Program - 20th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development

Anindita Namhata (Presidency University), Zakir Husain (Presidency University), Yujung Julia Lee (Colorado State University), Mousumi Dutta (Presidency University): "Clouded Opportunities: Effects of Dry Season Rainfall on Time Use in Bangladesh"

Shweta Gupta (National Council of Applied Economic Research), Pallavi Choudhuri (National Council of Applied Economic Research), Bijay Chauhan (National Council of Applied Economic Research), Sonalde Desai (University of Maryland; National Council of Applied Economic Research): "Hedging Against Climate Risks: Long-Term vs Circular Migration in Rural India"

Session 1(c) Misallocation (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Kalyani Padmakumar

Harneet Singh (Northwestern University): "The "State" of Misallocation - Decentralisation, Bureaucratic Turnover, and Productivity: Evidence from India"

Shoumitro Chatterjee (Johns Hopkins University; CEPR), Kala Krishna (The Pennsylvania State University; NBER), Kalyani Padmakumar (Florida State University), Yingyan Zhao (George Washington University): "No Country for Dying Firms: Evidence from India"

Session 1(d) Conflict (Auditorium) Chair: Prakarsh Singh

Bharti Nandwani (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Sourish Mustafi (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), Punarjit Roychowdhury (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "Guns and Gains: Human Capital Effects of Exposure to Counterinsurgency Operations"

Prakarsh Singh (Plaksha University), Rohit Duwadi (Plaksha University), Priyanshu Shukla (Plaksha University): "Impact of Terrorism on Capital Investment by Firms: Evidence from Jammu and Kashmir"

Session 1(e) Dynamic Choice and Learning (Classroom 11) Chair: Srijita Ghosh

Deepak Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Saptarshi Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): "Choice Processes: Rationalization and Information"

Srijita Ghosh (Ashoka University): "Complementarity of Social and Private Learning"

Session 1(f) Political Economy: Theory I (Classroom 13) Chair: Shubhro Sarkar

Ravindra Agrawal (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Saptarshi P. Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Jaideep Roy (University of Bath): "Party-Influenced Media, Independent News and Information Traps"

Anirban Kar (Delhi School of Economics), Shubhro Sarkar (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): "Curated Truths: A Model of Media Bias under Social Media Algorithms and Fake News Competition"

Session 1(g) Law and Economics (Classroom 14) Chair: Nitin Kumar Bharti

Resuf Ahmed (Stanford University), Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School): "When Justice Speeds Up: Task Optimization and System-Wide Effects of Digital Justice in Indonesia"

Nitin Kumar Bharti (University of Western Australia; World Inequality Lab), Jonathan Lehne (Stockholm School of Economics): "Justice for All? The Impact of Legal Aid Clinics in India"

Session 1(h) Empirical Trade I (Classroom 22) Chair: Subhasree Sarkar

Ananyo Brahma (University of California, Santa Cruz): "Import Exposure and Labor Market Adjustments: Evidence from India"

Subhasree Sarkar (Ashoka University): "Chinese Import Competition and Labor Compensation: Evidence from India"

Session 1(i) Infrastructure I: Connectivity and Crime (Classroom 23) Chair: Anshika Mathur

Subhasish Dey (University of Warwick), Amulya James (Independent Researcher): "The Connectivity Conundrum: Did the Indian Rural Roads Programme Affect Localised Crime?"

Anshika Mathur (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), Gitanjali Sen (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "Connectivity and Crime: The Impact of Broadband Availability on Sexual Assaults in India"

Session 1(j) Finance I (Classroom 24) Chair: Vidhya Soundararajan

Achyuta Adhvaryu (University of California, San Diego), Anant Nyshadham (University of Michigan), Sowmya Dhanaraj (Good Business Lab), Smit Gade (Good Business Lab), Mansi Ramani (Good Business Lab): "Employer-Facilitated Savings for Low-Income Workers: Uptake, Behavior, and Incentives"

Aishwarya Bhamidipati (University of Virginia), Nishant Kashyap (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Vidhya Soundararajan (Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning), Prasanna Tantri (Indian School of Business): "Credit Supply Shocks, Reallocation, and Real Outcomes"

Parallel Sessions 2 18 December, Thursday 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM

Session 2(a) Education I (Conference Room) Chair: Shatakshee Dhongde

Aparajita Dasgupta (Ashoka University), Anulya P (Ashoka University), Yashveer Singh (FLAME University): "Digital Connectivity and Learning in Rural India During Covid-19"

Tiesta Thakur (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Kaushalendra Kishore (Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning): "Electoral Incentives and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from High-Stakes Examinations in India"

Shatakshee Dhongde (Georgia Institute of Technology), Muchin Bazan (Pontificia Universidad Católica De Chile), Abu Shonchoy (Florida International University): "School Closures and Learning Loss During the Pandemic: Evidence from Rural India"

Session 2(b) Infrastructure II: Roads and Electrification (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Shilpa Aggarwal

Rohan Yadav (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): "Targeted Electricity Subsidies and Rural Development: Evidence from India’s RGGVY Program"

Bharti Nandwani (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Punarjit Roychowdhury (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence; GLO; Monash University), Binay Shankar (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "Rural Roads and Firm Outcomes in India"

Shilpa Aggarwal (Indian School of Business), Ishani Chatterjee (The Analysis Group): "A Road for All Seasons: Market Access and Inter-Temporal Arbitrage in Rural India"

Session 2(c) Gender I (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Raisa Sherif

Kavitha Nambiar (Madras School of Economics), Ekta Selarka (Madras School of Economics): "Board Networks, Gender Diversity, and CSR Engagement"

Prerna Kundu (University of British Columbia), Sankalp Sharma (University of Southern California): "Can Inheritance Reform Change Custom? Evidence on Female Land Ownership from India"

Sofia Amaral (World Bank), Isis Gaddis (World Bank), Shirleen Manzur (World Bank), Jayati Sethi (World Bank), Raisa Sherif (Max Planck Society): "Personal Initiative Skills, Gender Gaps, and Social Norms: Experimental Evidence from Rural India"

