Martin Ravallion Symposium on Poverty and Inequality, 9th and 10th November 2023

Role of Circumstance and Effort in Inequality of Learning Outcomes: A Study on India
Sandip Sarkar, Xavier Institute of Management, India

Intra-household Engel Curves
Sylvie Lambert, Paris School of Economics, France

Limits to Growth? Understanding the Social Dimensions of Economic Life in Malaysia
Niaz Asadullah, Monash University, Australia

The Effects of Communal Violence on Women’s Marital Outcomes
Divya Pandey, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie))

Participatory Theater Empowers Women: Evidence from India
Jyotsna Jalan, The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India

Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development: Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees
Asad Islam, Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability, Monash University, Australia

Women at work: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban Djibouti
Emanuela Galasso, The World Bank,

The Role of Welfare Benefits and Declining Regional Clientelism in the Rise of a Right-wing Nationalist Party in India
Pushkar Maitra, Monash University, Australia

Nudging Marriage Norms through Conditional Transfers
Rohini Somanathan, Delhi School of Economics, India

Poverty and Inequality in India: An Exploration of Undercurrents at the Village Level
Peter Lanjouw, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands

Electricity Consumption as a Proxy for Poverty
Dileni Gunewardena, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

What Do We Know About Poverty Estimates in India After 2011-12
Himanshu, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Improving Street Food Safety: Are Better Infrastructure and Training Sufficient?
Caitlin Brown, University of Manchester, USA

Food Stamps and America's Poorest
Dean Jolliffe, The World Bank,

Panel discussants: Jean Dreze, Ranchi University, India, Emanuela Galasso, The World Bank, Binayak Sen, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Bangladesh, Sylvie Lambert, Paris School of Economics, France, Himanshu, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, Achin Chakraborty, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata, India, Rinku Murgai, The World Bank, Shekhar Shah, Indian School of Public Policy, India, Shubham Chaudhuri, The World Bank, Peter Lanjouw, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Rohini Somanathan, Delhi School of Economics, India


Annual National Conference and R.C. Dutt Lecture Series, 30th - 31th August 2022

Trade, Technology Transfer and Welfare Gains
Rajat Acharyya, Jadavpur University, India

Notching Really Matters: Effect of Third-party Audit on Tax Compliance of Firms
Bhanu Gupta, Ashoka University, India

R.C. Dutt Lecture : Tropical Development: The environmental origins of world inequality
Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Foreign Intermediate Inputs, Import Intermediaries and Aggregate Productivity
Kunal Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India

The Role of Mothers-in-Law in Determining Women's Work: Evidence from India
Divya Pandey, Krea University, India


Annual International Conference on Public Finance and Public Policy, 28th - 29th January 2020

The Future in Mind: Experimental Evidence on the Psychological Challenges of Poverty
Stefan Dercon, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Political Economy of Identity Formation: Some Theory and Evidence from India
Sourav Bhattacharya, IIM, Calcutta

Some Behavioural Economics Based Insights on Legal Policy
Brishti Guha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Sexual Violence: Exploring the Truth Behind False Reports and Underreporting
Pritha Dev, IIM, Ahmedabad

Association between Child Health and Family Income: Is it Casual?
Kajal Lahiri, SUNY, Albany, USA

Does Inflation Targeting Anchor Inflation Expectations? Evidence from India
Shekhar Tomar, ISB, Hyderabad

Markups, Quality, and Trade Costs
Natalie Chen, The University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Information led Trade: The Role of Non-Marketed Complementaries in Preferences
Sattwik Santra, Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy

Shadow Education, Intra-Household Resource Allocation and Educational Achievements in India
Tanmoy Majilla, Erasmus University, The Netherlands


ERC Sponsored National Conference On Labour Market Issues in India, 26th August 2019

The Minimum Wage System in India
Xavier Estupinan, International Labour Organization, Delhi

Occupational Choices and Earnings Distribution in India
Tirthatanmoy Das, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

The Employment Effects of Technological Innovation, Consumption, and Participation in Global Value Chains: Evidence from Developing Asia
Elisabetta Gentile, Asian Development Bank, Manila


