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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 ...
Does Learning from Inspections Affect Environmental Performance? - Evidence from Unconventional Well Development in Pennsylvania
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-12-22)
With the growing awareness that operations can affect the environment, regulators increasingly use facility inspections to assess a firm’s environmental performance: whether its operations comply with or violate environmental ...
The formation of partnerships in social networks
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-08-17)
This paper analyzes the formation of partnerships in social networks. Agents randomly request favors and turn to their neighbours to form a partnership. If favors are costly, agents have an incentive to delay the formation ...
Intellectual Property Regimes, Technology Adoption and Organization of Firms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-07-26)
Recent debates have emerged in understanding the role of globalization on the demand for more skilled workers or executives and organization of firms, even in developing countries. However, there remains little or no ...
Does Health Influence Risk Preference?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-16)
This paper investigates whether self-assessed health (SAH) status—a measure of health stock—influences the risk preference of an individual. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we ...
Selection of Inputs and Outputs in Data Envelopment Analysis
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-01-09)
Productive efficiency lies in producing the maximum output from a given bundle of inputs or using the minimal input for a target bundle of outputs. The method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) introduced in the OR/MS ...