Past Seminars

Title:  Proud to belong: The impact of ethics training on police officers in Ghana

Speaker: Danila Serra (Texas A&M University)

Date: September 27, 2023

TitleBanking Catch-22: Trading off Mark-To-Market and Default Risk in the Presence of Guaranteed Deposits

Speaker:  Nirupama Kulkarni (CAFRAL, RBI)

Date: September 06, 2023

TitleCommunity Networks and Trade

Speaker:  Lucie Gadenne (Queen Mary, University of London)

Date: August 09, 2023

TitleAre gender norms systematic to caste institutions? Examining preferences through a social experiment in North Indian villages

Speaker:  Aparajita Dasgupta (Ashoka University)

Date: August 02, 2023

TitleGender, Group Liability and Moral Hazard in Microfinance

Speaker:  Shagata Mukherjee (NITI Aayog)

Date: August 02, 2023

Title: Optimal job design and information elicitation 

Speaker:  Arijit Mukherjee (Michigan State University)

Date: July 26, 2023

Title: Structural Analysis of Xenophobia

Speaker:  Yujung Hwang (Johns Hopkins University)

Date: July 19, 2023

Title: Mobile Money: Innovations in finance and pandemic lessons from Ebola to Covid-19

Speaker:  Purba Mukerji (Connecticut College)

Date: July 05, 2023

Title: In-Kind Transfers as Insurance

Speaker:  Sandip Sukhtankar (University of Virginia)

Date: March 29, 2023

Title: A Large Population Approach to Implementing Efficiency with Minimum Inequality

Speaker:  Ratul Lahkar (Ashoka University)

Date: March 22, 2023

Title: FDI Liberalization in China: Impacts on Structural Transformation, Marriage, and Fertility 

Speaker:  Jessica Leight (IFPRI)

Date: March 15, 2023

Title: Masterclass Series: Mutual Fear and Conflict  (click here for slides)

Speaker:  Sandeep Baliga (Northwestern University)

Date: February 22, 2023 and March 1, 2023

Title: Complaint Resolution Systems: Experimental Evidence from Rural India 

Speaker:  Chinmaya Kumar (University of Chicago)

Date: February 15, 2023

Title: Who becomes a politician in a gender quota system? Evidence from India 

Speaker:  Yuko Mori (Tsuda University)

Date: February 8, 2023

Title: The Lifecycle of Affirmative Action Policies and its Effect on Effort and Sabotage Behavior 

Speaker:  Subhasis Modak (University of Sheffield)

Date: January 25, 2023 

Title: Understanding Socioeconomic Differences in College Outcomes 

Speaker:  Basit Zafar (University of Michigan)

Date: January 18, 2023

Title: Dynamic Delegation 

Speaker:  Parimal Bag (National University of Singapore)

Date: January 4, 2023

Title: The Incidence of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Quotas in Private Schools in India 

Speaker:  Abhijeet Singh (Stockholm School of Economics)

Date: January 4, 2023

TitleExogenous Shocks, Sympathy and Electoral Outcomes

Speaker:  Pushkar Maitra (Monash University)

Date: November 23, 2022

TitleInformation, Intermediaries, and International Migration

Speaker:  Simone Schaner (University of Southern California)

Date: November 16, 2022

TitleDoes co-residence with parents-in-law reduce women’s employment in India

Speaker:  Rajshri (Raji) Jayaraman (ESMT Berlin)

Date: November 9, 2022 

TitleSelected Facts

Speaker: Archishman Chakraborty (Syms School, Yeshiva University )

Date: November 2, 2022 

TitleThe Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway's 1936 Folk School Reform

Speaker: Tuomas Pekkarinen (VATT Institute for Economic Research)

Date: October 19, 2022 

TitleThe Unequal Effects of Pollution on Labor Supply

Speaker:  Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway University of London)

Date: September 28, 2022 

TitlePoverty at Higher Frequency

Speaker: Joshua D. Merfeld (KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea)

Date: September 21, 2022

TitleImport Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor

Speaker: Vidhya Soundarajan (IIT Bombay)

Date: September 14, 2022

TitleThe Impact of China's One-Child Exemptions on Mating, Work and the Gender Wage Gap

Speaker: Solomon Polachek (Binghamton SUNY)

Date: September 7, 2022

Title: Improving Parenting Practices and Child Health: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone 

Speaker: Subha Mani (Fordham University)

Date: August 31, 2022

Title: Health Effects of Incomplete/Complete Fuel Transitions in India: Evidence from Panel Data

Speaker: Mehtabul Azam (Oklahoma State)

Date: August 24, 2022

Title: Dynamic Impacts of School-based Internet Access on Student Learning: Evidence from Peruvian Public Primary Schools

Speaker: Leah K. Lakdawala (Wake Forest University)

Date: August 17, 2022

Title: Balance and Cooperation in Signed Networks: A Model of Multiplex Formation

Speaker: Rajendra Prasad Kundu (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Date: August 10, 2022

Title: Do Social Policies Foster Innovation? Evidence from India’s CSR Regulation

Speaker:  Swarnodeep Homroy (University of Groningen)

Date: August 3, 2022

Title: Trade Liberalization, Ethnic Remoteness, and Civil Conflict

Speaker:  Joseph Flavian Gomes (UCLouvain)

Date: July 27, 2022

Title: Fluctuating Fortunes and Persistent Policies: A Dynamic Theory of Political Failure

Speaker:  Parikshit Ghosh (Delhi School of Economics)

Date: July 20, 2022

Title: How Do Bidders Behave in a Discrete Bid Auction?

Speaker:  Indrajit Ray (Cardiff Business School)

Date: July 13, 2022

Title: Cross-Border Environmental Regulation and Firm Labor Demand 

Speaker:  Chirantan Chatterjee (University of Sussex)

Date: June 22, 2022

Title: Til Dowry Do Us Part: Bargaining and Violence in Indian Families 

Speaker:  Rossella Calvi (Rice University)

Date: June 15, 2022

Title: Can Political Decentralization Improve Citizen Welfare? Evidence Clues from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in India. 

Speaker:  Prasenjit Banerjee (University of Manchester)

Date: June 8, 2022

Title: Banking Sector Expectations and Financial Stability 

Speaker:  Arpit Kumar Parija (XLRI, Delhi)

Date: May 11, 2022

Title: Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior 

Speaker:  Zahra Siddique (University of Bristol)

Date: May 4, 2022

Title: Information Aggregation and Delegation of Votes 

Speaker:  Amrita Dhillon (King's College, London)

Date: April 13, 2022

Title: Bank Competition and Risk-Taking under Market Integration 

Speaker: Kaniska Dam (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

Date: April 6, 2022

Title: The Workforce of Clientelism: The Case of Local Officials in the Party Machine 

Speaker: Laura V. Zimmermann (University of Georgia)

Date: March 23, 2022

Title:  Public Procurement & Private Prices: Evidence from Drug Markets in West Bengal, India

Speaker: Samarth Gupta (NCAER/Ahmedabad University)

Date: November 9, 2021

Title:  A New Strategy to Identify Causal Relationships: Estimating a Binding Average Treatment Effect

Speaker: Tirthatanmoy Das (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore)

Date: October 5, 2021