Public versus Private College Education in Developing Countries: Economic ans Social Implications in India
Tertiary education has fuelled the economic growth in India in recent times. This has in turn generated excess demand for a highly educated and skilled workforce.
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Sheetal Sekhri 
01 April, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2012
Cognitive Effects of Supplementary School Feeding Programme
This project uses the exogenous policy shock of the extension of provision of school meals to upper primary grades in public schools in Delhi to study the effects of school meal intake on the cognitive effort of students within the classroom.
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Bidisha Barooah Farzana Afridi Rohini Somanathan
- 01 April, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2012
Note on Reserve Currencies
This project examines the likelihood that the current reserve currencies will retain their status in the near future, given the persistence in the composition of reserve holdings. However, due to paucity of complete data on the switchovers in lead reserve currencies, a great deal of uncertainty atte...
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Menzie Chinn
- 01 April, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2012
Role of Derivatives in India's Financial Development
The annals of financial history are littered with stories of corporations and financial institutions which collapsed when a deterioration in market conditions led to massive losses in the derivatives portfolio – occasionally, even in cases where the derivatives were being used to hedge existing ex...
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Rangarajan K. Sundaram
- 01 April, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2012
Education Policies and Practices
The objective of this project was to study the status of education in Bihar both in absolute terms and in relation to other states in India and also to identify best practices in education policies and make policy recommendations for Bihar. The findings showed that in terms of quality education, Bih...
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Nishith Prakash
- 01 April, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2012
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 exploit social rather than economic incentives to increase tax payments.
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Raj Chetty
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2012
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 asymmetric information regarding prices in neighbouring wholesale markets where local traders resell...
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Dilip Mookherjee Pushkar Maitra Sandip Mitra Sujata Visaria
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Trade
Year: 2012
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 Indian mortgage provider, relating loan pricing and delinquency rates to the changing details of Indi...
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John Campbell Tarun Ramadorai
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2012
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 CEOs’ diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion, and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labour ...
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Andrea Prat Oriana Bandiera Raffaella Sadun
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2012
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 reduce the costs of pollution reduction and thus transform the trade-off between environmental quality a...
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Anant Sudarshan Michael Greenstone Nicholas Ryan Rohini Pande
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Environment
Year: 2012
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.
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James Berry Lucas Coffman
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2012
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.
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Abhijit Banerjee Esther Duflo Rohini Pande
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Governance
Year: 2012