Faculty Publications (Bibliographic): Recent submissions
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Did India’s price control policy for coronary stents create unintended consequences?
(Social Science & Medicine, 2020)In February 2017, India capped the retail price of coronary stents and restricted the channel margin to bring Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) procedure, which uses coronary stents, within reach of ... -
Falling from digital grace: participation in online software contests following loss of status
(Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019)We consider an online platform for software coding contests, with a focus on the effects of status loss on decisions to participate in subsequent contests. We advance the literature on the status and online contests in ... -
Interplay between constraints and rewards in innovation tournaments: implications for participation
(International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 2020)In this study, we examine how the monetary rewards and competitive constraints that organizers of innovation tournaments incorporate are associated with participation. These two aspects of innovation tournaments are crucial ... -
Women’s political leadership and economic empowerment: evidence from public works in India
(Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020)Despite recent advances, women trail men in political participation, especially in developing countries where the long-term economic benefits from empowering women politically have not been well-researched. We use data ... -
Inheritance law reform, empowerment, and human capital accumulation: second-generation effects from India
(Journal of Development Studies, 2018)Although many studies point towards significant positive impacts of Hindu Succession Act (HSA) reforms on females’ empowerment and access to human and physical capital, the fact that this reform also led to increased female ... -
Social connections and tertiary healthcare utilization
(Health Economics, 2020)The use of tertiary health care by socially proximate peers helps individuals learn about program and treatment procedures, signals that using such care is socially appropriate, and could support the use of formal health ... -
Financial misconduct, fear of prosecution and bank lending
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2020)The issue and relevance of financial misconduct and fear of prosecution on the lending behaviour of Indian banks is investigated by combining bank-level financial and prudential variables during 2008–18 with a unique ... -
From courts to markets: new evidence on enforcement of pharmaceutical bans in India
(Social Science & Medicine, 2019)Regulatory enforcement of product safety standards given health concerns, whether it is in romaine lettuce, smartphones or cars, is emerging to be a challenge for global public health. This is particularly true for developing ... -
Regression models for group testing: identifiability and asymptotics
(Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2019)Group testing has been widely used in epidemiology and related fields to estimate prevalence of rare diseases. Parametric binary regression models are used in group testing to estimate the covariate adjusted prevalence. ... -
Why does technology integration fail?: teacher beliefs and content developer assumptions in an Indian initiative
(Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020)This paper explores technology integration and the role of teacher beliefs in this integration to assess a ‘smart-class’ initiative that was introduced in 3173 Grade 7–8 classrooms of 1609 public schools in India in 2017. ... -
Addressing the undergraduate internship challenge in developing countries: a “learning-by-doing” project-based online internship model
(Education + Training, 2019)The difficulties higher education institutions in developing countries face in finding adequate and relevant onsite student internship opportunities make a case for online internships. The purpose of this paper is to present ... -
It runs in the family: the role of family and extended social networks in developing early science interest
(Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2020)Research shows that early scientific interest is associated with science degree completion and career selection. However, little is known about the conditions that support early scientific interest. Using a “funds of ... -
PhD Student experiences with the impostor phenomenon in STEM
(International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 2020)This US-based study explored various facets of impostor phenomenon experienced during PhD training in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Specifically, the purpose of this research was to identify ... -
Impostor phenomenon in STEM: occurrence, attribution, and identity
(Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2019)his study aims to explore different themes related to impostor phenomenon, as experienced by graduate students and postdocs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. -
The geography of medical travel in India: differences across states, and the urban-rural divide
(Applied Geography, 2019)There is a large body of literature exploring spatial disparity in access to healthcare services, and the resultant geographic inequality in the demand for medical travel. We are, however, unaware of any such study conducted ... -
Bother me only if the client complains: control and resistance in home-based telework in India
(Employee Relations: The International Journal, 2020)The purpose of this paper is to explore the link between operations of organization control and workers’ response to them in case of telework, a technology-embedded new way of working. -
Reverse endowment effect for a new product
(American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020)This article reports and provides an explanation for a discrepancy between two theoretically equivalent, frequently used, and incentive-compatible methods of measuring premia for improved novel products: the full-bidding ... -
Numeracy and financial literacy of forest-dependent communities
(Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 2019)The article examines the numeracy and financial literacy of the Indian forest-dependent communities (FDC) involved in the joint forest management (JFM) programme, launched by the Government of India in 1990. An understanding ... -
Design, modeling, and analysis of vertical robotic storage and retrieval systems
(Transportation Science, 2018)Autonomous vehicle-based storage and retrieval systems are commonly used in many fulfillment centers (e.g., e-commerce warehouses), because they allow a high- and flexible-throughput capacity. In these systems, roaming ... -
Robotized and automated warehouse systems: review and recent developments
(Transportation Science, 2017)Robotic handling systems are increasingly applied in distribution centers. They require little space, provide flexibility in managing varying demand requirements, and are able to work 24/7. This makes them particularly fit ...