Browsing Journal Articles by Author "Dev, Pritha"
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Breaking “bad” links: impact of Companies Act 2013 on the Indian corporate network
Aggarwal, M.; Chakrabarti, Anindya; Dev, Pritha (Social Networks, 2020)Board interlock networks are known to exhibit concentration of influence by a small group of elites. In this paper, we study a policy intervention aiming to curb this influence. We analyze the evolution of Indian board ... -
Domestic workers and sexual harassment in India: examining preferred response strategies
Vijayalakshmi, Akshaya; Dev, Pritha; Kulkarni, Vaibhavi (Elsevier, 2022-03-30)The purpose of this research is to understand how women working as domestic workers, who are part of the informal sector, are likely to respond to sexual harassment incidents. Unlike the organized sector, women in informal ... -
Ethnic inequality: theory and evidence from formal education in Nigeria
Dev, Pritha; Mberu, B. U.; Pongou, R. (University of Chicago Press, 2016)Inequality across social groups with distinct identities and cultures is one of the most important issues facing modern societies. Disparities in economic opportunities, employment, earnings, and asset holding are generally ... -
Group identity in a network formation game with cost sharing
Dev, Pritha (Wiley, 2018-01)This paper introduces the choice of group identity, which is comprisedof characteristics and commitments to these characteristics,in a network formation model where links costs are shared. Playerswant to link to the largest ... -
How COVID-19 lockdown has impacted the sanitary pads distribution among adolescent girls and women in India
Babbar, Karan; Rustagi, Niharika; Dev, Pritha (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), 2022-07-26)This paper empirically explores the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying lockdown on adolescent girls’ and women's access to sanitary pads in India. We have used the National Health Mission's Health Management ... -
More is not always better: the case of counter terrorism security
Dev, Pritha; Grabiszewski, Konrad (Sage, 2019-01-11)Can counterterrorism security be counterproductive? We argue that it can be when the at-risk population acts strategically. We model a two-stage game where the government first chooses the defensive security level for a ... -
Networks of information exchange: Are link formation decisions strategic?
Dev, Pritha (Elseveir, 2018)This paper presents an empirical investigation into whether the decision to form a link with a node takes into account how well connected that node is. Given data in the form of a random sample from a network, this paper ...