Pushkar Maitra

Monash University - Department of Economics

Wellington Road

Clayton, Victoria 3

Australia

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Scholarly Papers (18)

1.

Labour Supply Responses to Rainfall Shocks

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 15 Sep 2019
Pushkar Maitra and Anirudh Tagat
Monash University - Department of Economics and Department of Economics, Monk Prayogshala
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Rainfall Shocks, Labour Supply, Insurance, Education, India

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Social Identity and Governance: The Behavioral Response to Female Leaders

Indian School of Business Research Paper Series
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2016
Lata Gangadharan, Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Joe Vecci
Monash University, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Monash University - Department of Economics and Gothenburg University
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Gender, Governance, Leaders, Affirmative action, Artefactual field experiment, India

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The Fairer Sex? Women Leaders and the Strategic Response to the Social Environment

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2018
Lata Gangadharan, Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Joe Vecci
Monash University, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Monash University - Department of Economics and Gothenburg University
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Gender, Leaders, Governance, Deception, Affirmative action, Lab-in-the-field experiment, India

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The Long Shadow of Infrastructure Development: Long Run Effects of Railway Construction in Colonial India

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 17 Jan 2022
Pushkar Maitra and William Yu
Monash University - Department of Economics and Monash University
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Infrastructure, Railways, Long Run Prosperity, Colonial India

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Lab-in-the-Field Experiments: Perspectives from Research on Gender

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 May 2021
Lata Gangadharan, Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Joe Vecci
Monash University, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Monash University - Department of Economics and Gothenburg University
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Lab-in-the-field experiments, Gender, RCTs, Leadership

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The Equity Impacts of Targeted Smallholder Agricultural Credit

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2017-41
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 03 Mar 2017
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Boston University - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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agricultural finance, agent based lending, group lending, distributive impacts

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Absence of Altruism? Female Disadvantage in Private School Enrolment in India

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 01 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2015
Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal and Anurag Sharma
Monash University - Department of Economics, University of Surrey and Monash University - Centre for Health Economics
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Private school enrolment, Gender gap, Household fixed effects model; Fixed effects estimates with selection correction; India

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Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India

CESifo Working Paper No. 8217
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Apr 2020
University of Auckland Business School, The University of Manchester, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Monash University - Department of Economics
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politicians, gender, honesty, die-tossing game, experiments

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Impact of Pollution from Coal on the Anemic Status of Children and Women: Evidence from India

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13522
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 29 Jul 2020
Monash University - Department of Economics, Monash University - Department of Economics, Brandeis University - International Business School, Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi
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anemia, coal units, PM2.5, air pollution, children, women, India

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Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-23
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 May 2015
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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agricultural finance, agent based lending, group lending, selection, repayment

Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private versus Political Intermediaries

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2020-70
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 05 Feb 2020
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Boston University - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Targeting, Intermediation, Decentralization, Community Driven Development, Agricultural Credit, Networks

Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private Versus Political Intermediaries

NBER Working Paper No. w26730
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 11 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2023
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private versus Political Intermediaries

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14382
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Feb 2020
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Agricultural Credit, Community Driven Development, Decentralization, intermediation, networks, targeting

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A Distributional Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 26 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2018
Salma Ahmed and Pushkar Maitra
Alfred Deakin Institute and Monash University - Department of Economics
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Bangladesh, discrimination effect, gender, wage gap, unconditional quantile regression

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Selecting the Best of Us? Politician Quality in Village Councils in West Bengal, India

CESifo Working Paper No. 8597
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 09 Oct 2020
University of Auckland Business School, The University of Manchester, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Monash University - Department of Economics
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selection into politics, politician quality, corruption, experiments, behavioural games

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Discrimination in Developing Countries

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Feb 2024
Pushkar Maitra and Ananta Neelim
Monash University - Department of Economics and University of Tasmania - Tasmanian School of Business & Economics
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Discrimination, Inter-group Contact, Gender, Minority-Majority, Experiments, Developing Countries

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Behavioral Development Economics

S. Chuah, R. Hoffmann & A. Neelim (Eds.) Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 05 Jun 2024
Utteeyo Dasgupta and Pushkar Maitra
Fordham University and Monash University - Department of Economics
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Experimental Development Economics; Behavioral Development Economics

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The Relevant Third: Threat of Coalition and Economic Development 

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 27 Aug 2024
Somdeep Chatterjee, Pushkar Maitra and Manhar Manchanda
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Monash University - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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JEL Classification Codes: D72, D73, O12 Political Competition, Relevant Third, Collusion, Development, Vote Shares

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Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition Based Evidence from an Indian State

NBER Working Paper No. w32157
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 20 Feb 2024
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment With Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11549
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Oct 2016
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Agent-based Lending, Agricultural Finance, Group Lending, Repayment, selection