#EconSky Call for Papers: Organizing this conference at IIM Calcutta in Spring 2026. Submit your best work - we promise to provide you with enough time for presentations and feedback and plenty of networking opportunities. Also, a good time to visit the city of Kolkata. ECRs particularly encouraged.

Delighted that this paper is now accepted for publication at the #EuropeanJournalofPoliticalEconomy. Jt work w/ #ShivHastawala & #ElisaTaveras. We show that continued female reservation leads to lower corruption - suggesting that women political reservations show impacts with a lag.

The 2nd Amitava Bose Memorial Annual Workshop held at the IIM Calcutta campus on 11-12 July was a huge success. Brilliant talks by Dilip Mookherjee, Rohini Somanathan, Debraj Ray and Maitreesh Ghatak. Amazing presentations in the parallel sessions and some great networking in the hallways!!

#EconSky Delighted to announce the 2nd Amitava Bose Memorial Annual Workshop to be held at #IIM_Calcutta on 11-12 July 2025 in memory of Late Prof Amitava Bose. Stellar lineup of speakers for our special sessions but also a fantastic set of papers in parallel sessions.

Organizing this workshop in July. Consider submitting your work - great set of speakers - lovely campus in a vibrant city. Early monsoon is a great time to visit Kolkata and the beautiful and pristine IIM Calcutta campus!! Deadline: 25 May. Full papers only - all fields welcome.

3 - how parties select candidates is not obvious. While winnability is often a factor - We show that winning by garnering support of elite voters may act as a symbol of excess popularity of the candidate and such candidates are less likely to be given an opportunity to re-contest despite winning.

2 - urbanization usually comes at a cost of higher pollution. We show that sustainable urbanization models through place based policies can increase economic development while reduce pollution- potentially through economies of scale in pollution abatement costs due to clustered approach.

Looking fwd to an eventful summer of research. Focussed on readying drafts of 3 new papers which I am very excited about. 1- studying the perverse consequences of doorstep delivery of contraceptives. Such interventions relax access constraints but accentuates within household ideological conficts.

#EconSky New paper alert!! We revisit the motherhood penalty in the Indian labor market and show that mandated increase in paid maternity leaves affects contractual arrangements of employed mothers in the labor market. Now accepted at the #JournalOfDevelopmentStudies . Jt work with #SaheliBose.

#EconSky #HotOffThePress We experimentally estimate the labor mkt penalty for single mothers. While aggregate data shows that single moms have quite high LFPR - this masks the demand side discrimination which we uncover in our new #WP. Joint with #ShubhamOjha #RalitzaDimova

#EconSky organizing this doctoral conference in March. Submit your best work. Deadline in 15 days. Format: few papers, more discussion, plenty of networking.

#EconSky Calling potential PhD applicants to join us for a rigorous PhD program. You will get guidance from some of the finest economists in India and work with a very enthusiastic faculty and peer group with cutting-edge research output. Financial Support available

www.iimcal.ac.in/doctoral-pro...