Structural Transformation (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Sampreet Singh Goraya

 

Aparajita Dasgupta (Ashoka University), Devvrat Raghav (University of Virginia): "Rural Roads, Climate Change, and the Dynamics of Structural Transformation: Evidence from India"

Miheer Athalye (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) "Spillover Effects of Land Market Frictions: Growth of the Unskilled Services at the Cost of Manufacturing"

Sampreet Singh Goraya (Stockholm School of Economics), Akhil Ilango (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore): "Identity, Market Access, and Demand-led Diversification"

 

Session 5(c) Gender V (Seminar Room 2)                                                                                 Chair: Tarun Jain

 

Emily Beam (University of Vermont), Priya Mukherjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Gender-Specific Earnings Losses and Child Well-being: Evidence from Vulnerable Households in Bangladesh"

Sofia Amaral (World Bank), Kim Chaney (University of Connecticut), Victoria Kaiser (ifo Institute), Nishith Prakash (Northeastern University), Abhilasha Sahay (World Bank): "Confronting Prejudice: Uncovering Stereotypes Among Police Officers in India"

Diva Dhar (University of Oxford), Tarun Jain (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Seema Jayachandran (Princeton University): "Eroding Restrictive Gender Norms through Schools: A 6-year Follow-up Study"

 

Session 5(d) Education IV (Auditorium)                                                                          Chair: Nishith Prakash

 

Priyadarshi Amar (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sumitra Badrinathan (American University), Simon Chauchard (University Carlos III Madrid; Instituto Carlos 3 - Juan March), Florian Sichart (Princeton University): "Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India"

Ankush Asri (Chr. Michelsen Institute; University of Konstanz), Viola Asri (Chr. Michelsen Institute; University of Konstanz), Anke Hoeffler (University of Konstanz): "Unlocking Young Women's Minds? The Impact of a Low-cost Career Guidance Program"

Nishith Prakash (Northeastern University), Raisa Sherif (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance), Nirajana Mishra (Northeastern University), Shubhro Bhattacharya (University of California, San Diego), Sara M. Constantino (Stanford University), Shwetlena Sabarwal (World Bank), Dighbijoy Samaddar (Centre for Social and Behavior Change): "Intergenerational Transmission of Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors"

 

Session 5(e) Topics in Micro Theory (Classroom 11)                                                       Chair: James E. Foster

 

Ritesh Jain (University of Liverpool), Michele Lombardi (University of Liverpool), Antonio Penta (ICREA-UPF; BSE; TSE): "Strategically Robust Implementation"

Anisha Bandyopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Sinan Ertemel (Istanbul Technical University), Rajnish Kumar (Queen's University, Belfast), Saptarshi Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): "Integrating Proportional and Egalitarian Principles in Claims Problems"

Thierry Marchant (Ghent University), Denis Bouyssou (CNRS), Marc Pirlot (Université De Mons): "About Maximal Antichains in a Product of Two Chains: A Catch-all Note"

James E. Foster (George Washington University; University of Oxford), Michael Lokshin (World Bank): "Multidimensional and Specific Inequalities"

 

Session 5(f) IO: Theory I (Classroom 13)                                                                            Chair: Debapriya Sen

 

Akhil Goyal (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Tridip Ray (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Tax Evasion: Role of Third Party Reporting Under Price and Wage Competition"

Saish Vijay Nevrekar (Ashoka University): "Shaping Innovation: How Mergers Influence Disruptive and Incremental Paths"

Debapriya Sen (Toronto Metropolitan University), Giorgos Stamatopoulos (University of Crete): "Product Innovation in a Dual Economy with Ownership Structure"

 

Session 5(g) Macroeconomics: Labour (Classroom 14)                                                    Chair: Anushka Mitra

 

Oindrila Sen (Jadavpur University), Bidisha Chakraborty (Jadavpur University), Poulomi Roy (Jadavpur University): "Dynamics of Skill to Job Matching Across Generations: A Theoretical & Empirical Analysis"