Session 2(d) Political Economy I (Auditorium) Chair: Anwesha Bhattacharya

Arghya Banerjee (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta), Somdeep Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta), Manhar Manchanda (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta): "The Curious Curse of the Absentee Voter: New Evidence on Political Parties and Candidate Selection from India"

Hisham Ali Ashraf (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Sisir Debnath (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Sourabh Bikas Paul (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): "Between the Ballots: Understanding Concurrent Elections"

Priyadarshi Amar (University Carlos III of Madrid), Patrick Behrer (World Bank), Anwesha Bhattacharya (Harvard University), Shweta Bhogale (MIT), Bhavya Srivastava (World Bank): "Weathering the Vote: How Temperature Extremes Shape Political Participation in India"

Session 2(e) Social Choice (Classroom 11) Chair: Nicolas Gravel

Bharatee Bhushana Dash (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Thierry Marchant (University of Ghent), Sandip Sarkar (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani): "On the Measurement of Two-Party Competitiveness"

Debabrata Pal (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Keshav Sureka (ETH Zurich): "Majority Rule Under Peer-Influence"

Tom Gargani (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Nicolas Gravel (Aix-Marseille School of Economics): "How Much Is There To Distribute?"

Session 2(f) Political Economy: Theory II (Classroom 13) Chair: Sukanta Bhattacharya

Sukanta Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta), TC Shinali (University of Calcutta): "Ethnic Bias, Commitment and Public Good Provisioning"

Sourav Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta), Ravi Ashok Satpute (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta): "Identity Focus in Political Campaigns"

Sukanta Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta), Dyotona Dasgupta (O.P. Jindal Global University): "Corruption and the Effort Trap: Credibility, Beliefs, and Effective Time Preferences"

Session 2(g) Agriculture I (Classroom 14) Chair: Henrique Pita-Barros

Wyatt Pracht (Kansas State University), Jisang Yu (Korea University), Felipe Dizon (World Bank): "Impact of Access to Irrigation on Agricultural Productivity: Evidence From Community-led Lift Irrigation Schemes in India"

Bivek Tamang (Sikkim University), Rajesh Raj Natarajan SN (Sikkim University): "Geographical Indications and Worker Welfare: Evidence from Darjeeling Tea Gardens"

Henrique Pita-Barros (University of Lisbon), Patrícia Justino (UNU-WIDER), Sam Jones (UNU-WIDER), Margherita Bove (Sapienza University of Rome), Rute Caeiro (University of Oxford): "The Legacy of Coercive Cotton Cultivation in Colonial Mozambique"

Session 2(h) Empirical Trade II (Classroom 22) Chair: Priyam Verma

Supriyo Mondal (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "Geo-Spatial Proximity and Cross Border Effects on Location Choice in a Globalised Economy"

Kashish Arora (Cuhk Business School), Mohit Saharan (Indian School of Business), Shekhar Tomar (Indian School of Business): "Circumventing Tariffs: the Anatomy of Supply Chain Rerouting"

Priyam Verma (Ashoka University), Lorenzo Rotunno (International Monetary Fund), Michele Ruta (International Monetary Fund): "Industrial Policy and Trade Tensions in Strategic Sectors"

Session 2(i) Behavioural Economics I (Classroom 23) Chair: Puneet Arora

Ruchi Avtar (New York University): "Asymmetries in Attribution of Success and Failure"

Kalyani Chaudhuri (Ashoka University): "Gender Similarities in Self-Promotion: The Role of Stereotypes"

Puneet Arora (Management Development Institute): "Who Gains from Self-Promotion? Evaluator Gender and Attribution Processes"

Session 2(j) Topics in Macroeconomics I (Classroom 24) Chair: Aditya Goenka

Manuj Jha (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur), Ganesh Manjhi (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur): "Role of Institutions in the Macroeconomics of Climate Change"

Atika Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Debasis Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): "General Equilibrium Theory of Marketization of Services and Skill Premium in India’s Non-Agricultural Sector"

Aditya Goenka (University of Birmingham), Lin Liu (University of Liverpool), Haokun Pang (Imperial College): "Pandemics and Labour Market Outcomes"

Parallel Sessions 3 18 December, Thursday 04:30 PM– 06:15 PM

Session 3(a) Education II: Gender (Conference Room) Chair: Garima Agarwal

Shreya Jain (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), K. Narayanan (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Tara Shankar Shaw (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay): "Closing the Gap? Effect of Inheritance Law Reforms on Educational Gender Gap among Siblings"

Divyanshu Jain (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Tarun Jain (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad): "When Science Feels Like Math: Quantitative Questions and the Science Gender Gap"

Garima Agarwal (Azim Premji University), Deepayan Sarkar (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics): "Identifying Menstrual Absence Patterns in School Attendance Data"

Session 3(b) Health I (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Leena Bhattacharya

Nilanjan Bhattacharya (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Vishnu Kant (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi; Institute of Economic Growth), Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Banking on Love:How Migrant Children Impact Parental Health Seeking Behaviour"

Suchika Chopra (Krea University): "The Effects of Health Shocks on Time Spent in Home Production"

Shobhit Kulshreshtha (Uppsala University), Leena Bhattacharya (Tilburg University), Padmaja Ayyagari (University of South Florida): "Later Sunset, Better Health?"

