Webinar Series on Growth and Development in India

IEMS is hosting a series of webinars to explore issues about growth and development in India. The webinars encourage interaction among the speakers and attendees. Participants are expected to join with both audio and video whenever possible.

The series' academic committee consist of Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study), Pushkar Maitra (Monash University) and Sujata Visaria (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).

Series Schedule (as of 21 September 2020)

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
02 Jun	Ananish Chaudhuri	University of Auckland	Who Wants To Be A Politician? Running for Office in West Bengal Panchayats
16 Jun	Jun Goto	Kobe University	On the Origins and Persistence of Parochial Altruism: A Tenure Institution and Intergroup Conflicts in Colonial India
30 Jun	Manisha Shah	University of California Los Angeles	Aggregate Effects from Public Works: Evidence from India
14 Jul	Yogita Shamdasani	NUS	Labor Rationing: A Revealed Preference Approach from Hiring Shocks
21 Jul	Kenmei Tsubota	Toyo University	Regional Disintegration in South Asia: Evidence from the end of the British Empire on Maritime Networks
28 Jul	Prasad Bhattacharya	Deakin University	Trust Thy Neighbour?: Evidence from Partition in India
11 Aug	Tushar Bharati	University of Western Australia	Demonetisation and its Discontent: Political Strategy and Competition in Indian Elections
25 Aug	Sujata Visaria	HKUST	How are Votes Bought? An Empirical Examination of Transactional Politics in a Developing Economy
08 Sep	Reshad Ahsan	University of Melbourne	The Intergenerational Effects of Market Access: Evidence from Rural India
22 September 11:00am	Saravana Ravindran	Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore	Intergenerational Impacts of an Early Childhood Intervention: Evidence from the World's Largest Early Childhood Program
6 October 11:00am	Prashant Bharadwaj	UC San Diego	Long Term Impacts of Exposure to the Bhopal Gas Disaster
20 October 11:00am	Tarun Jain	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad	Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes
3 November 11:00am	Asha Sundaram	University of Auckland	Gender Bias and Male Backlash as Drivers of Crime Against Women: Evidence from India
17 November 11:00am	Atsushi Kato	Waseda University	Violent Conflicts and Economic Performance of the Manufacturing Sector in India
1 December 11:00am	Guo Xu	University of California, Berkeley	Bureaucratic Representation and State Responsiveness: The 1918 Pandemic in India

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