Abhitesh Ranjan (Ahmedabad University): "Effect of Reserve Accumulation on Employment"

Anushka Mitra (Federal Reserve Board of Governors): "Imperfect Information and Slow Recoveries in the Labor Market"

 

Session 5(h) Environment I (Classroom 22)                                                          Chair: Arnold Patrick Behrer

 

Benston John (St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi; Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi), E. Somanathan (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi): "Evaluating the Impacts of Cool Roofs: A Pilot Study in Thiruvananthapuram District of Kerala"

Agnij Sur (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Impacts of Community-Based Forest Management on Bird Diversity: Evidence from Nepal's CFUG program"

Saumya Deojain (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology; University of Rochester), David Lindequist (Miami University): "Greener Thy Neighbor? On the Welfare Effects of Protectionist Climate Policies"

Arnold Patrick Behrer (World Bank), Hemant Pullabhotla (Deakin University): "Spilling Over: The Benefits of Public Works Projects for Groundwater in India"

 

Session 5(i) Behavioural Economics II (Classroom 23)                                                   Chair: Nishtha Sharma

 

Subhasish Dey (University of Warwick), Sagara Ann Johny (University of Warwick), Nikita Sangwan (Queen's University Belfast): "Muted Ripples: Exploring the Effect of India’s Demonetisation on Household Sentiments"

Divyanshu Jain (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad): "Beyond Perception: Impact of Precision of Monitoring on Performance in Competitive Settings"

Nishtha Sharma (NYU, Abu Dhabi), Samreen Malik (NYU, Abu Dhabi): "The Economics of Begging"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel Sessions 6                          21 December, Saturday 11:15 AM – 01:00 PM

Session 6(a) Education V: Affirmative Action (Conference Room)                                  Chair: Swati Sharma

 

Monica Agarwal (Northwestern University): "The Role of Affirmative Action in Enrollment, Test Scores, and School Quality: Evidence from India"

Athira Vinod (National Council of Applied Economic Research): "Affirmative Action and Private Education Expenditure by Disadvantaged Groups: Evidence from India"

Swati Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Nandana Sengupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): "Debunking Myths Associated with Affirmative Action: using Evidence from Supernumerary Seat Scheme"

 

Session 6(b) Health IV (Seminar Room 1)                                                                             Chair: Kunal Panda

 

Souvik Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Swapnil Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Shoummo Sen Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Kshitiz Udainiya (University of Maryland) "Caste Disparities in Awareness of Hypertension and Uncontrolled Blood Pressure in India"

Bharti Nandwani (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Ishita Varma (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): "Impact of Decentralization of Governance on Health Seeking Behaviour of Tribal Communities"

Kunal Panda (Sciences Po Paris): "Preventive Care, Land Use, and Undernutrition: Unravelling the Colonial Mechanism in India"

 

Session 6(c) Land Rights, Conflict and Terrorism (Seminar Room 2)                 Chair: Chandan Kumar Jha

 

Ankit Bhatia (Johns Hopkins University): "Protected Land Rights, Misallocation, and Dead Capital: Evidence from India"

Anindya S. Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Rohan Gudibande (Krea University), Abhishek Shaw (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad): "Conflicts and Consumption"

Chandan Kumar Jha (Le Moyne College), Ishita Tripathi (Ahmedabad University): "Terrorism and Trust in Institutions: Micro Evidence from Europe"

 

Session 6(d) Political Economy III (Auditorium)                                                                   Chair: Kalle Moene

 

Ronit Mukherji (Ashoka University), Sakshi Satija (Ashoka University): "Electoral Cycles and Consumption in India"

Anustubh Agnihotri (Ashoka University), Pranav Gupta (University of California, Berkeley): "Political Economy of Environment Clearances in India"

Kalle Moene (University of Oslo), Rob Davies (University of Zimbabwe), Halvor Mehlum (University of Oslo), Ragnar Torvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim): "Land Redistribution as Vote Buying"

