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
Title: Banking 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
Title: Community Networks and Trade
Speaker: Lucie Gadenne (Queen Mary, University of London)
Date: August 09, 2023
Title: Are 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
Title: Gender, 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
Title: Exogenous Shocks, Sympathy and Electoral Outcomes
Speaker: Pushkar Maitra (Monash University)
Date: November 23, 2022
Title: Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration
Speaker: Simone Schaner (University of Southern California)
Date: November 16, 2022
Title: Does co-residence with parents-in-law reduce women’s employment in India
Speaker: Rajshri (Raji) Jayaraman (ESMT Berlin)
Date: November 9, 2022
Title: Selected Facts
Speaker: Archishman Chakraborty (Syms School, Yeshiva University )
Date: November 2, 2022
Title: The 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
Title: The Unequal Effects of Pollution on Labor Supply
Speaker: Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway University of London)
Date: September 28, 2022
Title: Poverty at Higher Frequency
Speaker: Joshua D. Merfeld (KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea)
Date: September 21, 2022
Title: Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor
Speaker: Vidhya Soundarajan (IIT Bombay)
Date: September 14, 2022
Title: The 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