Browsing by Author "Dev, Pritha"

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    • Ageing and the rising our prominence of elderly care segment 

      Dhar, Arijit; Damodaran, Vinay; Gandhi, Gopi Santhilal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-12)
      Ageing is a biological and psychological reality that most of us are going to face. This involves the weakening of physical, mental and social abilities. This span of old age and the percentage of population falling in the ...

    • Amazon v/s flipkart – the ‘nash’ way 

      Jhunjhunwala, Raghaw; Datta, Shameek; Gupta, Vineet (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
      The purpose of this study is to study the different strategies deployed by Amazon and Flipkart in the E-commerce market and analyzing those moves in the game theory context. The study then introduces some modifications of ...

    • Breaking “bad” links: impact of Companies Act 2013 on the Indian corporate network 

      Aggarwal, M.; Chakrabarti, Anindya; Dev, Pritha (Social Networks, 2020)
      Board interlock networks are known to exhibit concentration of influence by a small group of elites. In this paper, we study a policy intervention aiming to curb this influence. We analyze the evolution of Indian board ...

    • Comparison of risk-taking behaviours among man and women in competitive examinations 

      Dasgupta, Abheek (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      It is an often-asked question as to why do woman students not fare as well in competitive examinations for admission to colleges as male students when they perform better in non-competitive board examinations almost every ...

    • COVID-19 and period products usage among menstruating women in urban and rural India 

      Babbar, Karan; Dev, Pritha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-03)
      This paper estimates the impact of the lockdown across various zones on the period product consumption for menstruating women in India. We have used the national-level panel data from the CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Household ...

    • COVID-19 impact on Indian economy: a sectoral deep-dive into automobile, banking & retail industry 

      Tapuriah, Sudarshan; Kamath, Vijay; Mehta, Viral (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)
      In the last leg of Dec’19, Wuhan city in China had started experiencing abnormal increase in pneumonia cases and reported first time on 31st Dec’19 about this phenomena. The virus was named novel Corona Virus (nCoV), China ...

    • Domestic workers and sexual harassment in India: examining preferred response strategies 

      Vijayalakshmi, Akshaya; Dev, Pritha; Kulkarni, Vaibhavi (Elsevier, 2022-03-30)
      The purpose of this research is to understand how women working as domestic workers, who are part of the informal sector, are likely to respond to sexual harassment incidents. Unlike the organized sector, women in informal ...

    • Effect of gender based violence on women autonomy 

      Sethi, Abhishek (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      The objective of the project is to understand the effect of women autonomy in Indian households. For the purpose of the project, we define violence in its physical form (slapping, beating, etc) by husbands on their wives. ...

    • Ethnic inequality: theory and evidence from formal education in Nigeria 

      Dev, Pritha; Mberu, B. U.; Pongou, R. (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
      Inequality across social groups with distinct identities and cultures is one of the most important issues facing modern societies. Disparities in economic opportunities, employment, earnings, and asset holding are generally ...

    • Factors affecting network formation among students at IIMA 

      Rai, Anjali; Agrawal, Ashish; Prakash, Dudhe Pranjali; Sachan, Srishti (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
      Networks are of great importance in an educational institution due to various advantages they offer. Networks formed at an educational institution are influenced by a vast multitude of factors including, but not limited to, ...

    • Group identity in a network formation game with cost sharing 

      Dev, Pritha (Wiley, 2018-01)
      This paper introduces the choice of group identity, which is comprisedof characteristics and commitments to these characteristics,in a network formation model where links costs are shared. Playerswant to link to the largest ...

    • How COVID-19 lockdown has impacted the sanitary pads distribution among adolescent girls and women in India 

      Babbar, Karan; Rustagi, Niharika; Dev, Pritha (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), 2022-07-26)
      This paper empirically explores the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying lockdown on adolescent girls’ and women's access to sanitary pads in India. We have used the National Health Mission's Health Management ...

    • How macroeconomic shocks impact employment: comparison of Gujarat with states in Western India 

      Unni, Jeemol; Dev, Pritha (SPRINGER INDIA, 2021)
      In this paper, we discuss the impact of the macroeconomic shock of demonetisation on employment in the five Western states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. We analyse the impact of the ...

    • Modelling the impact of ovulatory cycle knowledge on the number of children and age of women at first birth 

      Babbar, Karan; Dev, Pritha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-04)
      Unplanned pregnancies are an important public health issue, and 15% of unplanned pregnancies across the world happen in India. Ovulatory cycle knowledge (OCK) is an important yet relatively unexplored component in ...

    • More is not always better: the case of counter terrorism security 

      Dev, Pritha; Grabiszewski, Konrad (Sage, 2019-01-11)
      Can counterterrorism security be counterproductive? We argue that it can be when the at-risk population acts strategically. We model a two-stage game where the government first chooses the defensive security level for a ...

    • Motherhood and negotiations 

      Shah, Vidhi; Boriwal, Vinay (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-03-21)
      When it comes to suitable negotiation results, men and women frequently disagree. Men demand "equitable" distributions, but women believe in "equal" exchanges (Lewicki et al, 1994). These biases may lead female negotiators ...

    • Networks of information exchange: Are link formation decisions strategic? 

      Dev, Pritha (Elseveir, 2018)
      This paper presents an empirical investigation into whether the decision to form a link with a node takes into account how well connected that node is. Given data in the form of a random sample from a network, this paper ...

    • No lockdown for abuse 

      Vijayalakshmi, Akshaya; Dev, Pritha (The Hindu, 2020-04-09)

    • Online education in India: market assessment & strategies adopted by key existing players 

      Walia, Saurabh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      As per KPMG report titled online education in India: 2021, India's online education market is set to grow to USD 1.96 billion and around 9.6 million users by 2021. Moreover, with the recent Covid-19 scenario, the growth ...

    • People, not the state, must own their data 

      Souza, Errol D; Dev, Pritha (Business Line, 2019-03-21)