Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
January 2 |
Inequality, Labour Markets and Governments |
Session 1. Chair: Sam Bowles |
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| 9:00 - 10:00 | Thomas Piketty "Top Indian Incomes 1956-2000" (with Abhijit Banerjee) |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Suresh Tendulkar "Organised Labour Market in India: Pre and Post-Reform" |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Break |
Session 2. Chair: Sudipto Mundle |
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| 11:30 - 12:30 | Anjini Kochar "Government, Schooling and Poverty: The Trickle-down Benefits of Higher Schooling in India" |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Esther Duflo "Efficiency and Rent-Seeking in Local Governments" (with Raghab Chattopadhyay) |
Food Policy and InequalityChair: Pedro Medrano |
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| 3:00 - 4:00 | Bharat Ramaswami "Reforming Food Policies: The Costs and Impacts of Food Subsidies." |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Break |
| 4:30 - 5:30 | Shikha Jha "Efficient Redistribution through Deregulation of Domestic Grain Markets" (with P.V. Srinivasan) |
January 3 |
Education Reforms |
Chair: Raghabendra Chattopadhyay |
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| 9:00 - 10:00 | Abhijit Banerjee "Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India" (with Sharon Cole, Esther Duflo and Leigh Linden) |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | François Leclercq "Education Policy Reforms and the Quality of the School System: A Field Study of Primary Schools in Madhya Pradesh, India" |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Jyotsna Jalan "Improving Primary School Education in India: An Impact Assessment of DPEP Phase 1" (with Elena Glinskaya) |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch |
Child Labor, Gender and Health PolicyChair: A. Vaidyanathan |
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| 2:00 - 3:00 | Indrani Gupta "Inequities in Health and Health Care in India: Can the Poor Hope for a Respite?" |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Sanghamitra Das "Birth-Order, Gender and Wealth as Determinants of Child Labour: An Empirical Study of the Indian Experience" (with Kaushik Basu and Bhaskar Dutta) |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Break |
| 4:30 - 5:30 | Shubhashis Gangopadhyay "Are Female-Headed Households in India More Vulnerable to Poverty?" |
January 4 |
Panel Discussions |
| 9:00 - 10:45 | Panel Discussion on Anti-Poverty Policy in IndiaPanelists: Jean Dreze, Ravi Duggal, Anirudh Krishna, RamManohar Reddy (to speak for 15 min each) |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 - 1:00 | Panel Discussion on Labour Policy in IndiaPanelists: Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri, Ashok Desai, Ajeet Mathur, R.
Nagaraj |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Lunch Conferees depart |
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