 

Session 6(e) Communication and Learning (Classroom 11)                                                Chair: Srijita Ghosh

 

Promit K. Chaudhuri (Virginia Tech), Jonghyun Park (Virginia Tech), Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech), Hector Tzavellas (Virginia Tech): "Learning a Network"

Swagata Bhattacharjee (O. P. Jindal Global University), Srijita Ghosh (Ashoka University), Suraj Shekhar (Ashoka University): "Communicating Bias"

Srijita Ghosh (Ashoka University): "Strategic Communication and Scientific Learning"

 

Session 6(f) Applied Micro Theory I (Classroom 13)                                                             Chair: Parimal Bag

 

Nikita Gupta (SP Jain Institute of Management and Research), Ayush Gupta (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Sachin Jayaswal (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Ranjan Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad): "The Rise of Digital Platforms, Direct Procurement, Channel Substitution and Impact on Farmer and Consumer Welfare"

Arghya Ghosh (University of New South Wales, Sydney), Kieron Meagher (Australian National University): "A Model of Job-stress and Burnout"

Parimal Bag (National University of Singapore): "Dowry, Violence and  Divorce"

 

Session 6(g) Macroeconomics: Indian Experience II (Classroom 14)                        Chair: N. Kundan Kishor

 

Yogeshwar Bharat (CAFRAL), Subhadeep Halder (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Nirupama Kulkarni (CAFRAL): "Financial Repression, Deposit Rate Deregulation, and Bank Market Power"

Anshul Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati), Agnirup Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati): "Term Structure Dynamics in India: A DSGE Analysis"

N. Kundan Kishor (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Bhanu Pratap (Reserve Bank of India): "The Role of Inflation Targeting in Anchoring Long-Run Inflation Expectations: Evidence from India"

 

Session 6(h) Environment II: Energy (Classroom 22)                                              Chair: Chetana Chaudhuri

 

Priyanka Dutta (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi), Kanishka Kacker (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi): "Subsidies for Solar-based Electricity Generation: Evidence from India"

Shefali Khanna (London School of Economics), Ralf Martin (Imperial College London; IFC), Mirabelle Muûls (Imperial College London): "Shifting Household Power Demand across Time: Incentives and Automation"

Sanjib Pohit (National Council of Applied Economic Research), Anindya Bhattacharya (The Celestial Earth), Chetana Chaudhuri (National Council of Applied Economic Research), Devender Pratap (National Council of Applied Economic Research), Somya Mathur (National Council of Applied Economic Research), Mohit Kumar Meena (The Celestial Earth), Amarendra Dash (National Institute of Science Education and Research), Malavika Thampi (The Celestial Earth), Srijata Datta (National Council of Applied Economic Research): "Economic Impact of Green Transition in Odisha: A Subnational CGE-based IAM model for India"

 

Session 6(i) Behavioural Economics III (Classroom 23)                                        Chair: Surajeet Chakravarty

 

Aarushi Kalra (Brown University): "Social Media Algorithms versus Preferences in a Large-Scale RCT"

Priyoma Mustafi (University of Pittsburgh): "Information Pooling in the Household: The Role of Expertise"

Surajeet Chakravarty (University of Exeter), Todd Kaplan (University of Exeter), Luke Lindsay (University of Exeter): "Increasing Employment with Coarse Information"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel Sessions 7                          21 December, Saturday 02:15 PM – 04:00 PM

Session 7(a) Labour Market I (Conference Room)                                                 Chair: Shyamal Chowdhury

 

Ruchi Mahadeshwar (Brown University), Alex Zhou (University of Warwick): "Outside Options and the Supply of Sex Work"

Apurav Bhatia (University of Birmingham), Bhaskar Chakravorty (University of Warwick), Clement Imbert (Science Po Paris), Roland Rathelot (ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris): "How do Beliefs and Preferences over Jobs Affect Enrollment in Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence from India"

