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Diffusing Coordination Risk
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-02)
Agents face strategic uncertainty in a regime change game that is akin to debt rollover. A mass of agents sequentially decide whether to attack a regime or not, but they do not observe the past actions of other agents. A ...
Linking literacy and mobile phone usage among women: Evidence from a women's adult literacy programme in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-16)
In this paper we evaluate the impact of a female adult literacy programme (FALP henceforth) on the ownership, access and use of mobile phones among its participants. Using a mixed methods research design, we present both ...
Hierarchical decision-making produces persistent differences in learning performance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-02)
Human organizations are commonly characterized by a hierarchical chain of command that facilitates division of labor and integration of effort. Higher-level employees set the strategic frame that constrains lower-level ...
Growth out of the blue: nightlight and economic activity
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-14)
Measuring GDP is especially challenging in developing countries, where the informal sector is large and institutional constraints can be severe. As a result, GDP growth estimates are often met with skepticism. But new ...
Economic measures of capacity utilization: A nonparametric cost function analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-05)
Cost based measures of capacity utilization and capacity output are important metrics for evaluating firm performance. Understanding where firms are producing on their average cost curve provides information about whether ...
Different Worlds Together: How Researchers and Practitioners Co-create Knowledge
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-05)
The communities of research and practice are embedded in epistemic cultures that favor specific strategies, practices, and apparatus – in other words, ways of knowing. Scholars have investigated the differences between ...
How long the shadow of the city? The impact of urbanisation on schooling
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-16)
What is the impact of rapid urbanisation on rural schooling? In this paper we use data from the district of Gautam Buddha Nagar, lying in Uttar Pradesh and bordering Delhi, to answer this question. This district has seen ...
Poverty Index with Time-Varying Consumption and Income Distributions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-01)
Poverty is defined as degree of deprivation in consumption of an essential commodity. Employing Ernst Engel’s approach we derive a hierarchy of needs and identify the basic needs. We then use the Engel curve for that ...
A spatial hedonic analysis of the value of groundwater to agriculture
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-08)
Groundwater provides many valuable services to society, especially as a source of irrigation water. However, over-extraction and degradation threaten the ability of many groundwater systems to continue to provide such ...
Weather, Affect, and Consumption Preference for Hedonic and Utilitarian Products: The Moderating Role of Gender
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-22)
How and why does the association between weather and hedonic consumption differ between males and females? This paper theorizes that females have a stronger affective response to weather conditions, which subsequently ...