Browsing by Author "Jain, Tarun"

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    • Analysing the impact of the Fee Regulation Act (FRA, 2017) on private schools in Gujarat 

      Kumar, Shivam; Bansal, Vertika (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      The Gujarat government passed a law called the Gujarat Self-Financed Schools (Regulation of Fees) Act 2017 to regulate the fee charged by private schools in Gujarat. The aim is to control the exorbitant fees the private ...

    • Female leaders and their response to the social environment 

      Gangadharan, Lata; Jain, Tarun; Maitra, Pushkar; Vecci, Joseph (Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019)
      Using data from two sets of experiments conducted in rural India, this paper finds that relative to men, women assigned to be leaders contribute less than what they propose in a public goods game. We examine whether this ...

    • Impact of education loans in India 

      Virk, Harleen; Rajkotwala, Mukarram (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      Economic growth of a country is influenced by the education levels possessed by its citizens. In India, in order to make education more accessible and affordable, the Indian Bank Association prepared the Model Education ...

    • Impact of infrastructural developments on student's learning in Delhi govt. schools 

      Dhiman, Aastha; Kaur, Ravneet (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      Education has consistently been recognized as the cornerstone of development for any country or region and one of the highest return rewarding development activities. Education outcome is influenced by several factors, ...

    • Impact of price capping in the market of Covid tests 

      Singh, Nishant Ketan; Jain, Srishti (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)
      With the first case of COVID-19 discovered in December’19 in Wuhan, China, COVID came knocking on India’s doors in January’20. With the first lockdown announced in March’20 in India, it was clear that rough times lay ...

    • Lights out? COVID-19 containment policies and economic activity 

      Beyer, Robert C.M.; Jain, Tarun; Sinha, Sonalika (Elsevier, 2023-02-15)
      This paper estimates how strongly COVID-19 containment policies have impacted aggregate economic activity. We use a difference-in-differences methodology to estimate how containment zones of different severity across ...

    • Make states healthy again 

      Jain, Tarun; Ghatak, Maitreesh (Economic Times, 2020-06-05)

    • Measuring gender attitudes: developing and testing Implicit Association Tests for adolescents in India 

      Jain, Tarun; Dhar, Diva; Kapoor, Vrinda; Kapur, Vrinda; Raj, Anita (PLOS, 2022-06-16)
      We develop and test gender attitude measures conducted with a school-based sample of adolescents aged 14–17 years in India. We test a measure with survey items and vignettes to capture gender-based value and stereotypes, ...

    • Peer influence and IT career choice 

      Langer, Nishtha; Jain, Tarun (Informs, 2023-07-03)
      The productivity of the information technology (IT) industry depends on the supply of high-quality human capital, especially of managers who contribute to operational, finance, sales and marketing, and leadership roles. ...

    • Portfolio optimization on a of set of indices 

      Jain, Prateek; Jain, Tarun (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2008)

    • Reshaping adolescents' gender attitudes: evidence from a school-based experiment in India 

      Jain, Tarun; Dhar, Diva; Jayachandran, Seema (American Economic Association, 2022-03)
      This paper evaluates an intervention in India that engaged adolescent girls and boys in classroom discussions about gender equality for two years, aiming to reduce their support for societal norms that restrict women's and ...

    • Science education and labor market outcomes in a developing economy 

      Jain, Tarun; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Prakash, Nishith; Rakesh, Raghav (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021-10-16)
      We examine the association between studying science in higher secondaryschool and labor market earnings in India. Studying science in high school isassociated with 22% greater earnings than studying business or humanities.Earnings ...

    • Social connections and tertiary healthcare utilization 

      Debnath, Sisir; Jain, Tarun (Health Economics, 2020)
      The use of tertiary health care by socially proximate peers helps individuals learn about program and treatment procedures, signals that using such care is socially appropriate, and could support the use of formal health ...

    • Strategic challenge of B2B commerce 

      Jain, Tarun; Vaidyan, Sheril V. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2000-03)

    • Women’s labor force participation and household technology adoption 

      Bose, Gautam; Jain, Tarun; Walker, Sarah (Elsevier, 2022-06-15)
      We examine how women’s employment leads to household technology adoption in the context of mid-century United States. Using World War II factories and male casualty rates as an instrument for female labor demand, we find ...