In the recent past, India has seen a rise of strong state which made its presence felt through se series of difficult measures such as demonetization, abolition of Tin-Talaq practice and article 370 even though none of these are particularly welfare enhancing for the majority population of...

Gender discrimination in the labor market is usually seen as the result of the employers' cultural bias. In this paper, we see the issue from a larger perspective by combining both labor market and household decision making together. It is often observed that women, prioritizing their families...

We report on an investigation of the impact of voice numerosity in marketing videos, specifically product introduction videos and video advertisements, on consumer behavior. Despite the ubiquity of video advertising, the role of voice numerosity as a strategic design element to enhance...

Our article investigates the effect of macro socio-economic drivers on Australian households’ allocation of expenditure in a category (household appliances) and conditional on the allocated category expenditure, preferences for products (clothes washers) within the category. At the...

Sugata Marjit and Saibal Kar, The Outsiders: Economic Reform and Informal Labour in a Developing Economy, (Hardcover) ₹ 695, Oxford University Press.

Although most countries in the world are rapidly urbanizing, the majority of the global population – particularly the poor – continue to live in rural areas. This Handbook rejects the popular notion that urbanization should be universally encouraged and presents clear evidence of...

This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...