CDE WINTER SCHOOL 2009
December 11 - 14, 2009
Venue: Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
   
December 11
  
9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. :
Welcome address
9.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. :
Session 1
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Zahara Siddique "Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy"
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Catherine Bros "Social Fragmentation and Public goods: Revisiting the Olson's Effect in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar"
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Rohini Somanathan "Caste Hierarchies and Social Mobility in India"
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11:00 p.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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Tea Break
11.30 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.
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Session 2
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Aditya Goenka "Existence of Competitive Equilibrium in an Optimal Growth Model with Elastic Labor Supply and Smooth Function"
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Diganta Mukherjee "Wooing the Voters: Stochastic Dynamic Models for Political Regime Change and Economic Performance in a Democracy"
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Sudhir Shah "Comparative Riskiness of Random Vector Outcomes"
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1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Lunch Break
2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.
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Session 3
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Sudhanshu Kumar "A Time-Varying Parameter Model of Inflation in India"
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Smruti Ranjan Behera "FDI and Technology Spillover: An Evaluation across Different Clusters in India"
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Pami Dua "Modelling and Forecasting the Indian Exchange Rate"
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3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Tea Break
4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.
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Session 4
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Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan "Measurement of Group Differential: A Formal Treatment for Two Group Case"
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Himanshu "Towards New Poverty Lines for India"
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J.V. Meenakshi "Determinants of Nutritional Status of Children in Rural India"
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December 12
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9:30ap.m. - 11:00 a.m.
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Session 1
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Charles Manski "Identification for Prediction and Decision - Part I"
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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Tea Break
11.30 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.
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Session 2
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Charles Manski " Identification for Prediction and Decision - Part II"
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Lunch Break
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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Session 3
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William Thomson "Adjudication of Conficting Claims - Part I"
3.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
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Tea Break
4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.
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Session 4
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Arunava Sen "Roberts' Theorem with Neutrality: A Social Welfare Ordering Approach"
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Ratul Lahkar "Reinforcement Learning in Large Population Models: A Continuity Equation Approach"
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Neil D'Souza "The Games Oil'igopolists Play"
     
December 13
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No Sessions
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December 14 
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9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
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Session 1
  :
William Thomson "Adjudication of Conficting Claims - Part II"
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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Tea Break
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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Session 2
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William Thomson "Adjudication of Conficting Claims - Part III"
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Lunch Break
2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.
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Session 3
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Charles Manski" Identification for Prediction and Decision - Part III"
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
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Tea Break
3:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
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Session 4
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Nishith Prakash "The Returns to English Language Skills in India "
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Prachi Mishra "A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis"
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Ashwini Deshpande "Do Reservation Policies Affect Productivity in Indian Railways?"
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Sahana Roy Chowdhury "Wealth Inequality and Occupational Choice"
   
AFFILIATION OF INVITED SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS:
Invited speakers:
Charles Manski (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA)
William Thomson (University of Rochester, NY, USA)
   
Conference participants:
Smruti Ranjan Behera (Delhi School of Economics)
Catherine Bros (Université Paris 1 Sorbonne - CES & Centre de Sciences Humanies, New Delhi)
Sahana Roy Chowdhury (ICRA Ltd., Kolkata & Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
Ashwini Deshpande (Delhi School of Economics)
Neil D'Souza (National University of Singapore)
Pami Dua (Delhi School of Economics)
Aditya Goenka (National University of Singapore)
Himanshu (Centre de Sciences Humanies, New Delhi)
Sudhanshu Kumar (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai)
Ratul Lahkar (Institute for Financial Management & Research, Chennai)
J. V. Meenakshi (Delhi School of Economics)
Prachi Mishra (International Monetary Fund)
Diganta Mukherjee (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai)
Nishith Prakash (Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA)
Arunava Sen (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi)
Sudhir Shah (Delhi School of Economics)
Zahara Siddique (IZA, Bonn, Germany)
Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics)

 
Organizing committee: Mausumi Das, Parikshit Ghosh, Sunil Kanwar & Sudhir Shah  
Organized by:
Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics