Conference Programme

Day 1: 18 December, Monday

9.00 AM - 10.10 AM: Registration and Coffee/Tea

10.10 AM - 10.20 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks: Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (ISI Delhi)

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

Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick): “The Dynamic Economic Benefits of Early Life
Health Interventions: the Role of Skills and Opportunities”

Chair: Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (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 Identity and Financial Inclusion (Conference Room)

Session 1(b) Welfare Programmes I (Seminar Room 1)
Session 1(c) Gender I: Women's Safety (Seminar Room 2)
Session 1(d) Religion and Caste (Auditorium)
Session 1(e) Real Estate and Finance I (Classroom 11)
Session 1(f) Applied Micro Theory I (Classroom 13)
Session 1(g) Social Networking and Learning (Classroom 14)
Session 1(h) Banking and Finance (Classroom 22)
Session 1(i) Labour I: Minimum Wages (Classroom 23)
Session 1(j) Environment I (Classroom 24)

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 I (Seminar Room 1)
Session 2(c) Gender II: Female Labour Force Participation (Seminar Room 2)
Session 2(d) Political Economy I: Theory (Auditorium)
Session 2(e) Information Economics (Classroom 11)
Session 2(f) IO: Theory (Classroom 13)
Session 2(g) Macroeconomics: Labour I (Classroom 14)
Session 2(h) Empirical IO (Classroom 22)
Session 2(i) Labour II: Gender Issues (Classroom 23)
Session 2(j) Environment II (Classroom 24)

04.00 PM – 04.30 PM: Coffee/Tea Break

04.30 PM - 06.15 PM: Parallel Sessions 3

Session 3(a) Education II: Affirmative Action (Conference Room)

Session 3(b) Health II (Seminar Room 1)
Session 3(c) Gender III: Female Labour Force Participation (Seminar Room 2)
Session 3(d) Political Economy II: Local Democracy (Auditorium)
Session 3(e) Decision Theory (Classroom 11)
Session 3(f) Applied Micro Theory II (Classroom 13)
Session 3(g) Topics in Macroeconomics I (Classroom 14)
Session 3(h) Topics in Macroeconomics II (Classroom 22)
Session 3(i) Labour III (Classroom 23)
Session 3(j) Agriculture I (Classroom 24)
 Day 2: 19 December, Tuesday
9.00 AM - 9.30 AM: Registration and Coffee/Tea

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

B. Ravikumar (Washington University in St. Louis; Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis):
“Moving Past Malthus and Becker: Mortality and Population Dynamics”

Chair: Chetan Ghate (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: COVID 19 (Seminar Room 1)
Session 4(c) Gender IV: Son Preference (Seminar Room 2)
Session 4(d) Political Economy III (Auditorium)
Session 4(e) Market Design (Classroom 11)
Session 4(f) Trade and IO: Theory (Classroom 13)
Session 4(g) Topics in Macroeconomics III (Classroom 14)
Session 4(h) Law and Economics (Classroom 22)
Session 4(i) Labour IV: Migration (Classroom 23)
Session 4(j) Agriculture II (Classroom 24)

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) Social Heterogeneity and Mobility (Conference Room)

Session 5(b) Health IV (Seminar Room 1)
Session 5(c) History and Persistence (Seminar Room 2)
Session 5(d) Political Economy IV (Auditorium)
Session 5(e) Game Theory (Classroom 11)
Session 5(f) IO and Development: Theory (Classroom 13)
Session 5(g) Macroeconomics: Government Policies (Classroom 14)
Session 5(h) Empirical Trade (Classroom 22)
Session 5(i) Labour V (Classroom 23)
Session 5(j) Environment III (Classroom 24)

04.00 PM -04.30 PM: Coffee/Tea Break

04.30 PM - 06.15 PM: Parallel Sessions 6

Session 6(a) Education IV: Gender Issues (Conference Room)

Session 6(b) Poverty and Deprivation (Seminar Room 1)
Session 6(c) Gender V: Marriage Market (Seminar Room 2)
Session 6(d) Cash Transfers (Auditorium)
Session 6(e) Mechanism Design (Classroom 11)
Session 6(f) Applied Micro Theory III (Classroom 13)
Session 6(g) Macroeconomics: Labour II (Classroom 14)
Session 6(h) Finance (Classroom 22)
Session 6(i) Labour VI (Classroom 23)
Session 6(j) Language (Classroom 24)

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)

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Day 3: 20 December, Wednesday
9.00 AM - 9.30 AM: Registration and Coffee/Tea

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

Rohini Pande (Yale University): “Updating the State: Does Easier Access to Program
Information Improve Bureaucrat Performance?”

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 7

Session 7(a) Caste (Conference Room)

Session 7(b) Welfare Programmes II (Seminar Room 1)
Session 7(c) Gender VI (Seminar Room 2)
Session 7(d) Political Economy V (Auditorium)
Session 7(e) Networks and Cooperative Games (Classroom 11)
Session 7(f) Applied Micro Theory IV (Classroom 13)
Session 7(g) Macroeconomics: Indian Experience I (Classroom 14)
Session 7(h) Banking (Classroom 22)
Session 7(i) Behavioural Economics I (Classroom 23)
Session 7(j) Environment IV: Air Pollution (Classroom 24)

01.00 PM - 02.15 PM: Lunch (Guest House lawn - For registered participants only)

02.15 PM- 04.00 PM: Parallel Sessions 8

Session 8(a) Education V: Impact of Conflict (Conference Room)

Session 8(b) Health V (Seminar Room 1)
Session 8(c) Networks and Congestion (Seminar Room 2)
Session 8(d) Political Economy VI (Auditorium)
Session 8(e) Topics in Micro Theory (Classroom 11)
Session 8(f) Topics in Macroeconomics IV (Classroom 13)
Session 8(g) Macroeconomics: Indian Experience II (Classroom 14)
Session 8(h) Real Estate and Finance II (Classroom 22)
Session 8(i) Behavioural Economics II (Classroom 23)
Session 8(j) Agriculture III (Classroom 24)

4.00 PM - 4.30 PM: Coffee/Tea Break

4.30 PM - 6.00 PM: Panel Discussion on “Research Opportunities in a Dynamic Policy Making
Environment” (Auditorium)
Panelists:

Yamini Aiyar (Centre for Policy Research)

Karthik Muralidharan (University of California San Diego)
Amarjeet Sinha (Ex Secretary, Govt. of India)

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

6.00 - 6.15: Vote of Thanks

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Parallel Sessions 1 18 December, Monday 11:50 AM- 01:00 PM
Session 1(a) Social Identity and Financial Inclusion (Conference Room) Chair: Sandhya Garg
Rikhia Bhukta (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), Debayan Pakrashi (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata;
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), Sarani Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), and Ashish Sedai
(University of Texas at Arlington): "Does Financial Inclusion Mitigate Social Exclusion? Causal Evidence from
India"

Sandhya Garg (Institute of Economic Growth), Samarth Gupta (Ahmedabad University), and Sushanta Mallick
(Queen Mary University of London): "Does Social Identity Constrain Rural Entrepreneurship? The Role of
Financial Inclusion"
Session 1(b) Welfare Programmes I (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Michael Palmer
Vidhya Unnikrishnan (University of Manchester): "Impact of Social Protection Policy Targeted on the
Disabled: Panel Data Evidence from India"

Michael Palmer (University of Western Australia): "Breaking Down the Barriers to Disability Benefits.
Experimental Evidence from Vietnam"
Session 1(c) Gender I: Women's Safety (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Utsa Banerjee
Kumar Ashutosh (IFMR Graduate School of Business, KREA University): "Street Safety: Fuel to Girls’
Secondary Schooling in India"

Utsa Banerjee (Lancaster University): "Can Local Safety Explain Gender Gap in Employment"
Session 1(d) Religion and Caste (Auditorium) Chair: Ashwini Deshpande
Anand Murugesan (Central European University, Vienna), and Jitendra Singh (Ashoka University): "Conflict,
Markets, and Social Costs"

Ashwini Deshpande (Ashoka University), and Rajesh Ramachandran (Monash University): "How Does
Religious Affiliation Affect Socio-Economic Outcomes? Evidence from the Religion-Caste Overlap in India"
Session 1(e) Real Estate and Finance I (Classroom 11) Chair: Sankar De
Sahana Roy Chowdhury (International Management Institute Kolkata), Kirti Gupta (Reserve Bank of India),
and Panayiotis Tzeremes (University of Thessaly): "US Housing Prices and the Transmission Mechanism: A
Quantile Connectedness Model"

Amiya K. Basu (Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University), Siddhartha Basu (Airbnb, San
Francisco, California) and Sankar De (Independent Researcher): "New Venture Financing and Venture Capital
'Funding Hole' "
Parallel Sessions 1 (continued…) 18 December, Monday 11:50 AM – 01:00 PM
Session 1(f) Applied Micro Theory I (Classroom 13) Chair: Dmitry Shapiro
Swapnendu Banerjee (Jadavpur University), and Somenath Chakraborty (Adamas University): "Moral Hazard
with Other-Regarding Principal and Agents "

Dmitry Shapiro (Seoul National University): "Limited Impact of Business Development Programs on
Entrepreneurs’ Profitability in the Presence of Ambiguity Aversion"

Session 1(g) Social Networking and Learning (Classroom 14) Chair: Vanisha Sharma
Ashish Dattaram Desai (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode), Rudra Sensarma (Indian Institute of
Management Kozhikode), and Ashok Thomas (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode): "Impact of Social
Networking on Income and Loan Repayment of Subsistence Women Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence
from India"
Vanisha Sharma (Cornell University): "Social (Media) Learning: Experimental Evidence from Indian Farmers"

Session 1(h) Banking and Finance (Classroom 22) Chair: KM Neelima

Arpit Kumar Parija (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; Xavier School of Management Delhi):
"Unraveling Credibility in Stress Test Result Disclosures"
Nirupama Kulkarni (Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning), KM Neelima (Reserve Bank of
India), and Sonalika Sinha (Reserve Bank of India): "Anatomy of a Liquidity Shock on Non-Banks"

Session 1(i) Labour I: Minimum Wages (Classroom 23) Chair: Jin Ho Kim
Mohit Sharma (Madras School of Economics), and Brinda Viswanathan (Madras School of Economics):
"Impact of Minimum Wages on Low-Skilled Self-Employed Workers in India: Evidence in the Presence of
Varying Compliance Levels and Market Power "
Zhaohe Yang (Hang Seng Bank China), Jin Ho Kim (Cardiff University), and Ida Brzezinska (Oxford Policy
Management): "Meat or Poison? Minimum Wages for Chinese Firms and Workers"

Session 1(j) Environment I (Classroom 24) Chair: Sankalp Mathur

Raavi Aggarwal (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi): "Input Substitution for Sustainable Industrialisation -
Evidence from India"
Sankalp Mathur (Center for Advanced Financial Research and Learning; University of Florida):
"Protectionism in a Green Suit? Market Power and Carbon-based Trade Policy Reform"

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Parallel Sessions 2 18 December, Monday 02:15 PM – 04:00 PM
Session 2(a) Education I (Conference Room) Chair: Shyamal Chowdhury
Nitin Kumar Bharti (New York University Abu Dhabi), Pradeep Kumar Choudhury (Jawaharlal Nehru University; South
Asia Institute; Harvard University), and Pabitra Chowdhury (Independent Researcher): "Does Exposure Matter? Parent's
Early Childhood Exposure to Public Schools and Choice of Private Schools: Evidence from India"

Deepak Kumar (ASER Centre, Pratham), Naveen Sundar (Bentley University), Ricardo Sabates (University of
Cambridge), Wilima Wadhwa (ASER Centre, Pratham), and Suman Bhattacharjea (ASER Centre, Pratham): "Improving
Children’s Foundational Learning through Community-School Participation: Experimental Evidence from Rural India"

Laura Breitkopf (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods), Shyamal Chowdhury (University of Sydney),
Daniel A. Kamhofer (Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf), Hannah Schildberg-Horisch (Heinrich Heine University
Dusseldorf), and Matthias Sutter (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods): "The Right Timing Matters:
Identifying Sensitive Periods in the Formation of Socio-Emotional Skills"

Session 2(b) Health I (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Tanika Chakraborty

Justine Hervé (Stevens Institute of Technology), Subha Mani (Fordham University), Jere Behrman (University of
Pennsylvania), Ramanan Laxminarayan (One Health Trust; Princeton University), and Arindam Nandi (The Population
Council): "Food Coma is Real: The Effect of Digestive Fatigue on Adolescents’ Cognitive Performance"

Titir Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; University of Warwick), Tanika Chakraborty (Indian Institute
of Management Calcutta), and Anirban Mukherjee (University of Calcutta): "Demand for Health Insurance: Financial
and Informational role of Informal Networks"

Titir Bhattacharya (University of Warwick), Tanika Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta), and Prabal
De (City University of New York): "Impacts of Public Insurance on Health Access and Outcomes - Evidence from India"

Session 2(c) Gender II: Female Labour Force Participation (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Ashokankur Datta
Marco Bertoni (University of Padova), Chiara Dal Bianco (University of Padova), Isha Gupta (India Development
Foundation; Masaryk University), and Guglielmo Weber (University of Padova): "Prenatal Sex Detection Technology and
Mothers’ Labour Supply in India"

Tanu Gupta (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi): "Women's Inheritance Rights and Time Use in India"

Aparajita Dasgupta (Ashoka University), and Ashokankur Datta (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "Gendered
Transport Subsidy and its Short Run Effect on Female Employment: Evidence from Delhi’s Pink Pass Scheme"

Session 2(d) Political Economy I: Theory (Auditorium) Chair: Satyajit Chatterjee

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay (University of Birmingham), Moumita Deb (Alfred Weber Institute for Economics;
University of Heidelberg), Johannes Lohse (University of Birmingham), and Rebecca McDonald (University of
Birmingham): "Transparency's Twist: Impact of Information Acquisition on Voting"

Dyotona Dasgupta (O.P. Jindal Global University), and Anirban Mitra (University of Kent): "The Long Shadow of
Political Campaigns: Inequality and Welfare"

Satyajit Chatterjee (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), and Burcu Eyigungor (Federal Reserve Bank of
Philadelphia): "The Changing Polarization of Party Ideologies: The Role of Sorting"

Session 2(e) Information Economics (Classroom 11) Chair: Deepal Basak

Salil Sharma (Stockholm School of Economics), Pavel Illinov (École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne), Andrei
Matveenko (University of Mannheim), Elias Tsakas (Maastricht University), and Mark Voorneveld (Stockholm School of
Economics): "Is it Better to be First? Sequential Search with Endogenous Information Acquisition"

Raghul Srinivasan Venkatesh (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal): "A Theory of International
Alliances"

Deepal Basak (Kelley School of Business at Indiana University), Joyee Deb (New York University), and Aditya
Kuvalekar (University of Essex): "#Change"

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Parallel Sessions 2 (continued…) 18 December, Monday 02:15 PM – 04:00 PM
Session 2(f) IO: Theory (Classroom 13) Chair: Neelanjan Sen
Hiteshchandra Tripathi (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur): "Coalition-proof Stackelberg Equilibria"
Sneha Bakshi (Ashoka University): "Heterogeneous Quality Discernment and Competitive Pricing"
Neelanjan Sen (Madras School of Economics), and Uday Bhanu Sinha (Delhi School of Economics): "Multi-
market Contact, Cartel and Product Quality"

Session 2(g) Macroeconomics: Labour I (Classroom 14) Chair: Amartya Lahiri

Srinivasan Murali (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), and Shweta Sogani (Indian Institute of
Management Bangalore): "Wage Cyclicality Across Time and Frequencies"
Pubali Chakraborty (Bates College), Anand Chopra (University of Liverpool), and Lalit Contractor (Ashoka
University): "Support Prices, Input Subsidies, and Misallocation in Agriculture"
Viktoria Hnatkovska (University of British Columbia), Chenyu (Sev) Hou (CUHK - Shenzhen), and Amartya
Lahiri (University of British Columbia): "Urbanization, Structural Transformation and Rural-Urban Disparities
in China and India"

Session 2(h) Empirical IO (Classroom 22) Chair: Ajay Shenoy

Tishara Garg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Agglomeration and Coordination Failures: Lessons for
Industrial Policy"
Himadri Shekhar Chakrabarty (Indian Institute of Management Lucknow): "Myths in the Modes of
Privatization of Distressed State Owned Enterprises in India: Role of Soft Budget Constraint"
Brenda Samaniego de la Parra (University of California Santa Cruz), and Ajay Shenoy (University of California
Santa Cruz): "Measuring and Estimating Retail Productivity"

Session 2(i) Labour II: Gender Issues (Classroom 23) Chair: Rahul Lahoti
Arjun Prakash (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur), and Inder Sekhar Yadav (Indian Institute of
Technology Kharagpur): "From Bytes to Bias: Investigating Gender Pay Gap and Glass Ceiling in the Indian IT
Sector"
Saheli Bose (Birla Institute of Technology Mesra), and Somdeep Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Management
Calcutta): "Mandated Increases in Maternity Leaves and the Motherhood Penalty: New Evidence from India"
Rosa Abraham (Azim Premji University), Nishat Anjum (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Rahul Lahoti (UNU-
WIDER), and Hema Swaminathan (Institute of Management Bangalore): "What did They Say? Respondent
Identity, Question Framing and the Measurement of Employment"

Session 2(j) Environment II (Classroom 24) Chair: Prabhat Kishore

Dayakar Peddi (Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad): "Soil and Water Conservation Measures
and Rainfed Agriculture in Telangana, India: Role of Community and Neighborhood Conservation Measures"
Shivani Wadehra (University of Petroleum and Energy Studies), and Zihan Nie (Beijing Normal University):
"Designing a Waste Management System Suitable for Developing Countries: Field Evidence from Bangladesh"
Prabhat Kishore (National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research), Devesh Roy
(International Food Policy Research Institute), Pratap Birthal (National Institute of Agricultural Economics and
Policy Research), and Shivendra K. Srivastava (National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy
Research): "Regulation and Responses to Policies for Checking Groundwater Depletion in India: Evaluation
using Synthetic Difference-in-Difference Approach"

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Parallel Sessions 3 18 December, Monday 04:30 PM – 06:15 PM
Session 3(a) Education II: Affirmative Action (Conference Room) Chair: Abhijeet Singh
Ritika Gupta (University of Virginia): "Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Affirmative Action in Local Elite Colleges and
Subject Choice"

Abhishek Shaw (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad): "Affirmative Action in Higher Education:
Understanding OBC Reservations in India"

Mauricio Romero (ITAM; JPAL), and Abhijeet Singh (Stockholm School of Economics; JPAL): "The Incidence of
Affirmative Action: Evidence from Quotas in Private Schools in India"

Session 3(b) Health II (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Dweepobotee Brahma

Pragati (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), and Sounak Thakur (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur):
"Affirmative Actions and Intergenerational Impacts: Evidence from India"

Sarthak Agarwal (Indian Institute of Management Lucknow), Somdeep Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Management
Calcutta), and Shreyasee Das (Temple University): "Does Paternal Exposure to an Industrial Disaster affect Early
Life Health Investments of Children?"

Dweepobotee Brahma (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur), and Souvik Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology
Jodhpur): "Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Transmission of Health: A Recursive Partitioning Approach from
Machine Learning"

Session 3(c) Gender III: Female Labour Force Participation (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Cledwyn
Fernandez
Abu Afzal Tauheed (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "(En)Gendering Marital Status in Indian Job Market: An
Experimental Study"

Sarthak Joshi (University of Warwick): "The Geography of Structural Transformation: Implications for Women’s
Work"

Cledwyn Fernandez (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations), and Havishaye Puri
(Indian Council for Research for International Economic Relations): "Does Digital Infrastructure Spur Female
Labour Force Participation: Evidence from Urban India"

Session 3(d) Political Economy II: Local Democracy (Auditorium) Chair: M. R. Sharan
Abhishek Arora (Harvard University), Siddharth George (National University of Singapore), Vijayendra Rao
(World Bank), and M. R. Sharan (University of Maryland): "The Added Value of Local Democracy: Evidence from a
Natural Experiment in India"

Priyadarshi Amar (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Rikhil Bhavnani (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and

Amit Jadhav (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "The Effects of Direct Elections on Program Implementation:
Evidence from India's Village Councils"

Apurva Bamezai (University of Pennsylvania), Siddharth George (National University of Singapore), M. R. Sharan
(University of Maryland), and Borui Sun (University of Maryland): "Who Becomes a Local Politician? Evidence
from Rural India"

Session 3(e) Decision Theory (Classroom 11) Chair: Nicolas Gravel

Pranjal Bhushan (HEC Paris), Abhinash Borah (Ashoka University), and Siddarth Venkatesh (Ashoka University):
"Beliefs in Echo Chambers: Identification and Characterization"

Varun Bansal (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi): "Reference Lower Bound"

Barry Sopher (Rutgers University): "Paradox Lost: The St. Petersburg Gamble Revisited "

Nicolas Gravel (Aix-Marseille University), and Thierry Marchant (University of Ghent): "Rank Dependent
Weighted Average Utility Models for Decision Making under Ignorance or Objective Ambiguity"

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Parallel Sessions 3 (continued…) 18 December, Monday 04:30 PM – 06:15 PM
Session 3(f) Applied Micro Theory II (Classroom 13) Chair: Brishti Guha
Rabi Mondal (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi; Ashoka University): "Media Bias: a Demand-Sided Approach"

Ayush Pant (Ashoka University), and Zeinab Aboutalebi (European University Institute): "Optimal Intermediary
Test and Disclosure Design"

Brishti Guha (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "Plea Bargaining when Juror Effort is Costly"

Session 3(g) Topics in Macroeconomics I (Classroom 14) Chair: Sugata Ghosh

Shiv Ratan Tiwari (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur): "Aspirational OPS with Fiscal Prudence of NPS: A
Conceptual Framework for a Win-Win Solution"

Anshumaan Tuteja (University of Warwick): "What Explains the Stock Market's Response to QE Policy? Evidence
from a Decomposition of the S&P500 Index"

Joel Alcedo (Mastercard), Alberto Cavallo (Harvard Business School), Bricklin Dwyer (Mastercard), Prachi Mishra
(International Monetary Fund Research), and Antonio Spilimbergo (International Monetary Fund): "Back to Trend:
COVID Effects on E-Commerce in 47 Countries"

Sugata Ghosh (Brunel University London), and Simone Marsiglio (University of Pisa): "Environmental Damages
and the Prospects for Economic Development"

Session 3(h) Topics in Macroeconomics II (Classroom 22) Chair: Samarth Gupta

Rudra Narayan Kushwaha (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), and Taniya Ghosh (Indira Gandhi
Institute of Development Research): "The Effects of Declining Population Growth on Patents and Economic Growth
Dynamics"

Subhrasil Chingri (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), and Debasis Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi): "Automation and Human Capital: Modeling the Impact on Labor Share"

Samarth Gupta (Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University), and Vaishnavi Mohan (Ahmedabad
University): "Consumption, Welfare and Income Transfers in India: A Structural Econometrics Approach"
Session 3(i) Labour III (Classroom 23) Chair: Kanika Mahajan
Mahima Kapoor (University of Warwick), Subhasish Dey (University of Warwick), and Anirban Mukherjee
(University of Calcutta): "Between Two Worlds: Education-Occupation Mismatch for Second-Generation
Immigrants in the UK"

Nandana Sengupta (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), Neaketa Chawla (Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad), Anna Agarwal (Centre for Policy Research), and James Evans (University of Chicago and Santa Fe
Institute): "Do Online Certifications Improve Job Market Outcomes? Evidence from an IT Skills Certification
Platform in India"

Kanika Mahajan (Ashoka University), and Shekhar Tomar (Indian School of Business): "Bridging the Miles:
Spatial Factors in Job Application and Selection"
Session 3(j) Agriculture I (Classroom 24) Chair: Wouter Zant
Digvijay Singh Negi (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), and Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell
University): "Commodity Markets, Informal Transfers and Consumption Risk Sharing"

Ridhima Gupta (South Asian University), Ashokankur Dutta (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), and Amlan Das
Gupta (O.P. Jindal Global University): "Impact of Climate Change on Food Consumption Patterns in India"

Wouter Zant (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam; Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam), and Bart van den Boom (Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam): "Technology Adoption and Market Participation through Household Savings for Food
Security: Two Birds with One Stone?"

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Parallel Sessions 4 19 December, Tuesday 11:15 AM – 01:00 PM
Session 4(a) Education III (Conference Room) Chair: Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Gopinath Annadurai (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), and Soham Sahoo (Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore): "Improving First-Generation College Students’ Education and Labour Market Outcomes: Impact Evaluation
of an Inclusive Policy in India"

Ariel Gomez (Northeastern University): "Rural Education, Nation-Building, and Human Capital in Post-Revolutionary
Mexico"

Nitin Bharti (New York University Abu Dhabi), Samreen Malik (New York University Abu Dhabi), Abhiroop
Mukhopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi), and Nishith Prakash (Northeastern University): "Science on the
Move: How Mobile Pedagogy Shapes Human Capital "

Session 4(b) Health III: COVID 19 (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Arnab Nayak
Aashish Gupta (University of Oxford), Payal Hathi (University of California, Berkeley), Murad Banaji (University of
Oxford), Prankur Gupta (University of Texas at Austin), Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford), Vipul Paikra (Research
Institute for Compassionate Economics), Kanika Sharma (Emory University), Anmol Somanchi (Paris School of
Economics), Nikkil Sudharsanan (Technical University of Munich), and Sangita Vyas (City University of New York):
"Large and Unequal Life Expectancy Declines Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic in India in 2020"

Sisir Debnath (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), Sourabh B. Paul (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), and
Komal Sareen (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi): "Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Routine Childhood
Immunization"

Tannista Banerjee (Auburn University), Arnab Nayak (Mercer University), and Yiyu Xing (Auburn University): "Did
Our Trousers Fit after the Quarantine? Effects of COVID-19 Lockdowns and Digital Social Support on Personal Health
Choices "

Session 4(c) Gender IV: Son Preference (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Garance Genicot
Bilal Ahmad Bhat (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), Esha Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur),
and Sounak Thakur (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur): "Fertility Outcomes and Wellbeing in Post-Reproductive
Ages: Evidence from India"

Tista Mukherjee (University of Goettingen), Sukanta Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta), and Ishita Mukhopadhyay
(University of Calcutta): "Unsafe Daughters: Sexual Violence in Public Spheres and Intrahousehold Stated Preference for
Sons"

Garance Genicot (Georgetown University), and Maria Hernandez-de-Benito (Universidad De Alicante): "Firstborn Girls
and Family Structure: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa"

Session 4(d) Political Economy III (Auditorium) Chair: Laura Zimmermann

Muneer Kalliyil (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), and Soham Sahoo (Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore): "Political Economy of Private Schooling Market in India"

S. K. Ritadhi (Ashoka University), Pavel Chakraborty (Lancaster University), and Abhay Aneja (University of
California, Berkeley): "Globalization Shocks and the Rise of Ethnic Politics: Evidence from India’s Trade Liberalization"

Nabaneeta Biswas (Marshall University), Christopher Cornwell (University of Georgia), and Laura Zimmermann
(University of Georgia): "Female Electoral Success and the Survival of Girl Children in India"
Session 4(e) Market Design (Classroom 11) Chair: Sonal Yadav
Vinay Kumar Jha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad), Jeevant Rampal (Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad), and Aditya Kuvalekar (University of Essex): "Bureaucratic Assignment"

Kriti Manocha (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi), and Bertan Turhan (Iowa State University): "Gradual Matching with
Affirmative Action"

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

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Parallel Sessions 4 (continued…) 19 December, Tuesday 11:15 AM – 01:00 PM
Session 4(f) Trade and IO: Theory (Classroom 13) Chair: Arghya Ghosh
Gaurav Jakhu (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), and Tarun Jain (Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore): "Economics of Content Aggregation: Pricing and Advertising Competition in a Multi-Channel
Structure"
Kaushal Kishore (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal): "Does Competition for
Multiple Investors Mitigate the Hold-up Problem?"
Tomohiro Ara (Fukushima University), Arpita Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore;
University of New South Wales), Arghya Ghosh (University of New South Wales), and Hongyong Zhang
(RIETI): "Input Tariff in Oligopoly: Entry, Heterogeneity, and Demand Curvature"

