Economics

University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University or CU) is a collegiate public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.&nbsp;Within India it is recognized as a &quot;Five-Star University&quot; and accredited &quot;A&quot; Grade by National Assessment and Accreditation Council.

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The University of Calcutta has secured the Fifth position among the Universities of India in the prestigious &quot;Indian University Ranking 2019&quot; list, released by the NIRF of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

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It was established on 24 January 1857, and was one of the first institutions in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and Western-style university. Its alumni and faculty include several heads of state, heads of government, social reformers, prominent artists, only academy award winner and Dirac medal winner in India, many Fellows of the Royal Society and five Nobel laureates as of 2019 which is highest in South Asia.

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The objective of this study is to provide a quantifiable measure of the distributional content of education and its implications on earnings distribution by gender across different groups of people by using survey data in India. We analyse educational disparities among the children with age up to 14 years by gender, and household specific characters with Indian data. The study observes that, in the rural economy, the girls have less access to full time education than boys. In the urban region, on the other hand, the access to full time education at primary level is more for girls than for boys. The estimated coverage is less in the rural areas than in urban areas. The HOI is more among the urban children than among the rural children. Parent's education has the highest contribution to inequality of opportunity to full time education at primary or upper primary level. © 2019, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Voprosy Obrazovaniya

Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in India: Implications of earning distribution and affirmative action

This paper attempts to address the effects of different types of loan contract on a borrower's incentive for investment in information.We model the trade-off that a borrower faces when she collects information about the potential of her intended projects both under individual and joint liability loan contracts. Even under limited liability, the borrower faces a trade-off at information collection stage between the cost of signal collection and the cost of her time and effort for project execution in case the project fails.We show that joint liability contract induces borrowers to invest more in information than individual liability for low rates of interest. However, for some high rates of interest, borrowers invest positive amount in information collection under individual liability, but do not take up the project under joint liability.

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Opportunities and Challenges in Development: Essays for Sarmila Banerjee

Group formation and endogenous information collection in microcredit

Business Management

Asian Journal of Managerial Science

Emergence of Women-Owned SMEs as a Game-Changer of Malaysia in the Era of Digitalization

Journal of Income \& Wealth (The)

From employment and unemployment survey to labour force survey in India: Distribution of sample and efficiency of estimates

Econometrics in Theory and Practice

Modelling Volatility Clustering

Indian Economy: Reforms and Development

Structural Transformation of Employment and Wage Inequality in the High Growth Regime: A Study with Micro-Level Data in India

Indian Economy: Reforms and Development: Essays in Honour of Manoj Kumar {\ldots}

Structural Transformation of Employment and Wage Inequality

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Political Economy of Identity Formation: Theory and Evidence from India

Global Competitiveness: Business Transformation in the Digital Era

How Trump's steel and aluminium tariff shapes future world trade

Abstract The article seeks to develop a class focused theory of development induced internal migration in the context of India's economic transition. Through a critical interrogation of the hegemonic development approach, it (a) problematizes the norms and telos that underscore a presumption of migration as an inevitable journey from the rural to urban as part of the logic of capitalist development and (b) showcases the novelty and importance of class understood as a process of surplus labor and the epistemo-ontology of overdetermination in disinterring India's migration in the decentered-disaggregated class related space, elucidating heterogeneous flows and streams of migration of India's working population. Furthermore, we deploy this class focused approach to forward a rethought rendition of primitive accumulation that destabilizes the de-politicized category of ?displacement? induced migration and binary classification of voluntary-involuntary migration as presented in the mainstream development literature. Instead, following capitalist development, we highlight the political economy of expropriation of space and livelihoods and of force and violence, in shaping the multi-varied migration processes of India's working populace and their role in reconstituting the class structure of Indian economy.

Journal of Labor and Society

Beyond the prism of rural to urban and voluntary-involuntary in India: A class focused theory of migration