Session 3(d) Political Economy II (Auditorium) Chair: Subham Kailthya

Manhar Manchanda (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta): "Women at the Top: Downstream Representation Effects of Female Parliamentarians in India"

Session 3(c) Gender II (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Shagata Mukherjee

Aishwarya S Nambiar (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad), Gaurav Dhamija (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad), Karan Babbar (Plaksha University): "The Southern Paradox: Neighbourhood Level Norms and the Justification of Intimate Partner Violence in India"

Kirti Tater (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "Empowerment at the Intersection: Examining the Interplay between Female Political Representation and the Career Progression of the Female IAS Officers"

Rossella Calvi (Rice University), Sugat Chaturvedi (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Jacob Penglase (San Diego State University): "The Multidimensional Nature of Intra-Household Power"

Shagata Mukherjee (Ashoka University), Misha Sharma (Dvara Research), Niyati Agrawal (Dvara Research), Akarshik Banerjee (George Washington University): "Does Long-Term Access to Microcredit Lead to Women Empowerment? "

Session 3(d) Political Economy II (Auditorium) Chair: Subham Kailthya

Anubhav Jha (Ashoka University), Amanda De Albuquerque (Rede A Ponte), Frederico Finan (University of California, Berkeley), Laura Karpuska (University of Rochester; Insper Institute of Education and Research), Francesco Trebbi (University of California, Berkeley): "Decoupling Taste-Based versus Statistical Discrimination in Elections"

Subham Kailthya (University of Warwick), Minh Tung Le (University of Warwick): "None-of-the-Above Voting and Policy Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India"

Session 3(e) Matching (Classroom 11) Chair: Shantanu Khanna

Antonio Nicolò (University of Padova; University of Manchester), Subhajit Pramanik (University of Padova): "A Dynamic Bargaining Framework for International Kidney Paired Exchange Programs"

Sumit Goel (NYU, Abu Dhabi), Yuki Tamura (Ecole Polytechnique): "TTC Domains"

Vinay Kumar Jha (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Shantanu Khanna (Northeastern University), Jeevant Rampal (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad): "Bureaucrat Cadre Assignment Policies: Theory and Evidence"

Session 3(f) IO: Theory I (Classroom 13) Chair: Venky Venkateswaran

Abhijeet K Mishra (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Prabhat Kumar Sahu (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "Pricing, Technology and Enforcement in Markets with Digital Piracy: A Hotelling Approach"

Suraj Shekhar (Ashoka University): "The Impact of a Spinoff on the Parent Firm: A Model of Double Adverse Selection with Correlated Types"

Sneha Bakshi (Ashoka University): "Sequential Adoption Between Competing Platforms Under Different Regimes"

David Argente (Yale University), Sara Moreira (Northwestern University), Ezra Oberfield (Cornell University), Venky Venkateswaran (NYU, Stern): "Scalable Expertise: How Standardization Drives Scale and Scope"

Session 3(g) Agriculture II (Classroom 14) Chair: D Suganthi

Parth Hirpara (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Hari K Nagarajan (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Abhiman Das (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Vivek Pandey (Institute of Rural Management): "Impact of Proximity to Agricultural Market on Farmer's Production-Side Welfares"

D Suganthi (Reserve Bank of India), GV Nadhanael (Reserve Bank of India), Biswajeet Mohanty (Reserve Bank of India): "Impact of Government Supply Intervention on Market Prices: A Study of Export Ban and Open Market Sale of Wheat"

Session 3(h) IO: Empirical I (Classroom 22) Chair: Ritam Chaurey

Sai Vivek Kandimalla (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Kunal Dasgupta (Indian Institute of Mangement, Bangalore): "Spatial Implications of Industrial Policy"

Amrit Amirapu (University of Kent), Malavika Thirumalai Ananthakrishnan (Azim Premji University), Alexander Klein (University of Sussex): "Industry Agglomeration in a Developing Economy: Evidence from India"

Ritam Chaurey (Johns Hopkins University), Gaurav Nayyar (World Bank), Siddharth Sharma (World Bank), Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University): "Social Learning among Urban Manufacturing Firms: Energy-Efficient Motors in Bangladesh"

Session 3(i) Behavioural Economics II (Classroom 23) Chair: Ashish Sachdeva

Ashish Sachdeva (Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur), Jeeva Somasundaram (IE Business School), Kamal Kant Sharma (Indian School of Business): "The Power of Autonomy: Self-Selected Goals Outperform Assigned Goals in Reducing Mobile Phone Usage"

K. Pun Winichakul (Smith College), Guillermo Lezama (Amazon, US), Priyoma Mustafi (Ahmedabad University), Marissa Lepper (Texas A&M University), Alistair Wilson (University of Pittsburgh), David Danz (University of Pittsburgh), Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburgh): "Effect Size, Experimenter Demand and Inference"

Ashish Sachdeva (Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur), Lawrence Jin (National University of Singapore), Jeeva Somasundaram (IE Business School): "Using Dynamic Financial Incentives to Foster Walking Habit"

Session 3(j) Macroeconomics: Theory (Classroom 24) Chair: Ayushi BajajAmol (Ashoka University), Erzo Luttmer (University of Minnesota): "A Stochastic Bubble Forest"

Sanjay R Singh (University of California, Davis; Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco): "A Behavioral Foundation for the Investment Wedge"

Ayushi Bajaj (Monash University): "Trade, Liquidity, and Monetary Spillovers Under Dollar Dominance"

Parallel Sessions 4 19 December, Friday 11:15 AM – 01:00 PM

Session 4(a) Education III (Conference Room) Chair: Marcos Agurto Adrianzén

Minali Grover (Indian Institute of Management, Indore), Ajay Sharma (Indian Institute of Management, Indore): "From Classrooms to Careers: The Impact of Fee Reimbursement Scheme on Education and Employment"

Akanksha Aggarwal (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Bharti Nandwani (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): "Shaping Women’s Aspirations through Information and Motivation: Experimental Evidence from India"

Marcos Agurto Adrianzén (Universidad De Piura), Danila Serra (Texas A&M University), Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech): "Influencing Girls’ Educational Choices Through Social Media Interventions: Evidence from Peru"

Session 4(b) Health II: Children (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Karthik Muralidharan

Shampa Bhattacharjee (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), Roopal Jain (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), Arka Roy Chaudhuri (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "Demonetization and Child Health: Evidence from India"

Priyanka Sarda Tadikonda (Boston College; Good Business Lab): "Birth Endowments and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Structural Estimates from a Collective Household Model"

