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Fuzzy Revealed Preference Theory
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Gender and Say: A Model of Household Behavior with Endogenously-determined Balance of Power
(2006-10-11)The evidence that the same total income can lead a household to choose different consumption vectors, depending on who brings in how much of the income, has led to an effort to replace the standard unitary model of the ... -
Gender and Say: A Model of Household Behaviour with Endogenously Determined Balance of Power
(2006-08-30)The evidence that the same income can lead to different household decisions, depending on who the earner is, has led to an effort to replace the standard household model with the ‘collective model’, which recognizes that ... -
The global child labor problem
(2006-11-21)The problem of child labor has moved from a matter of regional and national concern to one of international debate and possible global persuasion and policy intervention. In crafting policy for mitigating this enormous ... -
Global Labour Standards and Local Freedoms
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Globalisation and Babool Gum
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Heterogeneous Choice Sets and Preferences in Matlab
(2021-10)We present the heterogeneous choice sets and preferences MATLAB package implementing the method to construct confidence sets on preference parameters in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity in choice sets proposed by ... -
Industrial Organization Theory and Development Economics
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International credit and welfare: A paradoxical theorem and its policy implications
(2006-08-30)This paper considers a developing nation that faces a foreign exchange shortage and hence its demand for foreign goods is limited both by its income and its foreign exchange balance. Availability of international credit ... -
Isolated and proximate illiteracy
(2006-11-21)Traditionally, a society’s literacy has been measured by the ‘literacy rate’ or the per cent of the adult population that is literate. The present paper maintains that the. distribution of . literates across households ... -
Methodological Individualism
(2006-11-21)Methodological individualism - a belief that in explaining social phenomena we should begin from the individual as a unit of analysis - was a matter of debate and controversy a long time ago. Contemporary economists ... -
Paradoxes of Game Theory
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Participatory Equity and Economic Development
(2006-11-21)The role of a person’s identity and sense of integration into society as instruments of economic development has been vastly underestimated in the literature in economics. We talk of policies to subsidize the poor and give ... -
Punctuality: A cultural trait as equilibrium
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Racial Conflict and the Malignancy of Identity
(2006-10-11)This paper demonstrates how our sense of identity can emerge out of mere markers of social distinction that may have no innate significance, but, nevertheless, spread to various aspects of our lives and be the root of ... -
The role of norms and law in economics: An essay on political economy
(2006-11-21)The THREE - HOUR stretch of road between Hazaribagh and Dhanbad in eastern India is as desolate as it is beautiful. One winter evening, some half a dozen years ago, as I was traveling ibis route by taxi to catch a train ... -
Rural Credit and Interlinkage
(2006-11-21)This paper is concerned with the modem theory of agrarian economic relations. Unlike most other areas, this subject developed from related findings generated by anthropologists and empirical economists, and from ... -
Social norms and the law
(2006-11-21)After one eats in a restaurant, that one has to leave a tip is a social norm, and that one has to pay for the food is law. As is evident from this, both norms and the law influence our behaviour. What we say, for instance, ... -
Stackelberg equilibrium in oligopoly
(2006-11-21)This paper shows that in a model of managerial delegation in □ duopoly, if an owner’s decision to hire a manager is modeled explicitly, then the subgame perfect equilibrium may coincide with the Stackelberg solution. I ...
