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Anirban Mukherjee
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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Network membership and demand for health insurance
Despite being free and having liberal eligibility criteria, the adoption of public health insurance in India remains low. This article examines how informal networks influence adoption behaviour, in the context of Andhra Pradesh’s Aarogyasri programme. It shows that network type matters: information networks do not significantly impact the uptake of public insurance, whereas financial networks actually facilitate, rather than hinder, public insurance adoption.
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 Andhra Pradesh – this article shows that the positive effect in the Indian context seems to be a consequence of higher quality female teachers and more competent female students ‘self-selecting’ into urban, private schools on account of gender norms and institutional structures of teacher hiring.
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 कि परिवार जब बहुत अमीर या बहुत गरीब होते हैं, तब उनकी जाति की पहचान स्कूल के चुनाव के उनके निर्णयों को प्रभावित नहीं करती है। लेकिन, संपत्ति-वितरण के बीच में आने वाले वर्गों के लिए, जाति की पहचान बहुत मायने रखती है- वंचित जातियों के छात्र, जिनके माता-पिता श्रम बाज़ार में अच्छी तरह से जुड़े नहीं होते, उन्हें शिक्षा के रिटर्न कम मिलते हैं।
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 too rich or too poor their caste identity does not affect their decisions about school choice. However, it is in the middle of the wealth distribution that caste identity matters most – students from disadvantaged castes whose parents are not as well connected in the labour market see lower returns to education.
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 article shows that the benefit of an efficient judiciary is higher for first-time entrepreneurs within communities that lack traditional informal business networks. This implies that besides other factors, improvements in court quality can be instrumental in enhancing social mobility.