Shyamal Chowdhury (University of Sydney), Syed Hasan (Massey University), Uttam Sharma (University of Minnesota): "The Role of Trainee Selection in the Effectiveness of Vocational Training: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Nepal"

 

Session 7(b) IO: Empirical II (Seminar Room 1)                                                              Chair: Megha Patnaik

 

Kamalesh Manohar Pahurkar (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Vidhya Soundararajan (CAFRAL): "Small-scale Production Dereservation and Product Quality"

Abhishek Anand (Insignia Policy Research), Arvind Subramanian (Peterson Institute for International Economics), Naveen Joseph Thomas (O. P. Jindal Global University): "Multiplying Multi-Plants: Three New Facts about Large Plant Size in India and Their Consequence"

Megha Patnaik (LUISS Guido Carli), Nick Bloom (Stanford University), Pete Klenow (Stanford University), Shelby Buckman (Stanford University), Mert Akan (Stanford University): "Big India versus Big U.S."

 

Session 7(c) Gender VI: Labour (Seminar Room 2)                                                         Chair: Shubham Ojha

 

Kanika Mahajan (Ashoka University), Nandhini S. (Ashoka University): "Restart: Women, Career Breaks and Employer Response"

Achyuta Adhvaryu (University of California, San Diego; NBER; BREAD; J-PAL; Good Business Lab), Sowmya Dhanaraj (Good Business Lab), Smit Gade (Good Business Lab), Anant Nyshadham (University of Michigan; NBER; BREAD; J-PAL; Good Business Lab), Apoorv Somanchi (Good Business Lab): "Breaking the Paycycle: Impact of Flexible Salary on Women Factory Workers"

Somdeep Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; Monash University), Ralitza Dimova (University of Manchester), Shubham Ojha (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta): "Labor Market Penalty for Single Mothers"

 

Session 7(d) Political Economy IV (Auditorium)                                                            Chair: Anders Kjelsrud

 

Shubhangi Jaiswal (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "Educated Leaders and Political Effort: Evidence from India"

Sourav Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta), Somdeep Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta), Pushkar Maitra (Monash University), Manhar Manchanda (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta): "The Relevant Third: Threat of Coalition and Economic Development"

Anders Kjelsrud (Oslo Metropolitan University), Anirban Mitra (University of Kent), Arnab Mukherji (IIM Bangalore): "Political Dynasties and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence from India"

 

Session 7(e) Contract Design (Classroom 11)                                                           Chair: Suchismita Tarafdar

 

Ritika Verma (New York University): "On the Knife Edge: VC Contracts with Informed Investor"

Sumit Goel (NYU, Abu Dhabi), Wade Hann-Caruthers (Technion): "Luce Contracts"

Shubhro Sarkar (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Suchismita Tarafdar (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "A Strategic Foundation for Alphabetical Ordering of Authors"

 

Session 7(f) Applied Micro Theory II (Classroom 13)                                          Chair: Pratishtha Chaturvedi

 

Ayushi Choudhary (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Rupayan Pal (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Gopakumar Achuthankutty (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): "Rent-Seeking and Administrative Unit Proliferation"

Swapnendu Banerjee (Jadavpur University), Soumyarup Saha (Jadavpur University): ""Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely?" - A Political Agency Theoretic Approach"

Pratishtha Chaturvedi (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi), Ram Singh (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi): "Partial Takings and Project Induced Externalities"

 

Session 7(g) Macroeconomics: Indian Experience III (Classroom 14)                              Chair: Bhanu Pratap

 

Suranjana Kundu (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): "Distributional Consequences of Monetary Policy: A Continuous Time Heterogeneous Agent Model for India"

Soumya Bhadury (Reserve Bank of India), Bhanu Pratap (Reserve Bank of India), Jay Surti (International Monetary Fund): "Emerging Market Cycles: Twin-Balance Sheet Deficits and Macro-Financial Linkages"

 

Session 7(h) Environment III (Classroom 22)                                                                   Chair: Paul Kattuman

 

Digvijay Singh Negi (Ashoka University): "State Mediated Trade, Distortions and Air Pollution"

Hisham Ali Ashraf (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Abhijit Banerji (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Sisir Debnath (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): "Earth, Water, Fire, Air: Causal Impacts of Water  Preservation Acts of Indian States"

Paul Kattuman (University of Cambridge), Andrew Harvey (University of Cambridge), Vikram Singh (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): "Air Pollution in Delhi: Does GRAP grip?"

