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Parijat Lal

Columbia University
pl2700@columbia.edu

Parijat Lal is a postdoctoral researcher with Joseph Stiglitz at Columbia University. He is interested in studying development and inequality through the lens of public and labour economics. He received his PhD in Economics from Columbia University and holds a BA in Economics from Harvard University. His research spans work on the effects of withholding taxes on trade in services, import tax evasion in Uganda, public service delivery in India, and the intersection between industrial reform and cooperative ownership in India. 

Parijat has also worked with the UNDP, the IMF, and JPAL South Asia and has been a consultant on projects for the World Bank, WHO, and USAID through Dalberg Advisors.

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क्या सार्वजनिक सेवाओं में सब्सिडी से बाज़ार अनुशासित होते हैं या मांग का स्वरूप खराब हो जाता है?

पूर्व में हुए शोधों ने भारत के प्रमुख सुरक्षित मातृत्व कार्यक्रम की विफलता को दर्ज किया है- यह कार्यक्रम प्रसवकालीन मृत्यु दर को कम करने में विफल रहा है जबकि सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य सुविधाओं में प्रसव करा...

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Does subsidising publicly provided services discipline markets or distort demand?

Prior research has documented the failure of India’s flagship safe motherhood programme in reducing perinatal mortality, despite substantially increasing the share of mothers delivering at public he...

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