Research & Publications Office to host seminar on ‘Political Institutions, Public Goods, and Migration’ on 14 August
The talk will be delivered by Prof. Veda Narasimhan, NYU Abu Dhabi
6 August, 2024, Bengaluru: The Office of Research and Publications (R&P) at IIM Bangalore will host a research seminar on, ‘Political Institutions, Public Goods, and Migration’, to be led by Prof. Veda Narasimhan, NYU Abu Dhabi (Economics area), at 4 pm on 14 August 2024, at Classroom K-21.
Abstract: Throughout the nineties, many low- to middle income countries were engaged in political and administrative decentralization, but there is little evidence on the effectiveness of those policies. The research looks at an exogenous shock to decentralization in local political institutions in India in 1992, and the effect that these had in the short-term on public good provision, and in the long-term on economic activity and migration behavior. It is found that villages with direct access to a decentralized village institution have differential economic activity, a greater provision of infrastructure-related public goods, and higher population growth over the long-term. This analysis is complemented by the introduction of a novel aggregate RDD methodology to study district-level migrations flows. It is found that this population growth could have been driven predominantly by rural-rural migration, and could be partially mitigated by higher levels of rural-urban migration.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Veda Narasimhan is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Social Science Division at NYU Abu Dhabi. Before that, she pursued a PhD in Economics at the University of Zurich. She is an applied micro-economist, working at the intersection between political economy and development economics. Her research looks at how political institutions impact local development and the extent to which rural development programs impact both aggregate growth and urbanization. Her current research projects focus on India, with topics related to migration, trade, urbanization and local economic development.
Dr. Narasimhan holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before this, she received a BA in Economics with a Minor in Political Science from McGill University.
Webpage Link: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/divisions/social-science/faculty/veda-binod-narasimhan.html
Research & Publications Office to host seminar on ‘Political Institutions, Public Goods, and Migration’ on 14 August
The talk will be delivered by Prof. Veda Narasimhan, NYU Abu Dhabi
6 August, 2024, Bengaluru: The Office of Research and Publications (R&P) at IIM Bangalore will host a research seminar on, ‘Political Institutions, Public Goods, and Migration’, to be led by Prof. Veda Narasimhan, NYU Abu Dhabi (Economics area), at 4 pm on 14 August 2024, at Classroom K-21.
Abstract: Throughout the nineties, many low- to middle income countries were engaged in political and administrative decentralization, but there is little evidence on the effectiveness of those policies. The research looks at an exogenous shock to decentralization in local political institutions in India in 1992, and the effect that these had in the short-term on public good provision, and in the long-term on economic activity and migration behavior. It is found that villages with direct access to a decentralized village institution have differential economic activity, a greater provision of infrastructure-related public goods, and higher population growth over the long-term. This analysis is complemented by the introduction of a novel aggregate RDD methodology to study district-level migrations flows. It is found that this population growth could have been driven predominantly by rural-rural migration, and could be partially mitigated by higher levels of rural-urban migration.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Veda Narasimhan is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Social Science Division at NYU Abu Dhabi. Before that, she pursued a PhD in Economics at the University of Zurich. She is an applied micro-economist, working at the intersection between political economy and development economics. Her research looks at how political institutions impact local development and the extent to which rural development programs impact both aggregate growth and urbanization. Her current research projects focus on India, with topics related to migration, trade, urbanization and local economic development.
Dr. Narasimhan holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before this, she received a BA in Economics with a Minor in Political Science from McGill University.
Webpage Link: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/divisions/social-science/faculty/veda-binod-narasimhan.html