Joint Brown Bag Seminar Series

Title

Effect of Education on Women’s Time Use: A Causal Analysis using DPEP.

Co-authors, Collaborators

Soham Sahoo, Loughborough University & IIM Bangalore and Hema Swaminathan, Asian Development Bank & IIM Bangalore  

Abstract

This paper examines the impact of education (captured through District Primary Education Programme) on Indian women’s time allocation. We use data from the 2019 Time Use Survey and employ a difference-in-difference (DID) framework for this analysis. While DPEP increased women’s completion of primary schooling, it led to gendered shifts in workload. Women spent more time on domestic work, while men spent more time on employment. We find no significant change in the intra-couple time allocation patterns.

Speaker Bio

Tanieem is a sixth year PhD student in Public Policy area. She has completed her MA in Economics from St Joseph’s College, Bangalore. Her broader research interest lies in women’s economics empowerment. She primarily works on asset ownership and education as means of reducing the gender inequality in the Global South.

Title

Encroachment or Entitlement? Negotiating Public Space for Business Sustenance

Co-authors, Collaborators

Arun Sreekumar, Asst Prof of Marketing, IIM A

Abstract

Speaker Bio

Athi Karthick V is a sixth-year doctoral student at IIM Ahmedabad in the Marketing area. His primary research interests lie in prosocial behavior. He is also interested in informal retailers, digital platforms, and consumer wellbeing.

Title

Electric versus Flex-fuel Vehicles – The impact of government policies on automakers’ choice between green technology alternatives.

Co-authors, Collaborators

Haritha Saranga, IIM Bangalore and Sreelata Jonnalagedda, IIM Bangalore

Abstract

Green vehicles like EV and FFV are expected to be the future, however, prohibitively high investment costs force automakers to make choice between alternative technologies. We develop an analytical model to study an automaker’s choice to invest in EV or FFV where a fraction of consumers are endowed with conventional vehicle. Our findings suggest that automakers should prioritize EVs when the fraction of endowed customers is low, and the resale value is above a certain a threshold but not very high. Demand incentives and emission taxes influence portfolio mix and market coverage, resulting in a trade-off between total emission reduction and consumer welfare.

Speaker Bio

Satyajit is a fourth year PhD student in Production and Operations Management area. He has completed his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Durgapur and MBA from IIM Kozhikode. He has total 4 years of work experience in the automotive and consulting industry. His broader research interest lies in Environmentally and Socially sustainable value chain. On the environmental front, he primarily works on EVs and on the social sustainability front, he works on cadaveric organ supply chain. His interest also lies in the behavioural operations space.

Title

Reigniting the flame: Sustaining Usage Through Intermittent Releases of In-game Content

Co-authors, Collaborators

Prof. Soumyakanti Chakraborty, Management Information Systems group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Abstract

Downloadable contents (DLCs) are additional in-game contents that developers release periodically to sustain the interest of users. In this paper, we study the effect of these DLC releases on the usage of a game by analysing actual usage data from 241 DLCs released over a period of 12 years. We use a quasi-experimental analysis to determine the effect on usage, and also investigate the effect of different DLCs categories on usage. We also study the effect of the different categories of game developers, indie and AAA, on the relationship between DLC release and usage. Results indicate that different categories of DLCs have distinct effects on usage. We also find that the release of DLCs of indie games have a greater impact on usage as compared to AAA games. We compare and contrast our results with the extant literature and provide insightful guidelines to game developers on managing DLC releases.

Speaker Bio

Shyam Prasad Ghosh is a 5th year PhD candidate in the Management Information Systems group, IIM Calcutta. He has a multidisciplinary educational and professional background with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering, a post-graduation in MBA, and having worked in the IT and Fintech sectors. His research thesis is on the user engagement in the hedonistic artifacts, with a special inclination towards the gaming domain.

Title

District-Level Longitudinal Implementation of India’s Forest Rights Act   

Co-authors, Collaborators

Prof. Ankur Sarin, Associate Professor, Public Systems Group, IIM Ahmedabad   

Abstract

India’s Forest Rights Act aims to recognize community forest rights (CFRs) on traditional forest resources. I explore the District Collectors’ (DC) role over 13 years of CFRs implementation in India’s Gadchiroli District. I describe DCs’ implementation strategies to engage subordinates, NGO members, and village-level actors to generate intermittent outputs.