Jeffrey Weaver (University of Southern California), Sandip Sukhtankar (University of Virginia), Paul Niehaus (University of California, San Diego), Karthik Muralidharan (University of California, San Diego): "Maternal Cash Transfers for Gender Equity and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India"

Session 4(c) Gender III: Labour (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Smit Gade

Mansi Wadhwa (Isaac Centre for Public Policy, Ashoka University): "Paid Family Leave and Work Flexibility: The Differential Effects of California Paid Family Leave on Women’s Work across Occupations"

Md Moshi Ul Alam (Clark University), Steven Lehrer (Queen's University; NBER), Nuno Sousa Pereira (University of Porto): "Labor Market Consequences of Pay-Equity Laws"

Rolly Kapoor (Independent Researcher), Smit Gade (Good Business Lab): "Together in Search: Experimental Evidence from Coordinating Travel among Women Job-Seekers in Urban India"

Session 4(d) Public Economics I (Auditorium) Chair: M. R. Sharan

Pallavi Prabhakar (Norwegian School of Economics), Diwakar Kishore (London School of Economics; Indian School of Business): "The Politics of Perception: Information, Misbeliefs, and Civic Action in India"

Torsha Chakravorty (University of California, San Diego), Parminder Pal Singh Sandhu (Government of India): "Brokers in Public Service Delivery"

M. R. Sharan (University of Maryland), Niharika Singh (University of Notre Dame): "Collective Action and Public Service Delivery: Evidence from India"

Session 4(e) Networks (Classroom 11) Chair: Sudipta Sarangi

Anuj Bhowmik (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Saptarshi P. Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Iman Kundu (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Sandipan Saha (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata): "Information and Misinformation in Networks"

Vilok Jitendra Taori (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Optimal Sequential Assignment with Capacity Constrained Verification"

Christophe Bravard (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), Jacques Durieu (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech), Corrine Touati (Univ. Grenoble Alpes): "Influence and Counter-Influence in Networks"

Session 4(f) IO: Theory II (Classroom 13) Chair: Debapriya Sen

Arindam Paul (Jadavpur University), Rajat Acharyya (Jadavpur University): "Public Information Base and Consumer Welfare with Firm Level Ex-Ante Asymmetry Under Quality Uncertainty"

Swapnendu Banerjee (Jadavpur University), Arijit Mukherjee (University of Nottingham), Sougata Poddar (University of Iowa): "Product Innovation and Pro-Competitive Horizontal Merger with Network Externalities"

Ramakanta Patra (Cardiff Metropolitan University), Lydia Ray (Columbus State University), Debapriya Sen (Toronto Metropolitan University), Giorgos Stamatopoulos (University of Crete): "A Duopoly Model of Open Source and Proprietary Products"

Session 4(g) Environment I (Classroom 14) Chair: Isabella Gupta

Lavanya (Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow), Neeraj Katewa (Mahindra University), Debdatta Pal (Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow), Shreya Mishra (O.P. Jindal Global University): "Effect of Environmental Policy on Forest Cover: Evidence from India's National Forest Policy"

Ishita Varma (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): "Forest Rights, Dietary Diversity and Nutritional Security of Tribal Communities: Evidence from India"

Sudatta Ray (National University of Singapore; Yale-NUS College), Isabella Gupta (National University of Singapore): "Left Out in Crowds: How Spatial Segregation, Aquifer Characteristics, and Mechanized Pumping Energy Shape Drinking Water Access in Rural India"

Session 4(h) IO: Empirical II (Classroom 22) Chair: Irma Clots-Figueras

Tanmoy Majilla (Indian Institute of Manangement, Ahmedabad), Anisha Shukla (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad): "Does Market Power-Breed Inefficiency? Evidence from Firm-Level Inventory Dynamics"

Shresth Garg (University of Pennsylvania), Gaurav Khanna (University of California, San Diego), Sagar Saxena (University of Pennsylvania): "The Customer Is Always Right: Client-Driven Product Introduction and Firm Growth"

Amrit Amirapu (University of Kent), Irma Clots-Figueras (University of Kent), Bansi Malde (City St George's University of London): "Digital Lifelines: Mobile Information and Peer Networks for Small Businesses in India"

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

Sakshi Upadhyay (Skidmore College): "Voluntary Public Goods Provision using a Coalition Mechanism: Some Experimental Results"

Bradley Ruffle (McMaster University), William Zhang (University of California, Berkeley) : "Cheating on a Budget"

Sanket Sen (University of Auckland), Eugenio Levi (Link University), Abhijit Ramalingam (Applachian State University), Ananish Chaudhuri (University of Auckland): "Economic Inequality, Social Capital and the Role of Merit and Luck: An Experimental Study"

Session 4(j) Macroeconomics: Indian Experience I (Classroom 24) Chair: Kajal Lahiri

Snigdha Kalra (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Sargam Gupta (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): "Digitisation of Tax Payments: A General Equilibrium Analysis"

Vivek Gupta (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), Fiorella Pizzolon (Hamilton College), Aditi Singh (Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning): "Identifying Hand-To-Mouth Households: Evidence from India"

Karan Bhasin (University at Albany), Kajal Lahiri (University at Albany), Prakash Loungani (Johns Hopkins University): "Dynamics of Macroeconomic Uncertainty in India using Density Forecasts"

Parallel Sessions 5 19 December, Friday 02:15 PM – 04:00 PM

Session 5(a) Education IV (Conference Room) Chair: Abhijeet Singh

Palaash Bhargava (University of Chicago), Madhavi Jha (Harvard University), Dashleen Kaur (University of British Columbia), Nikhil Kumar (Harvard University), Tarang Tripathi (University of California, San Diego): "Learning from Peers, at Scale: Experimental Evidence from a Peer Tutoring Intervention in Bihar"

Palaash Bhargava (University of Chicago): "Popularity and Student Networks: Trade-offs in Resolving Social Isolation through Deskmate Assignments"