Session 4(g) Topics in Macroeconomics III (Classroom 14) Chair: Parantap Basu
Monisankar Bishnu (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi), and Chakshu Jain (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi):
"The Unusual Power of the Interaction of Inequality and Technological Progress to Explain Historical Paths"
Debasis Bandyopadhyay (University of Auckland): "Gender in Macroeconomic Evolutionary Dynamics with
Endogenous Technology and Women’s Rights"
Parantap Basu (Durham University Business School), Tooraj Jamasb (Copenhagen School of Energy
Infrastructure, Copenhagen Business School), and Anupama Sen (Smith School for Enterprise and the
Environment, University of Oxford): "Trilemma or Trinity? The Nexus between Economic Growth, Circular
Economy and Net Zero Emissions"

Session 4(h) Law and Economics (Classroom 22) Chair: Vaidehi Tandel
Mahima Vasishth (LEAP, Bocconi University): "Local Media Reports about Sexual Crimes and Judicial
Outcomes in India"
Martin Mattsson (National University of Singapore), and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University):
"Formalizing Dispute Resolution: Effects of Village Courts in Bangladesh"
Vaidehi Tandel (University of Manchester), Sahil Gandhi (University of Manchester), Anupam Nanda
(University of Manchester), and Nandini Agnihotri (Centre for Social and Economic Progress): "Do Mandatory
Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets in India"

Session 4(i) Labour IV: Migration (Classroom 23) Chair: Suresh Naidu
Ronit Mukherji (Ashoka University): "Deunionization and Immigrant Entry"
Ritam Chaurey (Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies), Kanika Mahajan (Ashoka
University), and Shekhar Tomar (Indian School of Business): "Trumping Immigration: Visa Uncertainty and
Jobs Relocation"
Suresh Naidu (Columbia University), Yaw Nyarko (New York University), and Shing-Yi Wang (University of
Pennsylvania ): "The Costs and Benefits of Guest Worker Programs: Experimental Evidence from the India-
UAE Migration Corridor"

Session 4(j) Agriculture II (Classroom 24) Chair: Disha Gupta

Apoorv Gupta (Dartmouth College), Jacopo Ponticelli (Northwestern University), and Andrea Tesei (Queen
Mary University of London): "Information Frictions and Take-up of Government Credit Programs"
Andre Butler (University of Cambridge), and Camille Boudot-Reddy (Birkbeck Business School, University
of London): "Watering the Seeds of the Rural Economy: Evidence from Groundwater Irrigation in India"
Disha Gupta (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): "Pricing Farm Electricity, Water Use and
Efficiency: The Case of Paddy Cultivation in Punjab"

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Parallel Sessions 5 19 December, Tuesday 02:15 PM – 04:00 PM
Session 5(a) Social Heterogeneity and Mobility (Conference Room) Chair: Kunal Sen
Nazneen Alam (University of Calcutta), Sukanta Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta), and Anirban
Mukherjee (University of Calcutta): "Social Heterogeneity and Economic Mobility"
Upasak Das (University of Manchester), Udayan Rathore (Oxford Policy Management), and Prasenjit Sarkhel
(University of Kalyani): "Social Diversity and Spread of Pandemic: Evidence from India "
Vegard Iversen (University of Greenwich; UNU-WIDER), Anustup Kundu (UNU-WIDER ; University of
Helsinki), Rahul Lahoti (UNU-WIDER), and Kunal Sen (UNU-WIDER; University of Manchester): "Barriers
or Catalysts? Traditional Institutions and Social Mobility in Rural India"

Session 5(b) Health IV (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Andrea Berlanda

Vinayak Krishnatri (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), and Sukumar Vellakkal (Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur): "Market Disruption and Unintended Welfare Gains: Effects of Affordable Internet on
Access to Maternal and Child Healthcare in India."
Dibya Deepta Mishra (Rice University), and Ritika Sethi (Rice University): "Pharmacy Proximity and Period
Poverty: Assessing the Impact of Subsidized Menstrual Product Availability on Menstrual Management"
Andrea Berlanda (University of Padova): "Health Policies for Women Empowerment"

Session 5(c) History and Persistence (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Sumit Mishra
Shampa Bhattacharjee (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), Roopal Jain (Shiv Nadar Institution of
Eminence), and Priyoma Mustafi (University of Pittsburgh): "Catholic Missionary Presence and Fertility in
India"
Dean Yang (University of Michigan), and Aneesha Parvathaneni (University of Michigan): "War
Mobilization and Economic Development: World War II and Structural Transformation in India"
Karthik Rao Cavale (Krea University), and Sumit Mishra (Krea University): "Whither Persistence?"

Session 5(d) Political Economy IV (Auditorium) Chair: Sarmistha Pal

Natasha Jha (University of Notre Dame), Shilpa Aggarwal (Indian School of Business), and Ishani Chatterjee
(University of California San Diego): "Minimum Support Prices in Indian Agriculture: Supporting Whom and
at What Price?"
Ram Singh (Delhi School of Economics): "Do the Wealthy Underreport their Income? Using General Election
Filings to Study the Income-Wealth Relationship in India"
Marislei Nishijima (University of Sao Paulo), and Sarmistha Pal (University of Surrey; IZA - Institute of
Labour Economics): "Can the Political Left Save the Planet? Impact of Leftist Mayors on Deforestation in the
Brazilian Amazon"

Session 5(e) Game Theory (Classroom 11) Chair: Tapas Kundu

Srinivas Arigapudi (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), Yuval Heller (Bar-Ilan University), and Amnon
Schreiber (Bar-Ilan University): "Heterogeneous Noise and Stable Miscoordination"
Jeevant Rampal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad), and Fernando Stragliotto (Queen Mary
University of London): "Heterogeneous Agent Quantal Response Equilibrium"
Derek Clark (UiT the Arctic University of Norway), and Tapas Kundu (Oslo Metropolitan University):
"Competing for Dominance in Technology Markets"

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Parallel Sessions 5 (continued…) 19 December, Tuesday 02:15 PM – 04:00 PM
Session 5(f) IO and Development: Theory (Classroom 13) Chair: Vatsala Shreeti
Priyanka Dutta (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi), Arghya Ghosh (University of New South Wales), and
Tridip Ray (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi): "Mixed Markets, Privatization and Consumer Welfare"
Dibyendu Maiti (Delhi School of Economics), and Bhavna Khari (Delhi School of Economics):
"Digitalisation, Governance and the Informal Sector"
Vatsala Shreeti (Bank for International Settlements): "Adoption of Digital Technologies: The Case of
Smartphones in India"

Session 5(g) Macroeconomics: Government Policies (Classroom 14) Chair: Simone Marsiglio
Snigdha Kalra (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), and Sargam Gupta (Indira Gandhi Institute
of Development Research): "Optimal Tax Rates and Laffer Curve Analysis for India"
Abhishek Kumar (University of Southampton), and Sushanta Mallick (Queen Mary University of London):
"Government Size and Risk Premium"
Simone Marsiglio (University of Pisa), Javier de Frutos (University of Valladolid), Guiomar Martin–Herran
(University of Valladolid), Davide La Torre (SKEMA Business School), and Danilo Liuzzi (University of
Milan): "Mitigation Policy during COVID-19: Economy, Health and the Environment"

Session 5(h) Empirical Trade (Classroom 22) Chair: Anirudh Shingal

Ananya Kotia (London School of Economics): "Import Competition and Domestic Distortions: Evidence from
India"
Qayoom Khachoo (Delhi School of Economics; Institute of Economic Growth), and Ridwan Ah Sheikh (Delhi
School of Economics): "Do Preferential Trade Agreements Stimulate Patenting? Evidence from BRICS"
Anirudh Shingal (Shreyans Prasad Jain Institute of Management & Research; European University Institute):
"Sanctions and Services Trade: The Neglected Dimension"

