We address the challenge of designing performance-based incentive schemes for schoolteachers. When teachers specialize in different subjects in the presence of social prejudice, performance based pay which depends on the average of student performance can cause teachers to coordinate their...

This paper investigates the impact of language on economic performance. I use the 1956 reorganization of Indian states on linguistic lines as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of speaking the majority language on educational and occupational outcomes. I find that districts that spoke...

This paper uses random assignment of students to investigate the impact of study groups and roommates on academic achievement. We find that informal social interaction with roommates has a significant positive impact on academic achievement while study group peers have no discernible impact, a...

We address the challenge of designing performance-based incentive schemes for schoolteachers. When teachers specialize in different subjects in a society with social prejudice, performance-based pay that depends on the average of student performance can cause teachers to coordinate their effort...

The competition law rules are of immense importance for optimal functioning of the economic variables as they not only vouchsafe against the monopolistic and exploitative tendencies of the bigger market players, they are also instrumental in providing the smaller and newer entrants in the...

One of the major measures embedded in the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture is the 'Special Safeguard Measures' (SSM). This has been provided as an exception to the general rule of abolition of quotas and freedom of trade for the members of this international institution to protect their domestic...

One of the fundamental features which distinguishes environmental harm with other harms (corporeal or incorporeal), is the transcending effect it has. This is to say that even the ramifications of the use of armed force (except for biological or chemical weapons though) are not as wide as in the...

Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements (DTAA) are entered into between countries ‘for avoidance of double taxation’ and to relieve the tax-payer of being doubly taxed in respect of the same income in the two countries. The DTAA distributes the taxation rights between the countries so as to...

Service Tax is levied in India in terms of Chapter V of the Finance Act, 1994. Prior to the enactment of Finance Act, 2012, service tax was levied on the service providers upon rendering of taxable services where the taxable services were specifically defined in Section 65 of the Act and most...