Karthik Muralidharan (University of California, San Diego; NBER; J-PAL), Abhijeet Singh (Stockholm School of Economics; J-PAL): "Adapting for Scale: Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India"

Session 5(b) Labour II (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Nikita Sangwan

Raymond He (University of Texas, Austin), Suryansh Upmanyu (University of Texas, Austin): "Effects of Pay Transparency Laws on the Labor Market"

Sarthak Basu (Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal), Subash Sasidharan (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras): "Labour Market Deregulation and Reallocation: Evidence from India"

Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi; IZA, Bonn), Soubhagya Sahoo (Higher School of Economics University), Nikita Sangwan (Queen's University, Belfast): "Informing the Search: A Field Experiment in an Urban Labor Market"

Session 5(c) Gender IV (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Anaya Dam

Rikhia Bhukta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur): "Factories and Fertility: The Impact of Manufacturing Growth on Son Preference"

Minu Philip (Stanford University): "Who Are Sex Selecting, and When?"

Anaya Dam (University of Oxford; Utrecht University), Karlijn Morsink (Utrecht University; Wageningen University; Cornell University), Rachel Cassidy (Institute For Fiscal Studies; World Bank), Wendy Janssens (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Tinbergen Institute; Institute of Global Health & Development), Umair Kiani (Centre For Economic Research in Pakistan): "Targeting Men, Women or Both to Reduce Child Marriage"

Session 5(d) Political Economy III (Auditorium) Chair: Amrita Dhillon

Asad Tariq (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): "Constituencies of Change: Electoral Redistricting and Public Goods Provision in India"

Anirvan Chowdhury (University of Louisville), Aaditya Dar (Independent Researcher), Varun K. (Harvard University), Chinmaya Kumar (Azim Premji University): "Social Engineering through Schools"

Sabyasachi Das (Ahmedabad University), Amrita Dhillon (King's College, London), Moses Shayo (King's College, London): "When Representation Fuels Protest: Evidence from India"

Session 5(e) Information Economics (Classroom 11) Chair: Ayush Pant

Satyam Kumar Rai (Ashoka University), Suraj Shekhar (Ashoka University): "Cheap Talk with Multiple Senders and Receivers: Information Transmission in Ethnic Conflicts"

Vasundhara Mallick (European University Institute): "How Markets Disrupt Mediated Trade"

Srijita Ghosh (Ashoka University), Ayush Pant (Ashoka University): "Persuasion Through Content Design"

Session 5(f) Applied Micro Theory I (Classroom 13) Chair: Rajiv Sethi

Ria Mongia (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Prabal Roy Chowdhury (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Outgroup Aversion and Optimal Labour Hiring: Segregation vs. Diversification"

Mukesh Eswaran (University of British Columbia): "Religious Identity of Management Teams and Firm Productivity: An Economic Case for Embracing Workplace Diversity "

Dyotona Dasgupta (O.P. Jindal Global University), Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University): "Educational Standards and Parental Investment"

Session 5(g) Environment II (Classroom 14) Chair: Deepti

Balasurya Sivakumar (Oslo Metropolitan University): "Coal Power Expansion and Long-Term Human Capital in India"

Massimo Filippini (ETH Zurich; Universit`A Della Svizzera Italiana), Keshav Sureka (ETH Zurich): "Negotiating Clean Energy: Women’s Bargaining Power and Impact of PMUY"

Deepti (Ahmedabad University), Ravi (Ahmedabad University): "Powering Electricity, Weakening Minds? Coal Plant Exposure and Mental Health"

Session 5(h) Finance II (Classroom 22) Chair: Isha Agarwal

Lavanya Kosuri (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Tara Shankar Shaw (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay): "Creditors' Rights and Signed Earnings Management: Evidence from India"

Pulak Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Nicola Limodio (Bocconi University), Nishant Vats (Washington University in St Louis): "Household Portfolio and Deposit Insurance: Implications for the Supply of Safe Assets"

Tirupam Goel (Bank for International Settlements), Ulf Lewrick (Bank for International Settlements; University of Basel), Isha Agarwal (University of British Columbia): "Making Stablecoins Stable(r): Can Regulation Help?"

Session 5(i) Macro: Monetary Economics (Classroom 23) Chair: Vimal Balasubramaniam

Kaustubh (Reserve Bank of India), Abhishek Ranjan (Reserve Bank of India), Pawan Gopalakrishnan (Reserve Bank of India): "Estimating the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) with Fat-Tailed Events"

Swati Singh (University of Houston): "Inflation Targeting and Anchored Inflation Expectations: The Role of Central Bank Credibility"

Vimal Balasubramaniam (Queen Mary University of London), Karthik Narayan A.S (University of Oxford): "Financial Inclusion and Monetary Policy: Evidence from India"

Session 5(j) Topics in Macroeconomics II (Classroom 24) Chair: Yogeshwar Bharat

Samiran Dutta (Paris School of Economics; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): "The Reserve Army of Labor: Dual Labor Markets and Firm Dynamics"

Vedant Agarwal (Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning): "Optimal Deposit Insurance in a Macroeconomic Model with Runs"

Yogeshwar Bharat (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), Suleyman Faruk Gozen (University of Bristol), David Hong (The University of Edinburgh), Mehmet Furkan Karaca (University of Essex): "Banking Reform, Credit Allocation, and Local Real Effects: Evidence from India"

Parallel Sessions 6 20 December, Saturday 11:15 AM – 01:00 PM

Session 6(a) Education V (Conference Room) Chair: Pradeep Kumar Choudhury

Tomohisa Miyamoto (Wageningen University and Research; Aflatoun International), Esther Gehrke (Wageningen University and Research), Joost De Laat (Wageningen University and Research): "Can Life Skills Foster Child Learning?"

