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Anirban Mukherjee

University of Calcutta
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Anirban Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Calcutta. Before joining the University of Calcutta, he taught at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. An alumnus of Presidency College, Calcutta and the Department of Economics, University of Calcutta, Dr. Mukherjee got his Ph.D. from the Department of Economics, University of British Columbia (currently known as Vancouver School of Economics). His research projects focus on the issues of identity formation, interactions between community and formal institutions, and their impact on economic outcomes. The broad areas of his teaching and research interests are economic history, institutional economics, and development economics.

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वर्ग और जाति किस प्रकार से स्कूल के चुनाव को प्रभावित करते हैं

माता-पिता द्वारा अपने बच्चों की शिक्षा के सम्बन्ध में लिए जाने वाले निर्णयों पर परिवार की सामाजिक-आर्थिक स्थिति प्रभाव डालती है। जाति और वर्ग की परस्पर-क्रिया को ध्यान में रखते हुए, यह लेख दर्शाता है ...

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How class and caste influence school choice

Families' socioeconomic status impacts how parents make decisions regarding their children's education. Taking into account the interplay of caste and class, this paper finds that when families are to...

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Teacher-student gender matching and learning outcomes

Studies have found positive effects of teacher-student gender matching on students’ learning outcomes in certain countries. Based on a theoretical model – tested empirically with survey data from ...

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Court congestion, caste identity, and business performance

Effective contract enforcement is the key for the formation and expansion of business enterprises. But how does improvement in court performance matter differently to different caste groups? This arti...

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