Speaker Bio

Santosh Gedam is a 6th-year PhD candidate in the Public Systems Group, IIM Ahmedabad. He has been studying district-level implementation of the Forest Rights Act. He has made a shift from policy practice to research. He has closely worked with administrators at the district and state levels on policy matters. He has also engaged with village-level communities and government actors to improve public service delivery in conflict-prone areas. He has a multi-disciplinary educational background in development practice, business management, law, and engineering. His research interest is in the commoning process, particularly of natural resources.

Title

A divide-and-conquer approach for spatio-temporal analysis of large house price data

Co-authors, Collaborators

Prof. Soudeep Deb, IIM Bangalore

Abstract

Real estate statistical research, especially in spatio-temporal house price dynamics, grapples with slow standard Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) for large datasets. We propose a divide-and-conquer approach, partitioning data into subsets, utilizing parallel Gaussian process models, and aggregating results via Wasserstein barycenter.

Speaker Bio

Kapil Gupta is a PhD candidate in the Decision Sciences area at IIM Bangalore, expected to graduate in 2025. His thesis is on spatio-temporal models in analysing house price dynamics. His research interests also include clustering, variable selection, and sports analytics. He has a master's degree in mathematics from IIT Delhi and a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from IIITDM Chennai. At IIM Bangalore, Mr. Gupta has taught preparatory courses on quantitative techniques and R programming to MBA and PhD students, and the Probability and Statistics course to the Pre-doctoral students. He is also working as a research consultant with IIMB-RERI. Please refer to the web page https://kapil21gupta.github.io/ for more details.

Title

Unveiling Managerial Perceptions of Transgender Individuals Through Stereotype Content Model

Co-authors, Collaborators

Prof. Chetan Joshi (IIMC)

Abstract

This study examines the economic disenfranchisement and discrimination faced by transgender individuals in India. Employing the Stereotype Content Model, our investigation focuses on cisgender managers’ perceptions of transgender individuals within organizational settings. Results reveal that transgender individuals are consistently rated low on both warmth and competence, eliciting heightened feelings of pity among respondents.

Speaker Bio

Deepanshu Wadhwa is a 4th-year doctoral student in the Organizational Behaviour Group at IIM Calcutta. His primary research interests lie in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion. He also works on the topics of leader-member exchange and work-family conflict.

Title

Cooperative Adoption of Supply Chain Traceability

Co-authors, Collaborators

Sanjith Gopalakrishnan (Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University), Sriram Sankaranarayanan (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad)

Abstract

We investigate firms' adoption of traceability technology in supply chain networks. Adopting a cooperative game-theoretic approach, we develop a cost sharing mechanism implementable via transfer payments to upstream suppliers. We show that the cost sharing mechanism satisfies certain formal fairness properties, and, when efficient, supports the optimal traceability adoption strategy. Our findings also extend to a model that allows firms to benefit from partial traceability in their upstream supply chain.

Speaker Bio

Devpriyo Ray is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, in the Operations and Decision Sciences area. His research interests lie in applied game theory, particularly leveraging theoretical frameworks to address practical problems. He is also working in the domain of fair division problems.

Title

Scaling Sustainable Agriculture Interventions through Equipment Sharing: Achieving Triple Bottom Line Performance

Co-authors, Collaborators

Prof. Haritha Saranga - Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Prof. Sriram Narayanan - The Broad College of Business, Michigan State University and Chandrakant Pradhan - Confederation of Indian Industry Foundation

Abstract

This research tackles the issue of agricultural crop residue burning in northwestern India by implementing Sustainable Agriculture Practices. Using an intervention-based research approach, we present a framework highlighting the importance of equipment sharing through the lens of the socio-ecological model. It validates the intervention's success in improving triple-bottom-line performances.

Speaker Bio

Subhankar Saha is a 5th year PhD student in the Production and Operations Management area at IIM Bangalore. His thesis addresses agricultural crop residue burning in northwestern India through sustainable agriculture practices, emphasizing equipment sharing's role in improving triple-bottom-line outcomes. Moreover, his work also relates to spatial interpolation methodology to assess the broader environmental benefits of the intervention. He was awarded the WIPRO Sustainability Fellowship and TATA Chemicals Fellowship. He also works in Healthcare Operations Management, mainly focusing on the (in)equity in healthcare services. He has presented his work at top international operations management conferences and won the best paper award.

