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Journal Articles | 2021

Impact of gendered participation in market-linked value-chains on economic outcomes: Evidence from India

Vivek Pandey, Hari K. Nagarajan, and Deepak Kumar

Food Policy

We combine the results of a laboratory experiment and survey of agricultural households to estimate the welfare impacts of a market-based intervention with links to value-chain. We investigate whether increased participation by women in such value-chains improves their relative bargaining power and therefore their ability to contribute to household welfare. We utilize the National Dairy Plan-I as an example to estimate pathways through which such interventions may affect household decision-making. We find that the program design significantly increased women’s relative bargaining power within the household, which acts as an important channel for enhancing women’s ability to contribute to household welfare through decision-making processes related to food, nutrition, branded food items, and child education. The instrumental variable estimates show that if value-chains are gender-neutral then direct program effects are significant but small. Participation in National Dairy Plan-I, on the other hand, improved women’s relative bargaining power, allowing them to make substantial contribution to welfare. We show that when women’s bargaining power mediates participation in value-chains, the nutrition elasticity rises from 0.26 to 0.94. While the impact on analytical ability (i.e., mathematics Z-score) is negligible in the absence of female agency, performance improves by 0.35σ when gendered element(s) of the program are allowed to act as a channel.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Elite vs. mass politics of sustainability transitions

Nicolas Schmid, Christopher Beaton, Florian Kern, Neil McCulloch, Anish Sugathan, and Johannes Urpelainen

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

While the past decade of transitions scholarship has increasingly acknowledged the centrality of politics, key questions on transition politics deserve further research. Here, we develop a heuristic framework from the discipline of political science that separates transition politics into the classic categories of interests, ideas, institutions, as well as elite and mass politics. Based on this framework, we conduct a review of existing transitions literature on politics. We find that some areas of our framework are better covered than others. For instance, while the institutional foundations of elite politics are relatively well researched, there are only few studies on interests and ideas in mass politics. In geographical and sectoral terms, research is biased toward energy transitions in Europe and North America. Based on our review, we map areas for future research we believe to be indispensable to better understand varieties of transition politics.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Science education and labor market outcomes in a developing economy

Tarun Jain, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Nishith Prakash, and Raghav Rakesh

Economic Inquiry

We examine the association between studying science in higher secondary school and labor market earnings in India. Studying science in high school is associated with 22% greater earnings than studying business or humanities. Earnings for science students are further enhanced with some fluency in English. Science education is also associated with more years of education, completing a professional degree, returns to entrepreneurship and working in public sector positions. Primary survey of high school students shows no discernible differences in behavioral characteristics of science students compared to others.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Antecedents to firm performance during re-internationalization

Salman Ali, Ajeet N Mathur, and Anand Kumar Jaiswal

Australian Journal of Management

There is a paucity of research on re-internationalization, where firms re-enter international operations after complete withdrawal from previous international operations. The extant literature is largely silent on what drives firm performance during re-internationalization. We conducted an empirical investigation of re-internationalized enterprises from India to identify key antecedents to firm performance during the re-internationalization phase. Data analysis using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) indicates that initial internationalization experiences, presence of dynamic capabilities, and organizational commitment to internationalization positively contribute to re-internationalization performance. The findings have implications for firm strategies, organization systems, managerial attention to knowledge management, policies supporting subventions, and for future research into de-internationalization and re-internationalization.

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Journal Articles | 2021

Connecting smallholders’ marketplace decisions to agricultural market reform policy in India – An empirical exploration

Aashish Argade, Arnab Kumar Laha, and Anand Kumar Jaiswal

Journal of Macromarketing

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Journal Articles | 2021

Sovereign credit ratings, relative risk ratings and private capital flows: evidence from emerging and frontier markets

Supriyo De, Sanket Mohapatra, and Dilip Ratha

Studies in Economics and Finance

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Journal Articles | 2021

Guest editorial: Architecting management scholarship in the era of disruption

Vishal Gupta, Naresh Khatri, and Karthik Dhandapani

South Asian Journal of Business Studies

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Journal Articles | 2021

Relationship between negative teacher behaviors and student engagement: Evidence from India

Samvet Kuril, Vishal Gupta, and Vijaya Sherry Chand

International Journal of Educational Research

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Journal Articles | 2021

Web applications for teaching portfolio analysis and option pricing

Vineet Virmani and Jayanth R. Varma

Advances in Financial Education

Journal Articles | 2021

Time discount rate of forest-dependent communities: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Sundar Balakrishna and Vineet Virmani

Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers

This study presents evidence on time discount rate of forest-dependent communities (FDCs) in the backdrop of the joint forest management program launched by the Government of India in 1990. The study uses data from two regions of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh—Rayalaseema (a relatively dry forest region with low income) and the coastal region (relatively fertile forest and with higher income). We also identify socio-economic determinants of their patience levels and factors which distinguish the two regions. To elicit individual discount rates of FDCs members and their determinants, we use the choice task design methodology. Members from both regions were found to be highly impatient using the standard choice task design with the revealed time discount rate averaging 800% per annum. Members of FDCs from Rayalaseema were more impatient than their counterparts from the coastal region, although the statistical evidence is weak. We find no association between the income of members of FDCs and their time discount rate for both regions. Membership to caste categories showed a different response in both the regions, with members from the Scheduled Caste category and Other Backward Classes found to have a lower discount rate than those from the Scheduled Tribes category of Rayalaseema region and vice versa for the coastal region. For the coastal region, those with larger family size and heads of households were found to have a lower discount rate.

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