Mridul Joshi (Stanford University), Jalnidh Kaur (University of Glasgow), Lena Song (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): "Improving Digital Habits through Education: Experimental Evidence from India"

Alp Sungu (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), Pradeep Kumar Choudhury (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen (University of Copenhagen): "Removing Phones from Classrooms Improves Academic Performance"

Session 6(b) Health III (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Md Azharuddin Akhtar

Vivek Pandey (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Jayashree Dilip Bhusare (Institute of Rural Management, Anand), Shantanu Kumar (World Bank): "Context Informed Rationality, SHG Platforms, and Health Behavior: Evidence from a Peer Counselling Field Experiment "

Shashank Misra (Tilburg University), Shobhit Kulshreshtha (Uppsala University): "Impact of Air Pollution on Birth Outcomes: Causal Evidence from India"

Md Azharuddin Akhtar (Institute for Human Development), Malik Altaf Hussain (George Mason University): "Informed Choice Under Risks: Prevention-Treatment Trade-off in Context of Cancer"

Session 6(c) Gender V: Labour (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Ritika Gupta

Sarvnipun Kaur (Plaksha University), Anshika Arora (Plaksha University), Prakarsh Singh (Plaksha University): "Cinderella No More: Night Shift Bans and Women’s Employment in India"

Pragati (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), Sounak Thakur (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta): "Beyond Quotas: How Affirmative Action Shapes Marriage, Fertility, and Women’s Work in India"

Ritika Gupta (Wageningen University): "Equity Conundrum: Unintended Consequences of College-Level Affirmative Action on the Labor Market"

Session 6(d) Public Economics II (Auditorium) Chair: Bhanu Gupta

Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Prabhat Barnwal (Michigan State University), Chrisma D’Souza (Cornell University): "The Long-Term Impact of Transfer Program Design on Consumption"

Priyama Majumdar (University of Warwick), Elaheh Fatemipour (University of Warwick): "Government by Discussion: Evidence from the Indian Parliament"

Bhanu Gupta (Ashoka University), Tejaswi Velayudhan (University of California, Irvine), Prince Dhawan (Department of Trade and Taxes, Government of NCTD), Ankur Garg (Department of Trade and Taxes, Government of NCTD): "Limits to Vat Self-Enforcement: Role of Network Frictions in Compliance"

Session 6(e) Information Design (Classroom 11) Chair: V Bhaskar

Hargungeet Singh (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur): "Designing Information About Co-Workers' Successes"

Henrique De Oliveira (Sao Paulo School of Economics FGV), Rohit Lamba (Cornell University): "Dynamic Information Design via Deviation Rules"

V Bhaskar (University of Texas, Austin): "Robust Information Design"

Session 6(f) Applied Micro Theory II (Classroom 13) Chair: Ananya Goyal

Rajit Biswas (Centre For Development Studies), Aishwarya Desai (Madras School of Economics), Neelanjan Sen (Madras School of Economics): "To License or To Cross-Hold? An Analysis of Partial Passive Ownership and Alternate Forms of Technology Licensing"

Anjali Gaur (Delhi School of Economics), Prof. Dibyendu Maiti (Delhi School of Economics): "Could Carbon Tariff Encourage Technology Transfer?"

Ananya Goyal (Queen Mary University of London): "Competition and Preventive Investments in Climate Insurance"

Session 6(g) Environment III (Classroom 14) Chair: Anant Sudarshan

Sanjana Ghosh (Northwestern University), Elena Stella (Northwestern University): "Losing the Shield: How Political Connections Shape Environmental Enforcement"

Priyanka Dutta (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Shresth Garg (University of Pennsylvania), Sagar Saxena (University of Pennsylvania): "To Reverse or Not to Reverse? Auction Format and Renewable Energy Procurement in India"

Anant Sudarshan (University of Warwick), Fiona Burlig (University of Chicago): "Paying for Power"

Session 6(h) Indian Manufacturing (Classroom 22) Chair: Pavel Chakraborty

Prabin Chauhan Chhetri (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras), Rajesh Raj S Natarajan (Sikkim University): "Caught in the Web? How Regulatory Reforms Shape Firm Performance in India"

Pierre Dubois (Toulouse School of Economics), Debi Prasad Mohapatra (University of Massachusetts Amherst): "Regulating Trade Margins and Consumer Welfare: Evidence from Cardiac Products in India"

Pavel Chakraborty (University of Bath), Sankalp Mathur (Centre for Advanced Financial Research And Learning), Sujaya Sircar (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), Rubina Verma (Georgetown University): "R&D Tax Credit and Product Quality vs. Scope"

Session 6(i) Behavioural Economics IV (Classroom 23) Chair: Ishita Chatterjee

Florian Sichart (Princeton University), Priyadarshi Amar (University Carlos III - Madrid; Institute Carlos III-Juan March), Sumitra Badrinathan (American University), Simon Chauchard (University Carlos III - Madrid; Institute Carlos III-Juan March): "Valuing Accuracy in a Disinformation-Rich Environment: Experimental Evidence from Indian Youth"

Neha Agarwal (University of Otago), Stephen Knowles (University of Otago): "Do Donors to Charity Really Not Care About Effectiveness?"

Simon Chang (University of Western Australia; IZA), Ishita Chatterjee (University of Western Australia), Li Yu (Central University of Finance and Economics): "Helping Under Haze: Evidence from Lost-Letter Field Experiments in Beijing and Delhi"

Session 6(j) Macroeconomics: International (Classroom 24) Chair: Amartya Lahiri

Giovanni Ricco (Ecole Polytechnique; University of Warwick; OFCE-Sciencespo; CEPR), Emanuele Savini (University of Warwick), Anshumaan Tuteja (Ashoka University): "Monetary Policy, Information and Country Risk Shocks in the Euro Area"

Alok Johri (Mcmaster University), Shunzhe Zhong (Mcmaster University): "Irreversibility, Lumpy Investment, and the Dynamics of Public Capital and Sovereign Debt"

Paul Beaudry (University of British Columbia; NBER), Ippei Fujiwara (Keio University), Yasuo Hirosi (Keio University), Amartya Lahiri (University of British Columbia): "The Unsettling Behavior of Exchange Rates Under Inflation Targeting"

