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Women’s labor force participation and household technology adoption
(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 ...
Gravity and depth of social media networks
(Oxford University Press, 2021-05-27)
Structures of social media networks provide a composite view of dyadic connectivity across social actors, which reveals the spread of local and global influences of those actors in the network. Although social media network ...
Dynamic interactions between foreign institutional investment flows and stock market returns � The case of India
(Wyzsza Szkola Finansow i Zarzadzania w Warszawie, 2015)
There has been a marked increase in the magnitude of Foreign Institutional Investments (FIIs) into India since the 1990s, resulting in increased forex reserves and liquidity and a higher-valued Indian capital market. ...
Participation dynamics in multiple-peril agricultural insurance: insights from India
(Elsevier, 2022-01-05)
Multiple-peril agricultural insurance, although operational in many developing countries, evokes mixed responses among smallholder farmers. In this context, we analyse the farmer-specific characteristics that are most ...
Impostor Phenomenon Among Hispanic/Latino Early Career Researchers in STEM Fields
(Taylor and Francis, 2022-09-21)
Impostor phenomenon (IP) is an experience of psychological discomfort where some high-achieving people disbelieve their success. Those experiencing IP feel undeserving and fear being discovered as a fraud in one’s area of ...
Antecedents to innovation in emerging markets: evidence from India
(International Journal of Innovation Management, 2019)
Firms utilise both internal and external knowledge reservoirs in order to innovate. This study explores the drivers of innovation specifically, role of business groups, alliances, degree of internationalisation and financial ...
Do Activity-Based Incentive Plans Work? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-03-29)
Despite theory-based expectations, and actual usage in practice, we lack any evidence about sales productivity gains from activity-based incentive (ABI) pay. Such plans incorporate activity scores from salespersons’ call ...
Can academic integration reduce the economic divide: An Analysis of the RTE Act in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-02-18)
The Right to Education (RtE) Act enforced in 2009 requires all private schools in India to admit 25% children from economically weaker sections. If successful, the act may play a key role in reducing the widening social ...
An infrastructure investment methodology to risk mitigation from rail hazmat shipments
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-25)
A significant majority of hazardous materials (hazmat), including those integral to sustain our industrial lifestyle such as crude oil, are produced and consumed at different locations, and therefore need to be transported ...
The Contingent Impact of Failing Fast on Salesperson Performance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-18)
Sales is a profession that faces an inordinate amount of failure. When salespeople fail and face rejection from the customer, the consequences can be widespread and lasting. Perhaps, however, salespeople should not aim to ...