 

Session 7(i) Microfinance and Banking Reforms (Classroom 23)                                  Chair: Asha Sundaram

 

Muneer Kalliyil (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Soham Sahoo (Loughborough University; Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore): "Does Restricting Access to Credit Affect Learning Outcomes? Evidence from a Regulatory Shock to Microfinance in India"

Varun Yadav (Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode), Abhiman Das (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad): "Demand for Deposit Services and Welfare Implications of Saving Bank Interest Rate Deregulation: Evidence from India"

Prasanna Gai (University of Auckland), Akshat Vikram Singh (University of Oxford), Asha Sundaram (University of Auckland), Gautham Udupa (CAFRAL): "Do Creditor Rights Reduce Tunneling? Evidence From India's Bankruptcy Law Reforms"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel Sessions 8                          21 December, Saturday 04:30 PM – 06:15 PM

Session 8(a) Labour Market II (Conference Room)                                            Chair: Vidhya Soundararajan

 

Ronit Mukherji (Ashoka University), Anand Chopra (University of Liverpool): "Automation and Local Labour Markets: Impact of Immigrant Mobility"

Ekaterina Prytkova (Côte d’Azur University), Fabien Petit (University College London), Deyu Li (Utrecht University), Sugat Chaturvedi (Ahmedabad University), Tommaso Ciarli (UNU-MERIT; University of Sussex): "The Employment Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies"

Sofia Amaral (World Bank), Aakash Bhalothia (University of California, San Diego), Ritam Chaurey (Johns Hopkins University), Isis Gaddis (World Bank), Gaurav Khanna (University of California, San Diego), Samreen Malik (NYU, Abu Dhabi), Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Nishith Prakash (Northeastern University), Raghav Rakesh (Michigan State University): "Entrepreneurial Mindsets at Scale: Evidence from a Curriculum Expansion in India"

Tsenguunjav Byambasuren (Cornell University), Nancy H. Chau (Cornell University), Vidhya Soundararajan (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; CAFRAL): "Public Works, Labor Supply, and Monopsony"

 

Session 8(b) IO: Empirical III (Seminar Room 1)                                           Chair: S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan

 

Saipremnath Muthukumaran (University of Warwick): "Firm Size and Climate Change: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing"

Priya Rachel David (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta): "Global Value Chains, a Development Paradigm? Evidence from the Indian Experience"

Kartiki Verma (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi): "An Index of De facto Intellectual Property Rights Protection and its Impact on Economic Growth in India"

S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan (London Business School), Rebecca De Simone (London Business School), Kunal Sachdeva (University of Michigan): "Opening the Brown Box: Production Responses to Environmental Regulation"

 

Session 8(c) Gender VII: Labour (Seminar Room 2)                                                        Chair: Deepti Sharma

 

Rashmi Barua (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Swati Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "Skilled but Invisible: The Gendered Impact of Skill Training on Employment and Migration"

Achyuta Adhvaryu (University of California, San Diego), Anant Nyshadham (University of Michigan), Priyanka Sarda (Good Business Lab), Huayu Xu (Peking University): "Encouraging Skilling and Employment Opportunities for Female Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers"

Rahul Lahoti (UNU-WIDER), Deepti Sharma (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Hema Swaminathan (Asian Development Bank): "Does it Matter Who You Ask For Time Use Data?"

