BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0d9aaafab3fb635012cda874fcfc5109 CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20211120T121115 SUMMARY:“Cash for votes: Evidence from India” - A Talk by Dr. Shabana Mitra DESCRIPTION:Dr. Shabana Mitra, Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Managemen t in Banglore, India, is going to deliver a talk on\n“Cash for votes: Evide nce from India.”\nDr. Shabana Mitra is an Assistant Professor of Public Pol icy at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Her main research interes ts are measurement, causes and consequences of poverty and inequality with special focus on the Latin American and South Asian regions. She also works on political economy implications of affirmative action policies on gender and caste based inequalities in the Indian context. Prior to joining IIMB, she has worked at the World Bank, Washington DC and the Peace Research Ins titute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway. She completed her PhD in Economics from Vander bilt University in 2011. She has publications in reputed journals like Soci al Indicators Research and Economic Journal among others.\nThe abstract of the research talk is shared below.\nThe prevalence of vote-buying in democr atic elections where stringent restrictions on corporate donations to polit ical parties exist. We combine data from state assembly elections in India with household-level consumer expenditure surveys (conducted by NSSO) over the period 2004-11. Exploiting a difference-in-differences methodology, we estimate the effects elections have on the consumption of various household items: food, clothes, education-related, etc. Moreover, there is heterogen eity in such consumption adjustments across households. Our estimates sugge st that legal sources of funds are not sufficient for generating such “spik es” in consumption and indicate the role of the hidden economy in politics. \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Dr. Shabana Mitra, Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Banglore, India, is going to deliver a ta lk on

“Cash for votes: Evidence from India.”

Dr. Sha bana Mitra is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Indian In stitute of Management, Bangalore. Her main research interests are measureme nt, causes and consequences of poverty and inequality with special focus on the Latin American and South Asian regions. She also works on political ec onomy implications of affirmative action policies on gender and caste based inequalities in the Indian context. Prior to joining IIMB, she has worked at the World Bank, Washington DC and the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PR IO), Norway. She completed her PhD in Economics from Vanderbilt University in 2011. She has publications in reputed journals like Social Indicators Re search and Economic Journal among others.

< strong>The abstract of the research talk is shared below.

The prevalence of vote-buying in democratic electio ns where stringent restrictions on corporate donations to political parties exist. We combine data from state assembly elections in India with househo ld-level consumer expenditure surveys (conducted by NSSO) over the period 2 004-11. Exploiting a difference-in-differences methodology, we estimate the effects elections have on the consumption of various household items: food , clothes, education-related, etc. Moreover, there is heterogeneity in such consumption adjustments across households. Our estimates suggest that lega l sources of funds are not sufficient for generating such “spikes” in consu mption and indicate the role of the hidden economy in politics.

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