Browsing Working Papers by Author "Sarin, Ankur"

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    • Effect of Mobiles on Socio-economic Life of Urban Poor 

      Sarin, Ankur; Jain, Rekha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
      Using a survey of 1774 users and non-users in 84 slums in three metropolitan cities (Delhi, Ahmedabad and Kolkata), we try to understand the impact of mobiles on their social and economic lives. Urban slum dwellers spend ...

    • A framework for socially meaningful evaluations of technology based social innovations 

      Ranganathan, Kavitha; Sarin, Ankur (IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-11-07)
      The social innovation space that tries to marry the pursuit of profits and social impact is at interesting cross-roads in developing countries like India. Among other things, the euphoria and subsequent deflation around ...

    • Quotas under RTE: Leading towards an egalitarian education system? 

      Sarin, Ankur; Gupta, Swati (2013-11-26)
      Quotas for weaker sections in private schools have been one of the most controversial and contested instruments introduced as part of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. In this paper, ...

    • Social enterprises and the pursuit of mission: form matters 

      Sarin, Ankur; Sriram, M. S. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-07-03)
      Mission drift serves as an important parameter of success not only on its own right (Epstein and McFarlan 2011), but also because it shines light on the fundamental dilemma that social enterprises face between the pursuit ...