 

Session 8(d) Political Economy V (Auditorium)                                                                 Chair: Bipasha Maity

 

Mahima Vasishth (Bocconi University): "Female Leaders and Education Infrastructure Investments: Evidence from Rural India"

Bharti Nandwani (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Punarjit Roychowdhury (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "Property Inheritance Rights and Female Political Participation in India"

Sutirtha Bandyopadhyay (Indian Institute of Management, Indore), Pranabes Dutta (City University of New York), Naveen Hari (Texas A&M University), Bipasha Maity (Ashoka University): "Female Legislators and Forest Conservation in India"

 

Session 8(e) Mechanism Design and Implementation (Classroom 11)               Chair: Shasikanta Nandeibam

 

Sarvesh Bandhu (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Parikshit De (IISER, Bhopal), Devwrat Dube (IISER, Bhopal): "Queueing Problems with Heterogeneous Opportunity Costs"

Debasis Mishra (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Sanket Patil (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore): "Undominated Monopoly Regulation"

Shasikanta Nandeibam (University of Bath), Lucy O'Shea (University of Bath): "State Dependent Sharing and Efficiency in Teams"

 

Session 8(f) IO: Theory II (Classroom 13)                                                                          Chair: Kiriti Kanjilal

 

Sana Abdi (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta), Conan Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta): "Quantity Regulation and Welfare with Asymmetric Information"

Swati Singla (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi), Vishruti Gupta (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi): "Vertical Differentiation with Partial Share in Revenue and Profit"

Ana Espinola-Arredondo (Washington State University), Felix Munoz-Garcia (Washington State University), Kiriti Kanjilal (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology): "Greener Merger Guidelines: When Do They Matter?"

 

Session 8(g) Topics in Macroeconomics III (Classroom 14)                                   Chair: Ayona Bhattacharjee

 

Pintu Parui (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Klaus Prettner (Vienna University of Economics and Business): "Public Provision of Healthcare and Basic Research: What are the Joint Effects on Economic Growth and Welfare?"

Sumit Agarwal (National University of Singapore), Apoorva Javadekar (Indian School of Business), Shekhar Tomar (Indian School of Business), Gautham Udupa (CAFRAL): "Desirability of Competition in Currency of Invoicing: Evidence from India"

Ayona Bhattacharjee (International Management Institute), Mausumi Das (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), Mukta Jain (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi): "Income Differentials & Rate of Time Preference: A Developing Country Perspective"

 

Session 8(h) Agriculture II (Classroom 22)                                                              Chair: Aranya Chakraborty

 

Nandini Das (Virginia Tech), Anubhab Gupta (Virginia Tech), Binoy Majumder (Social Catalyst Data Analytics), Mahamitra Das (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), Rangaswamy Muniappan (Virginia Tech): "Does Training Farmers on Multiple Technologies Deter Adoption? Evidence from a Farm Management Training Program in Bangladesh"

Neeraj Katewa (Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow), Debdatta Pal (Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow): "Unveiling Effectiveness of Unconditional Cash Transfer on Farm Productivity: Evidence from India"

Aranya Chakraborty (Ahmedabad University), Digvijay Singh Negi (Ashoka University), Rahul Rao (Ahmedabad University): "Inefficiency in Agricultural Production: Do Information Frictions Matter?"

 

Session 8(i) Banking (Classroom 23)                                                                                       Chair: Marcos Sorá

 

Vijay Singh Shekhawat (Reserve Bank of India), Avdhesh Kumar Shukla (Reserve Bank of India), Sonalika Sinha (Reserve Bank of India): "The Impact of Technology on Bank Cost and Efficiency"

Mohammad Zeeshan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): "Banking on Deposits: Can Deposits Drive Risk-Free Maturity Transformation?"

Olivia Bordeu (Princeton University), Gustavo González (Central Bank of Chile), Marcos Sorá (Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics): "Investment Costs across Space: The Role of Banks’ Branch Network"