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    • Inclusive education in Delhi: Understating teachers' perspectives and beliefs 

      Tiwari, Ashwini (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-21)
      This study examines the perceptions and beliefs of general education teachers about the inclusion of students with disabilities (SWDs) in regular education classrooms. Using hermeneutic phenomenology as a methodological ...
    • Major Determinants of World Agricultural Trade 

      Devadoss, Stephen (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 ...
    • Search: then and now with particular reference to the web 

      Robertson, Stephen (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_ ...
    • Rational Choices: An Ecological Foundation 

      Borah, Abhinash (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 ...
    • Diffusing Coordination Risk 

      Basak, Deepal (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 

      Warglien, Massimo (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 ...
    • Poverty Index with Time-Varying Consumption and Income Distributions 

      Kumar, T. Krishna (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 ...
    • Panel Discussion on Doctor-Patient Communication: Issues and Challenges 

      Unknown author (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-02-28)
      where representatives from the doctor community, hospital managers from both private and public sector hospitals, the general public, and academics would share their perspectives. The Panelists are: • Dr. Indu Arneja, ...
    • Round Table Panel Discussion on Violence against Doctors 

      Unknown author (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-21)
      IIMA invited representatives from police, doctor community (Indian Medical Association), media, legal fraternity, hospital managers from both private and public sector hospitals, general public, and academics would share ...
    • Launch of marriage portal for PLHIV on at IIMA 

      Dholakia, Govind (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-08-21)
      For about past two years we have been working with Gujarat State network of Positive People (GSNP+), a community based organisation (CBO), that works for issues faced by people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV). One of the ...
    • Caring and Honoring of Female Organ Donors 

      Gumber, Manoj (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-09)
      The CMHS seminar held at KLMDC Auditorium-2, IIM Old Campus IIMA on March 09, 2018 by Dr. Manoj Gumber Consultant Nephrologist & Transplant Physician Apollo Hospitals International Limited, Ahmedabad on Caring and Honoring ...
    • 53rd Annual Convocation (2018) 

      Sinha, Janmejaya; Datar, Srikant M.; D'Souza, Errol (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-24)
      53rd Annual Convocation held at IIM Ahmedabad (1) Chief Guest - Dr. Janmejaya Sinha, Chairman, Asia-Pacific of The Boston Consulting Group. (2) Officiating Chairman - Dr. Srikant M. Datar (3) Director - Prof. Errol D'Souza
    • Linking literacy and mobile phone usage among women: Evidence from a women's adult literacy programme in India 

      Chadha, Nishant (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 ...
    • How long the shadow of the city? The impact of urbanisation on schooling 

      Chadha, Nishant (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 ...
    • Cost Management Research 

      Banker, Rajiv D. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-14)
      The traditional view of cost behavior assumes a simple mechanistic relation between cost drivers and costs. In contrast, contemporary cost management research recognizes that costs are caused by managers’ operating decisions ...
    • Health communications: Going from aversion to persuasion 

      Agarwal, Nidhi (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 ...
    • Big Data, Big Promise, Big Challenge: Can Small Area Estimation Play a Role in the Big Data Centric World? 

      Lahiri, Partha (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 ...
    • Do Families Reduce or Raise Agency Conflicts? The Ratio of Board Control to Ownership 

      Uhlenbruck, Klaus (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-08)
      Large family owners monitor managers, which attenuates principal-agent conflicts and improves firm performance. However, these owners can also appropriate resources, which creates principal-principal conflicts and harms ...
    • Cross-market integration and sabotage 

      Vakharia, Asoo J. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-14)
      "Sabotage" includes a set of firm-specific, non-price related actions negatively influencing competitor's outcomes. There are a large number of potential sabotage options available to integrated firms in direct competition ...
    • Growth out of the blue: nightlight and economic activity 

      Rama, Martin (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 ...