Applied Microeconomics
Applied Microeconomics
The Applied Microeconomics research group unites researchers working on a broad array of topics within such areas as labour economics, economics of education, health economics, family economics, urban economics, environmental economics, and the economics of science and innovation. The group operates in close collaboration with the CAGE Research Centre.
The group participates in the CAGE seminar on Applied Economics, which runs weekly on Tuesdays at 2:15pm. Students and faculty members of the group present their ongoing work in two brown bag seminars, held weekly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 1pm. Students, in collaboration with faculty members, also organise a bi-weekly reading group in applied econometrics on Thursdays at 1pm. The group organises numerous events throughout the year, including the Research Away Day and several thematic workshops.
Our activities
Work in Progress seminars
Tuesdays and Wednesdays 1-2pm
Students and faculty members of the group present their work in progress in two brown bag seminars. See below for a detailed scheduled of speakers.
Applied Econometrics reading group
Thursdays (bi-weekly) 1-2pm
Organised by students in collaboration with faculty members. See the Events calendar below for further details
People
Academics
Academics associated with the Applied Microeconomics Group are:
Research Students
Events
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Mausumi Das (Delhi School of Economics)
Mausumi Das (visiting Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics) will be presenting at the CAGE AMES Seminar on 23rd October.
Title: Corruption, Culture and Comparative Development
Abstract: Agents in an economy differ in terms of their moral attitude towards corruption. Attitudes are culturally acquired and influence agents' occupational choice, which in turn impacts growth. In a heterogeneous agents framework, we explore this interaction between corruption, culture and the level of economic activities. We show that relationship between high-moral attitude and economic growth could be non-monotonic. Presence of many high moral agents helps in reducing the overall degree of corruption. At the same time, for any given level of corruption, high moral agents are less adaptable to game an already corrupt system in pursuit of economic profits. Thus the initial cultural composition of the population interacts with economic incentives to generate differential growth paths for different economies. Moreover the cultural composition of the population changes endogenously responding to economic growth, which creates possibilities of multiple balanced growth paths and culture-induced poverty traps.