Parallel Sessions 7 20 December, Saturday 02:15 PM – 04:00 PM

Session 7(a) Education VI (Conference Room) Chair: Soham Sahoo

Nikhitha Mary Mathew (National University of Singapore): "Closing Schools, Widening Gaps: The Unintended Consequences of School Consolidation Policies in India"

John Bodian Klopfer (University of Hong Kong): "Labor Supply, Learning Time, and the Efficiency of School Spending: Evidence from School Finance Reforms"

Soham Sahoo (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Shweta Sogani (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore): "Long-Term Impacts of School Expansion on Cognition, Economic Mobility and Mental Health: Evidence from India"

Session 7(b) Health IV (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Nikita Sangwan

Subarna Banerjee (University of Göttingen), Sebastian Vollmer (University of Göttingen): "Weighing in on Service Delivery: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India"

Sawan Rathi (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Chirantan Chatterjee (University of Sussex), Pradeep Chintagunta (University of Chicago): "Follow the Nudge but Hedge Your Risk: Physician Decision Making under Uncertainty"

Dweepobotee Brahma (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur), Nikita Sangwan (Queen's University, Belfast): "The Un‘Healthy’ Gaps: Evidence on Gendered Faultlines in Digital Healthcare Services"

Session 7(c) Gender VI: Female Labour Force Participation (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Margaret Triyana

Ankush Asri (Chr. Michelsen Institute), Viola Asri (Chr. Michelsen Institute): "The Leaky Pipeline: When Career Expectations Meet Social Norms"

Kaivan Munshi (Yale University), Swapnil Singh (Bank of Lithuania; Kaunas University of Technology): "Social Status, Economic Development, and Female Labor Force Non-Participation"

Maurizio Bussolo (World Bank), Jonah M. Rexer (World Bank), Margaret Triyana (World Bank): "Education, Social Norms, and the Marriage Penalty: Evidence from South Asia"

Session 7(d) Political Economy IV (Auditorium) Chair: Kartikeya Batra

S. K. Ritadhi (Occidental College), Jayati Gupta (Ashoka University): "Bank Credit as a Constituent Service? Evidence from Indian State Legislators"

Siddharth George (National University of Singapore), Nandini Gupta (University of Oxford), M R Sharan (University of Maryland): "Who, Not How Many: Local Council Design and Workfare Delivery in Rural India"

Kartikeya Batra (Azim Premji University): "Party Size and Candidate Wealth: Evidence from India"

Session 7(e) Topics in Micro Theory (Classroom 11) Chair: Shurojit Chatterji

Parishmita Boruah (Rangapara College, Sonitpur), Surajit Borkotokey (Dibrugarh University), Rajnish Kumar (Queen’s Business School): "Committee-Structured Games in a Cooperative Framework"

Tarun Sabarwal (University of Kansas): "Order Nearest Comparative Statics of Equilibria"

Shurojit Chatterji (Singapore Management University), Atsushi Kajii (Kwansei Gakuin University): "Rich by Accident: The Second Welfare Theorem with a Redundant Asset under Imperfect Foresight"

Session 7(f) Mechanism Design (Classroom 13) Chair: Aditya Aradhye

Ujjwal Kumar (University of Bonn), Souvik Roy (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata): "On the Existence of EFX Allocations for Goods"

Sulagna Dasgupta (Cornell University): "Screening Knowledge"

Aditya Aradhye (Ashoka University), David Lagziel (Ben-Gurion University of The Negev), Eilon Solan (Tel Aviv University): "Mechanism Design with Spiteful Agents"

Session 7(g) Applied Micro Theory III (Classroom 14) Chair: Brishti Guha

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay (University of Birmingham), Tamoghna Bose (Bennett University), Sebastian Cortes-Corrales (University of Birmingham), Aditya Goenka (University of Birmingham): "Efficient Networks in the Presence of External Disruption"

Ratul Das Chaudhury (University of Nottingham), Abhinaba Nandy (DePauw University): "Personalised Incentives: Segregation in a Platform with Networks"

Parimal Bag (National University of Singapore), Brishti Guha (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "Mandatory Arrest vs. Arrest with Warrant, Domestic Violence and False Accusation"

Session 7(h) Caste and Religion (Classroom 22) Chair: Ashwini Deshpande

Taha Ibrahim Siddiqui: "Identity and Discretionary Spending: Causal Evidence of Religious Bias in India's Model Village Scheme"

Laurens Cherchye (Ku Leuven), Bharti Kumari (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Saptarshi Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): "Does Caste have a Cost? Social Stigma, Remarriage Gain, and Household Resource Allocation"

Ashwini Deshpande (Ashoka University), Veronique Gille (University Paris, Dauphine), Rajesh Ramachandran (Monash University), Andis Sofianos (Durham University): "Merit, Identity, and Redistribution: Experimental Evidence on Affirmative Action"

Session 7(i) Topics in Macroeconomics III (Classroom 23) Chair: Ronit Mukherji

Sayantan Roy (Purdue University): "County Population Size and the Employment Effects of Fiscal Policy"

Suranjana Kundu (Paris School of Economics; CESS): "Lower for Longer Monetary Policy and Economic Outcomes During Covid-19 Pandemic"

Ronit Mukherji (Ashoka University), Lalit Contractor (Ashoka University), Abhishek Rai (Ashoka University): "Automation and Employment Recovery After the Great Recession"

Session 7(j) Macro: Emerging Economies (Classroom 24) Chair: Abhishek Kumar

Brian Daza (University of Michigan): "Government Spending Multipliers and Distribution of Commodity Booms in the Spatial Economy"

Dony Alex (O. P. Jindal Global University): "Trend Inflation and the Phillips Curve in Emerging Economies"

Abhishek Kumar (University of Southampton): "Monetary Transmission and Price Puzzle: Evidence from High-Frequency Identification"

