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24-03: Persuasion in social media: smoke and mirrors

Prabal Roy Chowdhury

24-02: Who bears the distance cost of public primary healthcare? Hypertension among the elderly in rural India

Bertrand Lefebvre, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Vastaf and only if the other epistemic institutions are ineptimal strategy involves a mixture of confirmatory and (a minimal amount of) contrarian re- porting, with the contrarian elements being used to create a false perception that no news is good news, which in turn allows the platform to camouflage the fact that it is suppressing all but one unwelcome signals. Further, public good implementation is iner very inef the other epistemic institutions (EIs) of the soci- ety. In general, when the EIs are neither very eIn the presence of individuals who think ‘categorically’, we demonstrate that profit- maximizing social media platforms indulge in identity-based censoring, with the nature of bias depending on the e`v Ratra ptimal strategy involves a mixture of confirmatory and (a minimal amount of) contrarian re- porting, with the contrarian elements being used to create a false perception that no news is good news, which in turn allows the platform to camouflage the fact that it is suppressing all but one unwelcome signals. Further, public good implementation is iner very inef the other epistemic institutions (EIs) of the soci- ety. In general, when the EIs are neither very eIn the presence of individuals who think ‘categorically’, we demonstrate that profit- maximizing social media platforms indulge in identity-based censoring, with the nature of bias depending on the e` r very inef the other epistemic institutions (EIs) of the soci- ety. In general, when the EIs are neither very eIn the presence of individuals who think ‘categorically’, we demonstrate that profit- maximizing social media platforms indulge in identity-based censoring, with the nature of bias depending on the e` f the other epistemic institutions (EIs) of the soci- ety. In general, when the EIs are neither very eIn the presence of individuals who think ‘categorically’, we demonstrate that profit- maximizing social media platforms indulge in identity-based censoring, with the nature of bias depending on the e`

24-01: Learning from diversity: ``jati" fractionalization, social expectations and improved sanitation practices in India

Sania Ashraf, Cristina Bicchieri, Upasak Das, Tanu Gupta and Alex Shpenev

23-01: Credit Markets with time-inconsistent agents and strategic loan default

Joydeep Bhattacharya, Monisankar Bishnu and Min Wang

22-04: Electric stoves as a solution for household air pollution: Evidence from rural India

E. Somanathan, Marc Jeuland, Eshita Gupta, Utkarsh Kumar, T. V. Ninan, Rachit Kamdar, Vidisha Chowdhury, Suvir Chandna, Michael H. Bergin, Karoline Barkjohn, Christina Norris, T. Robert Fetter and Subhrendu Pattanayak

22-03: Symmetric reduced form voting

Debasis Mishra and Xu Lang

22-02: Selling to a principal and a budget-constrained agent

Debasis Mishra and Kolagani Paramahamsa

22-01: Forced displacement and social capital: long-run impact of the Indian partition

Prasad Bhattacharya and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

21-04: There is no economic case for new coal plants in India

Shoibal Chakravarty and E. Somanathan

21-03: Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior

Sugat Chaturvedi, Kanika Mahajan and Zahra Siddique

21-02: The importance of being earnest: What explains the gender quota effect in politics?

Sugat Chaturvedi, Sabyasachi Das and Kanika Mahajan

21-01: Selling two complementary goods

Komal Malik and Kolagani Paramahamsa

20-09: Simultaneous Borrowing and Saving in Microfinance

Dyotona Dasgupta and Prabal Roy Chowdhury

20-08: Public Debt in India: A Security Level Analysis

Piyali Das and Chetan Ghate

20-07: Selling Two Identical Objects

Sushil Bikhchandani and Debasis Mishra

20-06: Ordinal Bayesian incentive compatibility in random assignment model

Sulagna Dasgupta and Debasis Mishra

20-05: Race to collusion: Monitoring and incentive contracts for loan officers under multiple-bank lending

Kanishka Dam and Prabal Roy Chowdhury

20-04: Prize sharing rules in collective contests: When does group size matter?

