Seminar in Applied Microeconomics - Virtual Assembly and Discussion

SAMVAAD is a platform for faculty and researchers in India to present their work and get feedback from the applied micro community. The online seminars are coordinated by Sabyasachi Das and Aaditya Dar and conducted once a month in association with the Society for Economic Research in India (SERI). To receive an invite, please sign up for the mailing list.

Upcoming SAMVAADs

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Date	Speaker	Paper
Update as on June 18: The seminar schedule will be shared soon

Details

• Format: Speakers will have 45 mins to present their research, followed by 30 mins of questions and answers, in the spirit of having an open dialogue and discussion.
  • While the speaker is presenting, only clarifying questions may be asked in the chat window. Co-authors should feel free to answer questions in the chat and if a question is unanswered (or if there is no co-author), the moderator will interject the presenter to ask the question.
  • After the presentation is over, the floor will be open for the audience. Participants are requested to use the ‘raise hand’ feature on Zoom to queue up for comments.

• Registration and invites: Attendance is capped at 300 so please sign up only if you can attend regularly. The link to the webinar will be shared with registered participants 2 hours before the talk. To prevent ‘zoombombing’, please do not share the invitation link or post it online. (However, please feel free to share the link to the sign up page).

• Admits: Registered participants are automatically placed in a waiting room when they join the seminar. Moderators begin to admit participants only 5 mins before start of the seminar.

• Housekeeping: The webinar is not recorded and regrettably not open to the public either. We also request participants to not share findings of the paper without the explicit permission of the speaker. Finally, please keep your mic on mute and turn off your video when you join the Zoom meeting.

• Got questions? If you have any questions/clarifications, please email the organizers (Sabyasachi Das or Aaditya Dar).

Past SAMVAADs

Weekly edition

The weekly edition of SAMVAADs (conducted between May and July 2020) were held on Friday mornings from 10 AM to 11:15 AM IST.

Date	Speaker	Paper
May 1	Garima Agarwal (DSE)	Improving school attendance for adolescent girls - Evidence from a policy experiment in Delhi’s public schools
May 8	Tanika Chakraborty (IIM Calcutta)	Caste, Courts and Business (joint with Sarani Saha, Divya Shukla, Anirban Mukherjee)
May 15	Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (ISI Delhi)	Trust Thy Neighbour?: Evidence from Partition of India
May 22	Sugata Bag (DSE)	Causes of low labour force participation of married women in India: Conservative culture, spousal education gap and structural factors
May 29	Prachi Singh (Brookings)	Information campaign on water quality and marriage market: The case of arsenic exposure in rural Bangladesh (joint with Shyamal Chowdhury)
Jun 5	Vidhya Soundararajan (IIM Bangalore)	Import Competition, Contract Labor, and Informal Firms: Revisiting the Trade and Informality Debate (joint with Pavel Chakraborty and Rahul Singh)
Jun 12	Renuka Sane (NIPFP)	The Effect of Product-Specific Financial Education on Purchase Decision (joint with Olga Balakina, Vimal Balasubmraniam and Aditi Dimri)
Jun 19	PKV Kishan (IRMA)	Bicycle as a Vehicle of Change? Long Term Evidence from an Innovative Cycle Program in India (joint with Ambrish Dongre)
Jun 26	Dyotona Dasgupta	A theory of progressive lending (joint with Dilip Mookherjee)
Jul 3	Somdeep Chatterjee (IIM Lucknow)	Women empowerment and domestic violence: Evidence from a multi-dimensional policy in India (joint with Prashant Poddar)
Jul 10	Abhishek Dureja (IGIDR)	Smoothing Consumption in Times of Sickness: Households Recourse Mechanisms (joint with Digvijay Negi)
Jul 17	Prasenjit Sarkhel (University of Kalyani)	Does More Schooling Imply Improved Learning? Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in India (joint with Upasak Das)
Jul 24	Kaushal Kishore (IISER, Bhopal)	Dynamic Tax Competition, Home Bias and the gain from Non-preferential Taxation Regimes: A case for unilateral commitment

Monthly edition

Date	Time	Speaker	Paper
12 Sep 2020	5 PM IST	Anindya Chakrabarti (IIM Ahmedabad)	Science, Pathogenic Outbreak & Market Structure: Evidence from the 2010 NDM-1 Superbug Discovery & Indian Antibiotics Market (joint with Mayank Aggarwal and Chirantan Chatterjee)
17 Oct 2020	5 PM IST	Kanishka Kacker (ISI Delhi)	Identifying the Effect of Coal Plants on Air Pollution (joint E. Somanathan and Sagnik Dey and Rishabh Choudhary)
21 Nov 2020	5 PM IST	Surbhi Kesar (APU)	Economic Transition, Dualism, and Informality in India: Nature and Patterns of Household-level Transitions
21 Jan 2021	4 PM IST	Kanika Mahajan (Ashoka)	Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior (joint with Sugat Chaturvedi and Zahra Siddiqui)
18 Feb 2021	5 PM IST	Oindrila Dey (IIFT Kolkata)	Conditionality Matters: A Samaritan’s Dilemma with In-Kind Transfers Targeting Educational Attainment (joint with Somdeep Chatterjee)
11 Mar 2021	5 PM IST	Anirban Mukherjee (University of Calcutta)	Family culture and women’s wage: a study on Indian labor market (joint with Sukanya Sarkhel)
15 Apr 2021	6 PM IST	Aditi Bhowmick (Development Data Lab) and Sutanuka Roy (Australian National University)	Symposium on bias in Indian judiciary: Ash et. al. 2021 and Bharti and Roy 2021
13 May 2021	6 PM IST	Rahul Singh (Ahmedabad University)	Creditor Rights and Product Innovation: Evidence from India (joint with Tanya Jain and Chetan Subramanian)
17 Jun 2021	6 PM IST	Subrato Banerjee (IIT Bombay)	Fairness is flexible: A study of competing focal points (joint with Priyanka Kothari and Prabal Roy Chowdhury)

Note: There was no talk in December 2020.