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Lata Gangadharan is a Professor of Economics at Monash University in Australia. She is an experimental economist whose research interests are in understanding and designing appropriate institutions for the environment and for development. In recent years she has conducted experiments to understand: varying propensity for corruption, appropriate institutions for credit provision in developing countries, trust and trustworthiness between individuals in economic transactions, charitable giving and selection into labour market programmes in developing countries. Her work has been funded by the Australian Research Council and by grants from AusAID. Some of her recent work has been published in the American Economic Review, Science, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and American Journal of Agricultural Economics. More information about her research is available at the following website: http://www.monash.edu.au/research/people/profiles/profile.html?sid=34317&pid=5335
Posts by Lata Gangadharan
वस्तु-रूपी हस्तांतरण : डेडवेट हानि या लाभ?
क्या सामाजिक सहायता के लिए वस्तु-रूप में दिया जाने वाला हस्तांतरण उपभोक्ता की पसंद को सीमित करके ‘डेडवेट लॉस’ की ओर ले जाता है? इस लेख में महाराष्ट्र में हुए एक प्रयोग से प्राप्त निष्कर्षों को प्रस्तु...
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Klaus Abbink
Gaurav Datt
Lata Gangadharan
Digvijay S. Negi
Bharat Ramaswami
05 नवंबर, 2024
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In-kind transfers: Deadweight losses or gains?
Do in-kind transfers for social assistance lead to ‘deadweight losses’ by restricting consumer choice? This article presents findings from an experiment in Maharashtra, which involved offering low...
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Klaus Abbink
Gaurav Datt
Lata Gangadharan
Digvijay S. Negi
Bharat Ramaswami
16 October, 2024
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Impact of Elite Capture on the Provision of Public Services
The Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project commonly called JEEViKA, is a community-driven poverty reduction programme with the key aim of improving the social and economic empowerment of the rural poor.
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Lata Gangadharan
Tarun Jain
Pushkar Maitra
Joseph Vecci
31 March, 2018
- IGC Research on India
Citizens' trust in local politicians and implications for good governance
The new state of Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh in June 2014, after a prolonged movement by the people of Telangana region for a separate state. Based on field experiments among citizens ...
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Lata Gangadharan
Tarun Jain
Pushkar Maitra
Joseph Vecci
10 June, 2015
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Women leaders and deceptive behaviour
Are women in leadership positions more dishonest than men? Based on an artefactual field experiment in rural Bihar, this column finds that women in leadership positions deceive more than men, especia...
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Lata Gangadharan
Tarun Jain
Pushkar Maitra
Joseph Vecci
29 January, 2015
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Impact of Elite Capture on the Provision of Public Services
This project studies the effectiveness of major Government programmes in JEEViKA (Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project) villages versus others to see whether the presence of self-help groups leads to impro...
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Lata Gangadharan
Tarun Jain
Pushkar Maitra
Joseph Vecci
01 December, 2014
- IGC Research on India
Choosing to be trained: Behavioural restrictions on participation decisions
Widespread unemployment has prompted policymakers to consider introduction of various training programmes that can help workers accumulate additional skills to obtain new jobs and/ or retain current ...
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Utteeyo Dasgupta
Lata Gangadharan
Pushkar Maitra
Subha Mani
Samyukta Subramanian
02 September, 2013
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