Session 5(i) Labour V (Classroom 23) Chair: Soham Sahoo

Neeraj Katewa (Indian Institute of Management Lucknow), Dr. Tanmoy Majilla (Plaksha University), and Dr.
Sangeeta D. Misra (Indian Institute of Management Lucknow): "Government as Marketer: The Labor Market
Effects of Product Promotion and Cluster Formation Initiative by the Government"
Femi Gabriel Ogunjemilusi (University of Warwick), and Subhasish Dey (University of Warwick):
"Evaluating Micro-Entrepreneurship Development Programme Through Business Plan Competition: The Case
of YouWin Programme of Nigeria."
Jafar Jafarov (Georgia State University), Tejendra Singh (Georgia State University), and Soham Sahoo (Indian
Institute of Management Bangalore): "Air Pollution and Time Use: Evidence from India"

Session 5(j) Environment III (Classroom 24) Chair: Biung-Ghi Ju

Rimjhim Saxena (University of Colorado Boulder): "Structural Transformation and Climate Change in India "
Sanjukta Mitra (Iowa State University), and Sandip K. Agarwal (Indian Institute of Science Education and
Research Bhopal): "Prices vs Taxes: Evidence from Household Fuel Consumption in India"
Biung-Ghi Ju (Seoul National University), and Hyunwoo Hong (Chungnam National University): "Climate
Justice: Historical Accountability vs. International Paretianism"

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Parallel Sessions 6 19 December, Tuesday 04:30 PM – 06:15 PM
Session 6(a) Education IV: Gender Issues (Conference Room) Chair: Aparajita Dasgupta
Tanmay Devi (Rice University), Ajinkya Keskar (Binghamton University (SUNY)), Dibya Mishra (Rice University),
and Ritika Sethi (Rice University): "Beyond a Free Lunch: Unintended Consequences of an Out-of-School Nutrition
Program on Adolescent Girls’ School Enrollment"

Elisabeth Kempter (University of Luxembourg): "Educated Girls, a Force for Development? Gender Inequality in
Education and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Path-Dependency Analysis"

Aparajita Dasgupta (Ashoka University), and Anahita Karandikar (University of British Columbia): "Learning
Outcomes under Rainfall Shocks: The Role of Norms Around Female Labor Force Participation"

Session 6(b) Poverty and Deprivation (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Paul Kattuman
Jean-Louis Arcand (Geneva Graduate Institute; Global Development Network), and Balasubramanyam Pattath
(Geneva Graduate Institute): "Relative Deprivation and the Engel Curve"

Akansh (Indian Institute of Management Indore), and Karthikeya Naraparaju (Indian Institute of Management Indore):
"Societal Poverty in a High-Growth Economy: Estimates from India During 1993-2012"

Pierre-Philippe Combes (Sciences Po), Robin Moellerherm (Heidelberg University), Shohei Nakamura (World Bank),
Charlotte Robert (Heidelberg University), Mark Roberts (World Bank), Benjamin Stewart (World Bank), and Slava
Yakubenko (Westminster International University in Tashkent; The National Research University Higher School of
Economics): "Where is Poverty Concentrated? The New Evidence based on Globally Consistent Urban and Poverty
Measurements"

Sytske Wijnsma (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley), and Paul Kattuman (Judge Business
School, University of Cambridge): "Rural Smallholders, Income Portfolios, and Spillovers: Broadening the View for
Poverty Alleviation Strategies"

Session 6(c) Gender V: Marriage Market (Seminar Room 2) Chair: V Bhaskar

Priyama Majumdar (University of Warwick): "The Effect of Women’s Political Reservation on the Prevalence of
Dowry"

Khushboo Surana (University of York), and Mikhail Freer (University of Essex): "Marital Stability With Committed
Couples: A Revealed Preference Analysis"

V Bhaskar (University of Texas at Austin), Junjian Yi (Beijing University), and Wenchao Li (Tongji University):
"Strategic Parental Investments in a Competitive Marriage Market"

Session 6(d) Cash Transfers (Auditorium) Chair: Rohini Somanathan

Anshika (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), and Gitanjali Sen (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence): "Money Matters:
Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme on Child and Maternal Health"

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

Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics): "Nudging Norms through Conditional Transfers"

Session 6(e) Mechanism Design (Classroom 11) Chair: Sumit Goel

Parikshit De (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal), and Devwrat Dube (Indian Institute of
Science Education and Research Bhopal): "No-Envy, Strategyproofness and Cost-Monotonicity in Sequencing Problems"

Abhigyan Bose (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata), and Souvik Roy (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata): "Matching
under Multiple Single-Peaked Domains"

Sumit Goel (New York University Abu Dhabi), and Wade Hann-Caruthers (Technion): "Project Selection with Partially
Verifiable Information"

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Parallel Sessions 6 (continued…) 19 December, Tuesday 04:30 PM – 06:15 PM
Session 6(f) Applied Micro Theory III (Classroom 13) Chair: Ira N. Gang
Sukanta Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta), and Anirban Mukherjee (University of Calcutta): "Identity,
Economic Mobility and Conflict"
Mausumi Das (Delhi School of Economics), and Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University; Santa Fe Institute): "Role
Models"
Gil S. Epstein (Bar-Ilan University), and Ira N. Gang (Rutgers University): "Herding, Taxpayer's Rent
Seeking and Endemic Corruption"

Session 6(g) Macroeconomics: Labour II (Classroom 14) Chair: Srinivasan Murali

Pranav Mimani (European University Institute): "Beliefs, Aggregate Productivity and Wages: Role of
Expectation in Labor Market Dynamics"
Aruni Mitra (The University of Manchester): "The Productivity Puzzle and the Decline of Unions"
Guanyi Yang (Colorado College), and Srinivasan Murali (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore): "Race,
Wealth, and Unemployment Insurance"

Session 6(h) Finance (Classroom 22) Chair: Vaishnavi Surendra

Shreya Lahiri (Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad Campus), and Shreya Biswas
(Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad Campus): "(Im)balance in the Household Balance
Sheet in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster"
Christopher Eaglin (Duke University), and Apoorv Gupta (Dartmouth College): "The Impact of Relaxing
Liquidity Constraints on Small Firm Performance: Evidence from South Africa"
Vaishnavi Surendra (Precision Development (PxD)): "The Moneylender as Middleman: Formal Credit
Supply and Informal Loans in Rural India"

Session 6(i) Labour VI (Classroom 23) Chair: Bornali Bhandari

Niranjan R. Raja (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), and Shabana Mitra (Shiv Nadar Institution of
Eminence): "Rational Selection among SOGIESC Minority Communities in the Indian Workplace: A Focused
Study"
Anisha Sharma (Ashoka University), Manisha Shah (University of California, Berkeley), and Beata
Luczywek (University of California, San Diego): "Understanding the Impact of Low-Cost Loans on Labor
Trafficking Outcomes"
Bornali Bhandari (National Council of Applied Economic Research), Samarth Gupta (Ahmedabad
University), Ajaya K Sahu (National Council of Applied Economic Research), and KS Urs (National Council
of Applied Economic Research): "Tenure, Earnings and Productivity of Platform Delivery Workers: Evidence
from India"

