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Mother or child? Intra-household redistribution under gender-asymmetric altruism

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult...

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Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Community?

Burger, Ronelle; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Owens, Trudy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that, when such incentives are provided, there need not exist any meaningful relationship between beneficiary welfare and the extent of community participation implemented by an...

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A Model of NGO Regulation with an Application to Uganda

Burger, Ronelle; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Owens, Trudy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to increase current project spending, but imposes wasteful costs of...

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Model of NGO regulation with an application to Uganda

Burger, Ronelle; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Owens, Trudy - 2011

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Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Community?

Burger, Ronelle; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Owens, Trudy - 2014

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Living wage', class conflict and ethnic strife

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2008

We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where two...

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Arranged' marriage, co-residence and female schooling: a model with evidence from India

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Maitra, Pushkar; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2008

We model the consequences of parental control over choice of wives for sons, for parental incentives to educate daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from having married sons live with them. By choosing uneducated...

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Supply theory sans profit-maximization

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

predictive content of the traditional theory of competitive supply. A number of key results in the deterministic theory follow as … predictive content of the classical theory of competitive firm behavior from its a priori roots in profit maximization, while … subsuming the traditional theory as a special case. …

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Contraction consistent stochastic choice correspondence

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

-317, 1971) and Dasgupta and Pattanaik (Econ Theory 31: 35-50, 2007) fall out as corollaries. Thus, conditions are established … axiomatic foundation for a general revealed preference theory of choice behaviour. …

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Comparative statics for a consumer with possibly multiple optimum consumption bundles

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Pattanaik, Prasanta K. - 2010

in the standard revealed preference theory of consumers' behaviour. These results are however derived for demand … preference approach to the theory of consumers' behaviour, this note establishes such results for demand correspondences; the …

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