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Status-based taxation: A proposal to increase tax revenue collection
This project explores whether concerns for social status can be exploited as a 'carrot' to encourage tax compliance and increase tax revenue collection in developing countries. The central idea is to ...
- Raj Chetty
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Middleman Margins, Credit and Information Constraints: Potato Markets in West Bengal, India
This project investigates how potato farmers in West Bengal sell their crop to local traders, the determinants of farm-gate prices and margins earned by traders. Specifically, it examines the role of ...
- Pushkar Maitra Sandip Mitra Dilip Mookherjee Sujata Visaria
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Household Finance in India
How does mortgage regulation influence the structure and performance of housing finance? This project answers the question by analysing administrative data on over 1.2 million loans originated by an I...
- John Campbell Tarun Ramadorai
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
What do Indian CEOs do? Time Use of Indian Top Executives: Determinants and Implications for Growth
This project presents evidence on the labour supply of CEOs, and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. It does so through a new survey instrument that allows it to codify C...
- Oriana Bandiera Andrea Prat Raffaella Sadun
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Emissions Trading as an Environmental Innovation in India: Measuring the Policy Impact on Emissions and Abatement Costs
Growth in developing countries has improved living standards of millions, but has led to high pollution concentrations and serious public health damages. Market-based environmental regulation can redu...
- Michael Greenstone Rohini Pande Nicholas Ryan Anant Sudarshan
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Belief Formation of the Returns to Schooling and How to De-Bias Incorrect Beliefs
This project investigates how poor households in rural and urban Rajasthan form beliefs about the value of additional years of schooling.
- James Berry Lucas Coffman
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Enhancing Local Public Service Delivery: Experimental Evidence on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) is among the largest social protection programmes in the world.
- Abhijit Banerjee Esther Duflo Rohini Pande
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Designing microfinance for agricultural growth
Credit and information constraints are particularly acute for farmers in developing countries, and can have a strong impact on their productivity.
- Pushkar Maitra Sandip Mitra Dilip Mookherjee Alberto Motta Sujata Visaria
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Understanding fiscal capacity in developing economies: Firms as third-party tax enforcers
The difference in tax revenues (as a percentage of GDP) between developed and developing countries has always been consistently large. An IMF report estimates it to be 10-15 percentage points.
- Henrik Kleven Claus Kreiner Emmanuel Saez
- 01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Third-party environmental auditing
High levels of industrial pollution are a harmful by-product of growth. The Indian state of Gujarat is an industrial powerhouse with about 5% of the Indian population, but 9% of India’s registered man...
- Esther Duflo Michael Greenstone Rohini Pande Nicholas Ryan
- 01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Linkages among Capital Flows, Trade, and Growth in Developing Economies
International economic integration puts a country’s fortunes partly into the hands of others. When integration takes the form of financial interdependence, the potential domestic impact of external ev...
- Maurice Obstfeld
- 01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Land Acquisition for Business and Compensation of Displaced Farmers
This project addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialisation ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are lea...
- Maitreesh Ghatak Sandip Mitra Dilip Mookherjee
- 01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India