Parallel Sessions 8 20 December, Saturday 04:30 PM – 06:15 PM

Session 8(a) Education VII (Conference Room) Chair: Moses Shayo

Tanika Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta), Somdeep Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta), Shubham Ojha (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta): "Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory English Education: Evidence from India"

Nisha Mishra (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), Sukumar Vellakkal (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur): "Mother’s Education and Child Nutrition: Evidence of Intergenerational Effect from a School Cycle Program, India"

Victor Lavy (University of Warwick) and Moses Shayo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): "When Teachers Break the Rules: Grading Misconduct, Student Cheating, and Community Structure"

Session 8(b) Health V (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Manoj Mohanan

Sneha Nimmagadda (University of Southern California): "Parental Misperceptions on Child Nutrition in India"

Eric Edmonds (Dartmouth College), Priya Mukherjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Nikhilesh Prakash (Stockholm School of Economics), Nishith Prakash (Northeastern University), Shwetlena Sabarwal (World Bank): "Talk Therapy and Human Capital in Adolescence: Evidence from a Low-Resource Setting"

Henry Cust (Duke University), Jennifer Lansford (Duke University), Arnab Mukherji (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Marcos Vera-Hernández (University College, London), Joanna Maselko (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Manoj Mohanan (Duke University): "Parental Mental Health and Child Vaccination in India: A Sehat Data Study"

Session 8(c) Gender VII: Female Labour Force Participation (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Kanika Mahajan

Mahima Vasishth (Center for Effective Governance of Indian States): "Employment Booms and Infant Health: Evidence from the Ready-Made Garment Sector in Bangladesh"

Rakesh Banerjee (University of Exeter), Tushar Bharati (University of Western Australia), Tattwachaitanya Riddhi Maharaj (Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira): "FDI and Female Employment in India"

Pubali Chakraborty (Bates College), Kanika Mahajan (Ashoka University): "Scaling Up to Decrease the Divide: Firm Size and Female Employment"

Session 8(d) Political Economy V (Auditorium) Chair: Aditya Dasgupta

Utkarsh Choudhary (Manipal Academy of Higher Education), Sumit Mishra (Krea University): "Representation Alone? Revisiting PESA’s Role in Forest Conservation in India’s Scheduled Areas"

Caitlin Brown (Laval University), Aruni Mitra (University of Manchester), Sudhir Singh (University of Rochester): "Female Leaders and Welfare in a Water-Scarce Economy"

Aditya Dasgupta (University of California): "Technology as Tool of Government: Evidence from Satellite-Based Environmental Enforcement in India"

Session 8(e) Decision Theory (Classroom 11) Chair: Shasikanta Nandeibam

Tanay Bhatt (University of Texas, Austin): "Uncertainty, Single Crossing Property, and Stochastic Choice Data"

Aishwarya Harichandran (Indian Institute of Management, Sirmaur), Saptarshi Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Nozomu Muto (Hitotsubashi University), Ruhi Sonal (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology ): "Dynamic Random Choice with Inattention"

Shasikanta Nandeibam (University of Bath): "Preference for Flexibility and Stochastic Preference"

Session 8(f) Information Transmission (Classroom 13) Chair: Falak Arrora

Sanjari Kalantri (University of Oxford): "Information Provision with Endogenous States"

Prerna Khanna (Delhi School of Economics), Parikshit Ghosh (Delhi School of Economics): "Multi-Task Delegation and Information Transmission"

Falak Arrora (University of Warwick): "Screening Information"

Session 8(g) Environment IV (Classroom 14) Chair: Emmanuel Murray Leclair

Anu K Jose (IISER Bhopal), Biswajit Patra (IISER Bhopal): "Policy Signalling and Firm Perception: Emission Intensity Reduction Potential of Carbon Credit Trading Scheme"

Pankaj Kumar (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Kanishka Kacker (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "The Personal Foundations of Environmental Stewardship"

Emmanuel Murray Leclair (University of Melbourne): "Balancing Production and Carbon Emissions with Fuel Substitution"

Session 8(h) Empirical Methods (Classroom 22) Chair: Abhimanyu Gupta

Vivek Pandey (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Debanjan Das (Institute of Rural Management, Anand), Elangbam Kyamba (University of California, Santa Cruz): "Autonomy-Supportive Interviewer Feedback and Data Quality: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in India"

Jessica Leight (International Food Policy Research Institute), Viola Asri (Chr. Michelsen Institute), Taisuke Imai (Osaka University): "Pathways from Registration to Publication: Evidence from the AEA RCT Registry"

Margherita Comola (Universite Paris-Saclay; Paris School of Economics), Camila Comunello (University of Essex), Abhimanyu Gupta (Queen's University, Canada; University of Essex): "A Nonparametric Test for Social Spillovers and Interference"

Session 8(i) Economic Growth (Classroom 23) Chair: R S Vaidyanathan

Andrei Dementiev (HSE University), Anastasia Rozenson (HSE University): "Artificial Intelligence and Factor Substitutability"

Spandan Roy (Iowa State University): "Endogenous Human Capital Growth and Structural Transformation"

R S Vaidyanathan (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Meeta Keswani Mehra (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "Leveraging Firm Entry Policy to Drive Innovation, Growth, and Income Distribution in the Presence of Entry Threats and Rent-Seeking"

Session 8(j) Macroeconomics: Indian Experience II (Classroom 24) Chair: Urvi Neelakantan

Mohammad Asad Malik (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "The Long and Winding Road to Growth: Terrain, History, and Economic Development in India"

Juan Herreño (University of California, San Diego; Noémie Pinardon-Touati), Malte Thie (Université Paris-Dauphine – PSL; CEPII): "How Steep is the Phillips Curve in Developing Economies? A Sufficient Statistics Approach and Estimates for India"

Arpita Chatterjee (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Anand Chopra (University of Liverpool), Urvi Neelakantan (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Gautham Udupa (Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning): "Household Consumption Insurance in India"