Session 6(j) Language (Classroom 24) Chair: Chinmaya Holla

Advaith Jayakumar (Independent Researcher), and Anisha Sharma (Ashoka University): "Is Language a
Bridge or Barrier? Impact of Linguistic Distance on Woman and Child Health in India"
Ashokankur Datta (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence), and Anushree Khatri (Shiv Nadar Institution of
Eminence): "Effect of State’s Language Policy on Learning Outcomes of Linguistic Minorities: Evidence from
Indian Districts"
Uttara Balakrishnan (American Institutes for Research), Chinmaya Holla (American Institutes for Research),
and Pooja Nakamura (American Institutes for Research): "Impact of Mother Tongue Instruction on Academic
Performance: Evidence from India"

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Parallel Sessions 7 20 December, Wednesday 11:15 AM– 01:00 PM
Session 7(a) Caste (Conference Room) Chair: Nitin Kumar Bharti
Ritwik Banerjee (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), Satarupa Mitra (Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore), Soham Sahoo (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), and Ashmita Gupta (Asian Development
Research Institute): "Teachers Caste Bias Affects Students Mental Health and Aspirations in Bihar, India"

Akhil Ilango (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), and Sampreet S. Goraya (Stockholm School of
Economics): "Social Norms, Product Demand, and Firm Size"

Nitin Kumar Bharti (New York University Abu Dhabi), Luca Maria Pesando (New York University Abu Dhabi),
Koyel Sarkar (New York University Abu Dhabi), and Neha Bailwal (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi): "Dynamics
of School Expansion and Inter-Caste Marriages in India"

Session 7(b) Welfare Programmes II (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Debdatta Pal

Impact and Incidence of Housing Subsidies in Urban Slums: Evidence from Indi: "Impact and Incidence of Housing
Subsidies in Urban Slums: Evidence from India"

Swarna Parameswaran (Goa Institute of Management), Hari K. Nagarajan (Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad), Abhiman Das (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad), and Vivek Pandey (Institute of Rural
Management Anand): "Examining the Spillover Effects of Exposure to MGNREGS on Village Incomes and
Household Consumption Expenditures"

Debdatta Pal (Indian Institute of Management Lucknow): "Confidence in Local Self-Governments and Rural
Housing Programs"

Session 7(c) Gender VI (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Bharti Nandwani

Karan Babbar (O.P. Jindal Global University),and Pritha Dev (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad):
"Knowledge is Power’: Ovulatory Cycle Knowledge and its Impact on Reproductive Outcomes and Empowerment"

Manini Ojha (O. P. Jindal Global University), and Karan Babbar (O. P. Jindal Global University): "Power to
Choose? Examining the Link between Contraceptive Use and Domestic Violence"

Bharti Nandwani (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), and Punarjit Roychowdhury (Shiv Nadar
Institution of Eminence): "Rural Roads Infrastructure and Women Empowerment in India"

Session 7(d) Political Economy V (Auditorium) Chair: Pushkar Maitra

Resuf Ahmed (University of Lausanne), Akhila Kovvuri (Stanford University), and Alessandro Saia (University of
Bologna): "Crafting Identity: Rise of Hindu Nationalism"

Camille Boudot-Reddy (Birkbeck Business School, University of London), and Andre Butler (University of
Cambridge): "Paving the Road to Re-election"

Ashani Amarasinghe (University of Sydney), Pushkar Maitra (Monash University), and Yuchen Zhong
(University of Melbourne): "Partisan Alignment, Insurgency and Security: Evidence from the Indian Red-corridor"

Session 7(e) Networks and Cooperative Games (Classroom 11) Chair: Sudipta Sarangi
Christophe Bravard (Université Grenoble Alpes), Promit K. Chaudhuri (Virginia Tech), Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia
Tech), and Hector Tzavellas (Virginia Tech): "Intervention under Network Uncertainty"

Surajit Borkotokey (Dibrugarh University), Sujata Goala (Dibrugarh University), and Rajnish Kumar (Queen's
University Belfast): "The Expected Shapley Value on a Class of Probabilistic Games"

Christophe Bravard (Université Grenoble Alpes), Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech), and Hector Tzavellas (Virginia
Tech): "Group Dominant Networks and Convexity"

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Parallel Sessions 7 (continued…) 20 December, Wednesday 11:15 AM – 01:00 PM
Session 7(f) Applied Micro Theory IV (Classroom 13) Chair: Gautam Bose
Sandip Datta (Delhi School of Economics), and Debasis Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi): "The
Puzzle of Private School Enrollment in India: Insights on the Perceived Quality of Education"

Christopher Biolsi (University of Western Kentucky), Steven G. Craig (University of Houston), and Amrita Dhar
(University of Mary Washington): "Tastes for Education or Tastes for Equity: What Motivates State Government
Aid for K-12?"

Gautam Bose (University of New South Wales), and Arghya Ghosh (University of New South Wales):
"Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, or just Tax the Rich? Development, Efficiency, and the Pursuit of Equity"

Session 7(g) Macroeconomics: Indian Experience I (Classroom 14) Chair: Abhiman Das
Janani Rangan (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad), and Abhiman Das (Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad): "Macroeconomic Shocks and Business Inflation Expectations"

Samiran Dutta (Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): "Misallocation, Labor
Informality and TFP: Theory & Evidence from the Formal Indian Manufacturing Sector"

Kajal Lahiri (University at Albany - State University of New York), Karan Bhasin (University at Albany - State
University of New York), and Abhiman Das (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad): "Indian Inflation
Expectations: An Analysis Based on 271,000 Households, 2008-2022"

Session 7(h) Banking (Classroom 22) Chair: Sudipta Sen

Harish Kamal (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta), Samit Paul (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta),
and Avijit Bansal (Indian Institute of Management Calcutta): "Does an Exclusive Relationship with Government
Banks Matter during Climate Shocks?"

Nirupama Kulkarni (Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning), Karthik Narayan (University of
Oxford), and Akshat Singh (University of Oxford): "Banking Catch-22: Trading off Mark-to-Market and Default
Risk in the Presence of Guaranteed Deposits"

Prasenjit Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Management Ranchi), and Sudipta Sen (O.P. Jindal Global University):
"The Indian Banking Recapitalization Saga"
Session 7(i) Behavioural Economics I (Classroom 23) Chair: Sakshi Upadhyay
Arkadev Ghosh (Duke University), Prerna Kundu (University of British Columbia), Matt Lowe (University of
British Columbia), and Gareth Nellis (University of California San Diego): "Creating Cohesive Communities: A
Youth Camp Experiment in India"

Rajib Prasad (Jawaharlal Nehru University; Vidyasagar College for Women), and Sujoy Chakravarty (Jawaharlal
Nehru University): "Effect of Communication in Heterogeneous Group Contests with Incomplete Information: An
Experimental Analysis"

Sakshi Upadhyay (Skidmore College), Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech), and Sheryl Ball (Virginia Tech):
"Voluntary Public Goods Provision using a Coalition Mechanism: Some Experimental Results"

Session 7(j) Environment IV: Air Pollution (Classroom 24) Chair: Deepshikha Batheja
A. Patrick Behrer (World Bank), Rishabh Choudhary (World Bank), and Dhruv Sharma (World Bank): "Air
Pollution Reduces Economic Activity: Evidence from India"

