Miscellany

Understanding cultural persistence and change

When does culture persist and when does it change? This column examines a determinant that has been put forth in the anthropology literature: the variability of the environment from one generation to...

Paola Giuliano Nathan Nunn
07 March, 2018

Articles

Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze

I4I Editor-in-Chief Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze, visiting Professor at Ranchi University and an ‘economist-activist’ who has been working in India at the grassroots level for a long time...

Jean Drèze Ashok Kotwal
28 March, 2018

Notes

Fundamental errors in the voting booth margins

Psychologists have long documented that we over-attribute people's actions to innate characteristics rather than to circumstances. This column shows that when we commit this ‘fundamental attribution...

Edward Glaeser Giacomo Ponzetto
17 November, 2017

Articles

Research gaps and policy priorities: Evidence from Bihar

The gap between research and policy priorities has always presented an enormous challenge both for academics and policymakers. With a scarcity of rigorous evidence in certain areas, this gap is partic...

Kumar Das
09 May, 2018

IGC Research on India

Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze

Jean Drèze Ashok Kotwal
28 March, 2018

Notes

Introduction to e-Symposium: Firms and labour productivity

Eighty per cent of India’s labour force works ‘informally’. Providing employment with decent wages and benefits to this segment requires structural transformation of the economy to more high-pr...

Farzana Afridi
12 March, 2018

Symposia

Understanding cultural persistence and change

Paola Giuliano Nathan Nunn
07 March, 2018

Articles

Economics among the road scholars

Jholawala Economics’ is a derogatory term that the urban elites use to dismiss the arguments of social activists without having to contend with them. However, some of the jholawalas are indeed first...

Jean Drèze
22 December, 2017

Perspectives

Fundamental errors in the voting booth margins

Edward Glaeser Giacomo Ponzetto
17 November, 2017

Articles

Introducing a new feature: – ‘Explainers’

Our day-to-day lives are tossed around due to economic changes, resulting sometimes from government policies and sometimes by unidentifiable forces of the world economy. Governments always label every...

Ashok Kotwal
16 October, 2017

Perspectives

Humanising economics

In a tribute to Richard Thaler, recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics, Ashok Kotwal and Nalini Gulati discuss his pioneering work on decision-making that lies in the space between econom...

Nalini Gulati Ashok Kotwal
10 October, 2017

Perspectives

Using drones for social sector research

While drones have historically been used in military operations, their application for peaceful purposes has risen steeply in recent years. In this note, representatives from Outline India - a resear...

Prerna Mukharya
19 June, 2017

Notes

Kenneth Arrow, 1921-2017

In a tribute to Kenneth Arrow, Debraj Ray, Professor of Economics at NYU, outlines the contributions of the late Nobel laureate to economic thought.

Debraj Ray
02 March, 2017

Perspectives

John Nash and modern economic theory

In a tribute to John Nash, Parikshit Ghosh, Associate Professor at Delhi School of Economics, outlines the revolutionary contributions of the late Nobel laureate to economic thought.

Parikshit Ghosh
04 June, 2015

Perspectives

Clicks and editorial decisions: How does popularity shape online news coverage?

Identifying whether newspaper editors focus on what is ‘newsworthy’ or what is ‘trendy’ when choosing stories is important for the design of media regulation. This column shows how the popula...