National Conference On Public Finance, Public Economics and Public Policy, 15th March 2019

Bertrand-Cournot Comparison for Oligopolistic Industry with Vertically Integrated Firm
Arindam Paul, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta

Forest Governance and Land Disputes in India
Bharti Nandwani, IGIDR, Mumbai

The Impact of a Macroeconomic Crisis on Child Schooling Outcomes in Indonesia
Anisha Sharma, Ashoka University, Haryana

Predicting Wheat Futures Prices in India
Raushan Kumar, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi

Closure Rules in Auctions: An Experiment
Vishruti Gupta, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi


International Conference on Public Finance and Public Policy, 7th - 9th January 2019

Optimal Opacity in International Negotiations
Marcel Thum, Ifo Institute, Dresden

Revisiting the Issue of Bribery on Firm Performance in India: A Political Economy Perspective
Ritika Jain, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum

Public Institutions in a Developing Country: Do Behavioral Biases Affect Perceptions about Efficacy
Somdeep Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Conspicuous Consumption and Status Effect: An Empirical Study on India
Sattwik Santra, Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy

Policy Analysis with a Structural-Reduced Form Middle Ground Approach: An application to Earnings and Agricultural-Nonagricultural Occupational Choices in India
Tirthatanmoy Das, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Distribution Neutral Fiscal Policy with Distorting Taxes and Transfers
Sugata Marjit, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

Indian Corporate Network & Companies Act 2013: Shrinking Concentration of Corporate Elites with Persistent Low Mobility
Anindya S.Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Economic Performance and Electoral Volatility: Testing the Economic Voting Hypothesis on Indian States: 1957-2013
Bharatee B Das, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar and J Stephen Ferris, Carleton University, Ottawa

Pollution Abatement, Trade and Production Organization: Theory and Local Evidence
Saibal Kar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

Poverty and Gender Inequality: Household Responses to India's Trade Reforms
Ashmita Gupta, Wageningen University, Netherlands Janneke Pieters, Wageningen University, Netherlands

Taxation and Supplier Networks: Evidence from Value-Added Taxes in India
Lucie Gadenne, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Political Economy of Corruption in Red Tape
Poulomi Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, Calcutta Vivekananda Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

Other Regarding Principal and Moral Hazard with Multiple Agents
Swapnendu Banerjee, Jadavpur University, Calcutta


International Conference on Public Finance and Public Policy, 3rd - 4th January 2018

Revisiting the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty
Gaurav Datt, Monash University, Melbourne

Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States
Punarjit Roychowdhury, Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi

Status of Health in India
Pranab Kumar Das, Jyotsna Jalan, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Sattwik Santra, Sandip Sarkar, Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy

Arogyasari Health Scheme
Tarun Jain, Sishir Debnath, Revathy Suryanarayana, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

Swasthya Sathi: A scheme that makes Health Insurance reachable to many
Binod Kumar, Department of Health and Family Welfare Tushar Kanti Pathak, Department of Health & Family Welfare

Community Health Insurance Scheme: A comparison of Ethiopia and Bihar
Arjun Bedi, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

Cost Divergence across Healthcare Sectors and the Paradox of Preference
Kalyan Khan, North Bengal Medical College, Siliguri Koushik Kumar Hati, Deshbandhu Mahavidhyalaya, Chittaranjan

What reduces demand for Health Packages?
Sugata Marjit, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta/ RBI/ Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy, Biswajit Mondal. Visva-bharati University


National Conference On Public Finance, Public Economics and Public Policy, 1st February 2018

Selling to a Naive Agent with two Rationales
Kolagani Paramahamsa, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi

Structural break, polarization and club convergence: a study of distribution episodes in India
Debajit Jha, O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana

Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Evidence from India
Sabyasachi Das, Ashoka University, Haryana

Industrialization, Protest & Civil Society
Abhinandan Sinha, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta

Do cattle slaughter bans during early life affect anemia decades later?
Aparajita Dasgupta, Ashoka University, Haryana