Proposal is titled ‘Social identity, taste bias and under-provisioning of public goods’
10 April, 2019: A research proposal titled ‘Social identity, taste bias and under-provisioning of public goods’, co-authored by Professor Ritwik Banerjee, IIM Bangalore faculty from the Economics & Social Sciences area, has been awarded a grant of 41,542 GBP by the International Growth Centre (IGC). The grant will be managed by IIMB.
The co-principal investigators of the external research grant are Anujit Chakraborty from UC Davis, Ashokankur Datta from Shiv Nadar University, and Arka Roy Chaudhuri from ISI Delhi.
Data shows that public good provision in India decreases with an increase in caste based fractionalization. While past research documents this association, the causal interpretation and the deeper mechanisms driving the result is an open question. The research project aims to plug this gap by identifying the precise causal connection between caste fractionalization in India and under provisioning of public goods.
This project is important in the context of Bihar, one of the poorer states in India, and broadly in any developing country context. It has been seen that key public goods such as schools, healthcare services and irrigation networks play a key role in the growth and development process of an economy. It is also known that caste plays a major role in the economic and social relations in Bihar and the rest of India. It is in this context that the research assumes salience. Through this project, the researchers would be able to uncover the causal connection between social heterogeneity and public good provision and comment on the underlying mechanisms behind this channel. This would help them identify bottlenecks in the provision of public goods and inform policy regarding the optimal manner of provision of public goods.
The International Growth Centre aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. IGC’s global research agenda focuses on four key drivers of growth: state effectiveness, productive firms, liveable cities, and reliable energy access. The IGC works with hundreds of top academics in leading universities around the world. It operates programmes in 12 partner countries and has ongoing engagements in a further four countries on key government priorities.
To know more about Professor Ritwik Banerjee, please click here.
Proposal is titled ‘Social identity, taste bias and under-provisioning of public goods’
10 April, 2019: A research proposal titled ‘Social identity, taste bias and under-provisioning of public goods’, co-authored by Professor Ritwik Banerjee, IIM Bangalore faculty from the Economics & Social Sciences area, has been awarded a grant of 41,542 GBP by the International Growth Centre (IGC). The grant will be managed by IIMB.
The co-principal investigators of the external research grant are Anujit Chakraborty from UC Davis, Ashokankur Datta from Shiv Nadar University, and Arka Roy Chaudhuri from ISI Delhi.
Data shows that public good provision in India decreases with an increase in caste based fractionalization. While past research documents this association, the causal interpretation and the deeper mechanisms driving the result is an open question. The research project aims to plug this gap by identifying the precise causal connection between caste fractionalization in India and under provisioning of public goods.
This project is important in the context of Bihar, one of the poorer states in India, and broadly in any developing country context. It has been seen that key public goods such as schools, healthcare services and irrigation networks play a key role in the growth and development process of an economy. It is also known that caste plays a major role in the economic and social relations in Bihar and the rest of India. It is in this context that the research assumes salience. Through this project, the researchers would be able to uncover the causal connection between social heterogeneity and public good provision and comment on the underlying mechanisms behind this channel. This would help them identify bottlenecks in the provision of public goods and inform policy regarding the optimal manner of provision of public goods.
The International Growth Centre aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. IGC’s global research agenda focuses on four key drivers of growth: state effectiveness, productive firms, liveable cities, and reliable energy access. The IGC works with hundreds of top academics in leading universities around the world. It operates programmes in 12 partner countries and has ongoing engagements in a further four countries on key government priorities.
To know more about Professor Ritwik Banerjee, please click here.