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Can Foreign Banks Contribute to Financial Inclusion? – eSocialScience Op-Ed by IEMS’ Sasidaran Gopalan
IEMS’ Sasidaran Gopalan was featured in an eSocialScience op-ed on the effect of foreign bank entry on financial inclusion in a given country, with a particular focus on India and other emerging market countries. As quoted by Dr. Gopalan’s Op-Ed: Recent research by the authors empirically examines how ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2015/gopalan-esocialscience-foreign-banks-contribute-financial-inclusion
How Do You Motivate Kids To Stop Skipping School? – NPR Article on Research by IEMS’ Sujata Visaria
National Public Radio (NPR) and Singdao Newspaper interviewed IEMS’ Sujata Visaria on her research into the effectiveness–or lackthereof–of incentive schemes on classroom attendance in elementary school children. As discussed in the NPR article: It seems like a no-brainer: Offer kids a reward for ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2015/how-do-you-motivate-kids-to-stop-skipping-school---npr-article-on-research-by-iems-sujata-visaria
Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India
Recent evaluations of traditional microloans have not found significant impacts on borrower production or incomes. We examine whether this can be remedied by delegating selection of borrowers for individual liability loans to local trader-lender agents incentivized by repayment-based commissions. In a field experiment ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/sujata-visaria-smallholder-agriculture-agent-intermediated-microloans-india
Unintended Negative Consequences of Rewards for Student Attendance: Results from a Field Experiment in Indian Classrooms
In an experiment in non-formal schools in Indian slums, an incentive for attending a target number of school days increased average attendance when the incentive was in place, but had heterogeneous effects after it was removed. Among students with high baseline attendance, the post-incentive attendance returned to ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/chao-unintended-negative-consequences-of-rewards-for-student-attendance-results-from-a-field-experiment-in-indian-classrooms
Is the PDS Already a Cash Transfer? Rethinking India’s Food Subsidy Policies
Critics argue that India’s mismanaged Public Distribution System (PDS), which sells subsidized cereals to poor families, should be replaced by cash transfers. Others fear cash may be misused. Using National Sample Survey data, this paper demonstrates that families treat additional PDS subsidies wholly as a ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/sujata-balasubramanian-pds-cash-transfer-india-food-subsidy-policies
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