Debarun Sengupta (Indian Institute of Science), Deep Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), and
Sarani Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur): "Are Indians Willing to Pay to Reduce Air Pollution?
Findings from Close-end Double-bound Contingent Valuation Study "

Deepshikha Batheja (One Health Trust), Sarojini Hirshleifer (University of California, Riverside), and Jamie T.
Mullins (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): "More than Particulate Matters: Pollution and Productivity in
Indian Call Centers"

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Parallel Sessions 8 20 December, Wednesday 02:15 PM – 04:00 PM
Session 8(a) Education V: Impact of Conflict (Conference Room) Chair: Anand Kumar
Akanksha Aggarwal (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi): "Crisis in Classrooms: Impact of Conflict on Student
Educational Achievement in India"
Ather Hassan Dar (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), Debayan Pakrashi (Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur; Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata), and Sounak Thakur (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur):
"Civil Unrest and Learning Outcomes in India"
Anand Kumar (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), Ritwik Banerjee (Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore), Aimable Nsabimana (UNU-WIDER), and Soham Sahoo (Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore): "Effect of Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconciliation on Education: Evidence from Rwanda"

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

Joseph Cummins (University of California, Riverside), Jingyan Guo (University of California, Riverside),
Neha Agarwal (University of Otago), Anaka Aiyar (University of Nevada, Reno), Vaishali Jain (University of
California, Riverside), and Andrew Bergmann (Ohio State University): "Caste Differences in Child Growth:
Disentangling Endowment and Investment Effects"
Esha Dwibedi (University of Washington), Abdelaziz Alsharawy (Princeton University), Jason Aimone
(Baylor University), and Sheryl Ball (Virginia Tech): "Public Health Messages Encouraging Emotion
Reappraisal Reduces Vaccine Hesitancy and Betrayal Aversion"
Zachary Wagner (RAND Corporation), Manoj Mohanan (Duke University), Rushil Zutshi (Pardee RAND
Graduate School), Arnab Mukherji (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), and Neeraj Sood (University
of Southern California): "What Drives the Know-Do Gap in Care for Child Diarrhea? Experimental Evidence
from Private Providers in India"

Session 8(c) Networks and Congestion (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Debopam Bhattacharya
Aranya Chakraborty (Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University): "Network-Based
Targeting with Heterogeneous Agents for Improving Technology Adoption"
Subhadeep Paul (The Ohio State University), Shanjukta Nath (University of Georgia), and Keith Warren (The
Ohio State University): "Identifying Peer Influence in Therapeutic Communities"
Debopam Bhattacharya (University of Cambridge): "Discrete Choice with Congestion"

Session 8(d) Political Economy VI (Auditorium) Chair: Anubhav Jha

Karan Mishra (Paris School of Economics): "Web of Discontent: Impact of 4G Internet on Political Outcomes
in India"
Anirvan Chowdhury (University of California, Berkeley): "Religiously Conservative Parties and Women's
Political Mobilization: Gender Norms and Political Participation in India"
Anubhav Jha (Princeton University): "Rally the Vote: Electoral Competition with Direct Campaign
Communication"

Session 8(e) Topics in Micro Theory (Classroom 11) Chair: Sanyyam Khurana
Mohsen Pourpouneh (University of Oxford), Rasoul Ramezanian (HEC Lausanne), Arunava Sen (Indian
Statistical Institute Delhi), and Vilok Taori (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi): "Assignment Game with Private
Payments"
Anuj Bhowmik (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata), and Sandipan Saha (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata):
"Bargaining-Equilibrium Equivalence"
Sanyyam Khurana (TERI School of Advanced Studies): "Symmetric Auctions with Resale"

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Parallel Sessions 8 (continued…) 20 December, Wednesday 02:15 PM – 04:00 PM
Session 8(f) Topics in Macroeconomics IV (Classroom 13) Chair: Vipin Pudiyadath Veetil
Suruchi Shrimali (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) and Wasim Ahmad (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur):
"Analysing the Role of Central Bank's Communication and Asset Markets in the Flow of Information"

Aditi Singh (Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence), and Anushka Mitra (The University of Texas at Austin): "What
Determines Household Expectations?"

Antoine Mandel (Paris School of Economics), and Vipin Pudiyadath Veetil (Indian Institute of Management
Kozhikode): "Rivalrous Competition and Macroeconomic Volatility"

Session 8(g) Macroeconomics: Indian Experience II (Classroom 14) Chair: Manish Chauhan
Darpajit Sengupta (Jadavpur University), and Saikat Sinha Roy (Jadavpur University): "Exchange Rate Pass-Through,
Monetary Policy, and Currency Invoicing: An Analysis within a DSGE Framework for India"

Paras Sachdeva (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), and Wasim Ahmad (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur):
"The Active and Passive Fiscal-Monetary Policy Regimes and India’s Government Expenditure Shocks: Which Stand
Matters the Most?"

Manish Chauhan (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), Somesh Kumar Mathur (Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur), and Praveen Kulshreshtha (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur): "Spatial Convergence among Indian
Districts: An Econometric Evidence "

Session 8(h) Real Estate and Finance II (Classroom 22) Chair: Ruchi Singh
Chenchen Huang (University of Bath), Di Luo (University of Southampton), Soumyatanu Mukherjee (XLRI Xavier
School of Management | Delhi-NCR), and Tapas Mishra (University of Southampton): "To Acquire or to Ally?
Managing Partners Environmental Risk in International Expansion"

Yogeshwar Bharat (Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning), Subhadeep Halder (Indian Statistical
Institute Delhi), and Nirupama Kulkarni (Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning): "Asset-side
Implications of Banks Funding Costs"

Daniel McMillen (University of Illinois at Chicago), and Ruchi Singh (University of Georgia): "Assessment Persistence"

Session 8(i) Behavioural Economics II (Classroom 23) Chair: Prasenjit Banerjee

Mahima Mukhija (Ashoka University): "Deadlines, Procrastination and Task Quality: Role of Missing Information
Regarding Task Difficulty"

Subrato Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), and Shilpi Mukherjee (Keystone Strategy): "Doubt:
Insights from a Cross-cultural Experiment"

Prasenjit Banerjee (University of Manchester; XLRI Jamshedpur), Vegard Iversen (University of Greenwich), Sandip
Mitra (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata), and Kunal Sen (UNU-WIDER): "Politicians, Institutions and Citizen Welfare:
Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in India "

Session 8(j) Agriculture III (Classroom 24) Chair: Shanjukta Nath

Nikita Gupta (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad), Poornima Varma (Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad), and Gopinath Munisamy (University of Georgia): "Rise in Alternate Marketing Channels and Spatial Price
Transmission: The Case of Indian Agricultural Wholesale Markets"

Muddasir Ahmad Akhoon (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad), Abhishek Shaw (Indian Institute of
Management Ahmedabad), and Vidya Vemireddy (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad): "Policy Evaluation in
the Absence of Survey Data: Customised Border Designs with Satellite Data"

Shanjukta Nath (University of Georgia), Susan Athey (Stanford University), Shawn Cole (Harvard University), and
Jessica Zhu (Precision Development): "Targeting, Personalization, and Engagement in an Agricultural Advisory Service"

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