Title

Dignity-Armoring in Transactional Subsistence Marketplaces

Co-authors, Collaborators

Prof. Srinivas Venugopal, IIM-C and Prof. Ramendra Singh, IIM-C

Abstract

We investigate how the crucial aspect of dignity is protected in subsistence marketplaces marked by weak/absent formal and informal dignity-protecting institutions. Based on our analysis, we theorize dignity-armoring which are institutionalized practices deployed by subsistence entrepreneurs to protect themselves from chronic and multi-dimensional dignity threats.

Speaker Bio

Sarthak Mohapatra is a 5th-year doctoral student at IIM Calcutta in the Marketing area. His primary research interests lie in the domain of subsistence marketplaces. He also works on green marketing, ethical consumption, and game studies alongside.

Title

Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Understanding OBC Reservations in India

Co-authors, Collaborators

Single authored paper

Abstract

I study the effects of The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act. I evaluate the differential effects on Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SC/STs) relative to the general category. I look at changes in higher education attainment as well as dropouts among these groups.

Speaker Bio

Abhishek Shaw is a PhD student in the Economics Area at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He is interested in development economics and policy. Before his PhD, he worked as Senior Assistant Editor at Economic & Political Weekly (2013-18) and as Editorial Consultant at The India Forum (2018-19).

Title

Industry participation in academia and novelty in science

Co-authors, Collaborators

Nilam Kaushik, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and Satyam Mukherjee, Associate Professor, Shiv Nadar University

Abstract

Novelty in academic publications is important for both scientific and technological breakthroughs. The extent to which industry participates in academic publishing varies across different fields of scientific research. We explore how novelty in academic publications varies across fields with different degrees of industry participation in academic publishing.

Speaker Bio

Anubha Shokhand is a 4th year PhD student in Strategy area at IIM Bangalore. Her primary areas of research are University-Industry Collaboration and Science of Science.

Title

Shipment policies and coordination of fashion products facing dual-selling sessions

Co-authors, Collaborators

Sumanta Basu, Preetam Basu, and Raunak Joshi

Abstract

This study addresses the complex dilemma of adopting a single or dual shipment policy for fashion products facing two independent-selling sessions that meet individual tradeoffs based on delivery uncertainty and production, inventory holding, and shipping costs. Next, this paper extends the model to investigate coordination dynamics under a decentralized setting where traditional contracts fail to coordinate and finally suggests a novel contract for coordination.

Speaker Bio

Safiul Alom is pursuing Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India, in the area of Operation management group. His thesis is on healthcare multichannel operations. His other research interests are fashion supply chain, multichannel, and omnichannel retailing. He has two unpublished research papers under review in ABDC A* journals. Before his Ph.D., he had 12 years of work experience in L&T Limited, Vizag, India, where he actively implemented project management theories such as TOC, CCPM, etc.

Title

Are Gifts a Delight or an Overhead Cost? Impact of Donor Motivations on Preference for Gifts

Co-authors, Collaborators

Sai Siddharth VK, Arvind Sahay, Sou.

Abstract

We investigate the impact of gifts on donor retention. Importantly, across 3 field and 5 lab experiments, we examine if and why donors' refuse gifts, and its consequences on donor retention. We find that around 35% of donors refuse gifts and gifts can lead to negative consequences for donor retention.

Speaker Bio

Sai Siddharth V K is a PhD student in marketing at IIM Ahmedabad. His primary area of research is "Pro-Social behaviour" and nonprofit marketing. He is a recipient of multiple awards including 'Mirae Assets Foundation Merit Scholarship' and 'Sethuraman NASMEI Research Grant Award'

Title

Adjusting to Covariate Shocks: Tiding the COVID-19 Waves in India

Co-authors, Collaborators

Arnab Mukherji: Professor, Public Policy, IIM Bangalore

Abstract

Using the COVID-19 induced lockdown we investigate how household consumptions behaviour in India adjusted to a covariate economic shock. Longitudinal data allows us to capture evidence of differential consumption smoothing across heterogenous income and occupation groups.

Speaker Bio

Deepti Sharma is a 5th year Ph.D. student in Public Policy area at IIM Bangalore, advised by Prof. Arnab Mukherji. She is currently working as a research fellow on a fully funded project by Canadian Institute of Health Research in collaboration with McGill University, Canada on impact evaluation of public funded health insurance in India. Her research interests are in development economics particularly health and gender. Her thesis looks at the consumption smoothing during covariate shock, differences in age-appropriate immunization uptake between insured and non-insured households, measurement error due to respondent’s bias using Time Use Survey in India.