Ideas for India (I4I)

🚨 Two days to go! 🚨 Join us on Wednesday for the 3rd Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture, where Rohini Pande will discuss how lower-income countries can access international climate funds through nature-based activities This is a hybrid event - register here to attend in-person (Delhi) or virtually: https://lnkd.in/dg33siA8

On #AntiCorruptionDay, read Wendy N. Wong's work on how audit design can effectively deter corruption by bureaucrats. She finds that providing information about audits in advance would have led to US$ 35 million/16% of average annual expenditure less in misappropriated expenditures Read here: https://lnkd.in/grWCDpBu

Read Pulapre Balakrishnan's take on Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson's #NobelPrize win, and the implications of the case of India on the AJR thesis: bit.ly/3OGbyHk

Ahead of the Nobel Prize ceremony next week, read Pulapre Balakrishnan's evaluation of Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson's econometric approach and representation of colonialism – as linked to institutions – in some of their prominent works

Read Patrick Francois' take on Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson's #NobelPrize win: bit.ly/49pEo8r

📅 One week to go! International Growth Centre Yale Economic Growth Center Inclusion Economics India Centre Rohini Pande's research on economic, political, and environmental advantage in low-income countries has influenced policy in South Asia & globally Register here to join in-person (Delhi) or virtually: https://lnkd.in/dg33siA8

Ahead of the Economics Nobel Prize lecture, read Patrick Francois’ thoughts on the contribution of Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson in opening up a whole new set of facts from history, to change the way we think about one of economics ‘big questions’ https://lnkd.in/dq75ipzS

While increasing wages does attract higher quality talent, this study finds that simply making job information ‘non-rival’ can have an even larger impact on the quality of hires – the equivalent of a 3-6x increase in wages These findings highlight the value of sharing job information beyond social networks – through job portals, information campaigns and advertising. Firms could also incentivise referrals to ensure information is relayed through social networks, reducing the likelihood of competitive resistance Read here: https://lnkd.in/d5gtMVNE

Social networks can help information on job postings reach jobseekers - but competition for jobs may disincentivise information-sharing. An experiment among college students in Mumbai by Gaurav Chiplunkar, Erin Kelley & Gregory Lane finds that these disincentives lower the overall quality of applicants and hires Read here:

📢 November Policy Roundup is here! Presenting a curation of I4I & International Growth Centre content on Delhi's seasonal smog problem, anti-pollution & adaptation measures, high-skilled migration from India ➡️ US, and efforts by Indian states to promote industrial development Read here: