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Big Data, Big Promise, Big Challenge: Can Small Area Estimation Play a Role in the Big Data Centric World?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-09)
The demand for various socio-economic, transportation, and health statistics for small geographical areas is steadily increasing at a time when survey agencies are desperately looking for ways to reduce costs to meet fixed ...
Search: then and now with particular reference to the web
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-10)
Nowadays, we take web search engines for granted. For many people, their favourite search engine (Google or some other) is their primary or even sole entry-point to the web. Not only that -- it also, in some sense, _is_ ...
Major Determinants of World Agricultural Trade
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-27)
Agricultural world trade is heavily impacted by comparative advantage, trade policies, domestic farm policies, gravity factors, and transport costs. Comparative advantage is determined by Ricardian productivity differences ...
Rational Choices: An Ecological Foundation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-16)
We address the oft-repeated criticism that the demands which the rational choice approach makes on the knowledge and cognition of a decision maker (DM) are way beyond the capabilities of typical human intelligence. Our key ...
Health communications: Going from aversion to persuasion
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-13)
In this talk, I will present a sampling of studies that investigate factors and processes that shape health persuasion. We will examine whether and why people are averse to health persuasion and how these barriers can be ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Minimum wages in India: current status and future prospects
(Policy in Focus (IPC-IG/UNDP), 2018-09)