Dhritiman Gupta

20-03: Redistributive Policy Shocks and Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents

Ojasvita Bahl, Chetan Ghate and Debdulal Mallick

20-02: Institutional Imperfections and Buyer-Induced Holdout in Land Acquisition

Sreeparna Saha, Prabal Roy Chowdhury, Jaideep Roy and Grazyna Wiejak-Roy

20-01: Prize Sharing Rules in Collective Contests: Towards Strategic Foundations

Dhritiman Gupta

18-08: Optimal Intergenerational Transfers: Public Education and Pensions

Monisankar Bishnu, Shresth Garg, Tishara Garg and Tridip Ray

18-07: Fiscal Austerity in Emerging Market Economies

Chetan Ghate and Debojyoti Mazumder

18-06: Pareto efficient combinatorial auctions: dichotomous preferences without quasilinearity

Komal Malik and Debasis Mishra

18-05: Fiscal Austerity in Emerging Market Economies

Chetan Dave, Chetan Ghate, Pawan Gopalakrishnan and Suchismita Tarafdar

18-04: Public-private Partnerships, Commitment and X-Inefficiency

Indrani Roy Chowdhury and Prabal Roy Chowdhury

18-03: Selling to a naive agent with two rationales

Debasis Mishra and Kolagani Paramahamsa

18-02: A Monetary Business Cycle Model for India

Shesadri Banerjee, Parantap Basu, Chetan Ghate, Pawan Gopalakrishnan and Sargam Gupta

18-01: Inter-Regional Coal Mine Competition in the US: Evidence from Rail Restrictions

Kanishka Kacker and Ian Lange

17-06: The Impact of Credit Shocks: Micro versus Small Firms

Megha Patnaik

17-05: Whose Education Matters? An Analysis Of Inter Caste Marriages In India

Tridip Ray, Arka Roy Chaudhari and Komal Sahai

17-04: Mechanism design without quasilinearity

Tomoya Kazumura, Debasis Mishra and Shigehiro Serizawa

17-03: Strategy-proof multi-object auction design: Ex-post revenue maximization with no wastage

Tomoya Kazumura, Debasis Mishra and Shigehiro Serizawa

17-02: Natural Shock and Marriage Markets: Evolution of Mehr and Dowry in Muslim Marriages

Shyamal Chowdhury, Debdulal Mallick and Prabal Roy Chowdhury

17-01: The distributional impact of climate change:Why food prices matter

Eshita Gupta, Bharat Ramaswami and E. Somanathan

16-08: Redistributing Teachers using Local Transfers

Siddhant Agarwal, Athisii Kayina, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Anugula Reddy

16-07: Political Economy of Land Acquisition and Holdout

Sreeparna Saha, Prabal Roy Chowdhury, Jaideep Roy and Prasad Bhattarcharya

16-06: Optimal Inheritance Tax under Temptation

Monisankar Bishnu, Cagri Kumru and Arm Nakornthab

16-05: Terms of trade shocks and monetary policy in India

Chetan Ghate, Sargam Gupta and Debdulal Mallick

16-04: Balanced ranking mechanisms

Debasis Mishra and Tridib Sharma

16-03: Gradualism in Aid and Reforms

Parimal Kanti Bag and Prabal Roy Chowdhury

16-02: Ordinal Bayesian incentive compatibility in restricted domains

Debasis Mishra

16-01: Local incentive compatibility with transfers

Debasis Mishra, Anup Pramanik and Souvik Roy

15-07: International trade and risk sharing in the global rice market: The Impact of foreign and domestic supply shocks

Shikha Jha, Kensuke Kubo and Bharat Ramaswami

15-06: Affirmative action in the presence of a creamy layer

Brishti Guha and Prabal Roy Chowdhury

15-05: Conflict and development

Dushyant Kumar and Prabal Roy Chowdhury

15-04: Power analysis and sample sizes: A Binding frontier approach

Subrato Banerjee

15-03: The Impact of temperature on productivity and labor supply: Evidence from Indian manufacturing

E. Somanathan, Rohini Somanathan, Anant Sudarshan and Meenu Tewari

15-02: Caste, female labor supply and the gender wage gap in India: Boserup revisited

Kanika Mahajan and Bharat Ramaswami

15-01: Gradualism in aid and reforms

Parimal Kanti Bag and Prabal Roy Chowdhury