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SUMMARY:Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers on Women’s Educational Time Investments: Evidence from the Indian Time Use Survey
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Economics\, SRM University–AP\, invites faculty members\, researchers\, scholars\, and students to the September edition of the SRMAP Economics Virtual Seminar Series. \nThe session will feature Dr Sneha Lamba\, Assistant Professor\, IIT Delhi\, who will discuss the impacts of conditional cash transfer programmes on women’s allocation of time towards education\, drawing on evidence from the Indian Time Use Survey. The seminar will offer an opportunity to examine the relationship between social protection interventions\, women’s educational investments\, and time allocation within the Indian context. \nSpeaker: Dr Sneha Lamba\, Assistant Professor\, IIT Delhi\nTitle: Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers on Women’s Educational Time Investments: Evidence from the Indian Time Use Survey\nDate: September 16\, 2026\nTime: 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM\nMode: Online via Zoom \nAbstract: Human capital formation among adolescent girls is frequently  constrained by socioeconomic norms that favor early marriage\, household  labor\, and reduced schooling. We study the impacts of a large-scale conditional cash transfer (CCT) program in India—the Kanyashree  Prakalpa—that incentivizes girls’ education and delays school dropout  through financial incentives. Using time-use data from a national survey and exploiting cross-state policy variations\, we estimate the program’s intent-to-treat effects on educational time investments at home and at  school. Our estimates indicate that the program raised girls’ time devoted to educational activities and to homework/tuition by about 3.5 percent and 9 percent\, respectively\, relative to the sample mean. This was accompanied by a substantial reduction in time spent on domestic work. By contrast\, we detect no statistically significant changes in time spent in school at either the extensive or intensive margin. We  also find long-term effects: women exposed to the program exhibit higher educational attainment and greater investment in educational activities in early adulthood\, sometimes well after program eligibility has expired. These findings contribute to the growing evidence on the role of CCTs in reshaping intra-household time allocation and generating persistent gains in human capital formation for women. \nZoom registration link: https://srmap.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oTEu3E5mRkOQVtt8dLwrHQ \nThe seminar is part of the monthly SRMAP Economics Virtual Seminar Series\, held on the third Wednesday of every month\, providing a platform for academic exchange and discussion on contemporary issues in economics.
URL:https://events.srmap.edu.in/event/srmap-economics-virtual-seminar-series-impacts-of-conditional-cash-transfers-on-womens-educational-time-investments-evidence-from-the-indian-time-use-survey/
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SUMMARY:Capturing Women’s Employment in India – Challenges in Surveys
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Economics\, SRM University–AP\, invites faculty members\, researchers\, scholars\, and students to the October edition of the SRMAP Economics Virtual Seminar Series. \nThe session will feature Dr Rosa Abraham\, Assistant Professor\, Azim Premji University\, who will examine the challenges associated with capturing women’s employment in India through surveys. The discussion will focus on the complexities involved in measuring women’s participation in economic activities and the methodological challenges that influence how women’s employment is identified and recorded in survey data. \nSpeaker: Dr Rosa Abraham\, Assistant Professor\, Azim Premji University\nTitle: Capturing Women’s Employment in India – Challenges in Surveys\nDate: October 21\, 2026\nTime: 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM\nMode: Online via Zoom \nThe seminar will provide an opportunity to engage with important questions surrounding employment measurement\, gender and labour markets\, and the interpretation of survey-based evidence in the Indian context.
URL:https://events.srmap.edu.in/event/capturing-womens-employment-in-india-challenges-in-surveys/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Departmental Events,Economics Events,Events,Virtual Seminar Series,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20261118T153000
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SUMMARY:Identifying Hand-to-Mouth Households in India
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Economics\, SRM University–AP\, invites faculty members\, researchers\, scholars\, and students to the November edition of the SRMAP Economics Virtual Seminar Series. \nThe session will feature Dr Aditi Singh\, Assistant Professor\, Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL). The seminar will explore the identification of hand-to-mouth households in India\, with a focus on understanding household financial circumstances\, consumption behaviour\, and access to liquid financial resources. \nThe discussion will offer valuable insights into household financial vulnerability and the economic factors that influence financial decision-making and consumption patterns. \nSpeaker: Dr Aditi Singh\, Assistant Professor\, Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL)\nTitle: Identifying Hand-to-Mouth Households in India\nDate: November 18\, 2026\nTime: 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM\nMode: Online via Zoom \nAbstract: Like most emerging economies\, India has no dataset that jointly observes household income\, consumption\, and wealth. We harmonize two datasets to create the first ever full balance sheet of Indian households. We then classify households into whether they are financially constrained or not\, and find that roughly half of Indian households are wealthy hand-to-mouth\, holding substantial wealth in land and gold but too little liquidity to cover even half a month of income. This classification hinges crucially on whether gold counts as liquid or illquid. The usability of this wealth\, not only its amount\, shapes monetary transmission. Four months after a contractionary surprise\, poor hand-to-mouth households cut consumption 0.17 log points more than wealthy ones; by month seven\, wealthy households without potential gold collateral cut consumption 0.79 log points more than those with it\, a collateral margin with no counterpart in the mortgage channels of advanced economies. Counting only the poor hand-to-mouth as constrained would therefore miss most of the households that respond as if constrained: those whose wealth sits in land and in gold too small to pledge. \nThe seminar will provide a platform for participants to engage with contemporary research in household finance and deepen their understanding of financial behaviour in the Indian context.
URL:https://events.srmap.edu.in/event/identifying-hand-to-mouth-households-in-india/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Departmental Events,Economics Events,Events,Virtual Seminar Series,Webinars
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SUMMARY:Demonetization and Child Health: Evidence from India
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Economics\, SRM University–AP\, invites faculty members\, researchers\, scholars\, and students to the December edition of the SRMAP Economics Virtual Seminar Series. \nThe session will feature Dr Shampa Bhattacharjee\, Associate Professor\, Shiv Nadar University\, Institute of Eminence\, who will present research examining the relationship between demonetization and child health outcomes in India. \nThe seminar will explore the broader implications of a major economic policy intervention and its effects on household welfare and child health. The discussion will provide an opportunity to understand how economic policies can have consequences extending beyond financial and macroeconomic indicators to social and health outcomes. \nSpeaker: Dr Shampa Bhattacharjee\, Associate Professor\, Shiv Nadar University\, Institute of Eminence\nTitle: Demonetization and Child Health: Evidence from India\nDate: December 16\, 2026\nTime: 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM\nMode: Online via Zoom \nAbstract: This paper analyses the impact of the 2016 Indian demonetization episode on infant mortality. The demonetization policy rendered approximately 86% of circulating Indian currency invalid as legal tender\, resulting in substantial cash shortages in the following months. People could exchange old notes for new ones at banks. Thus\, the effects of demonetization are expected to be more pronounced for districts with lower access to banks. To identify the health effects of demonetization\, we use a previous bank branch expansion policy that created a discontinuity in access to banks at a predetermined policy cutoff. Using a difference-in-discontinuities design\, we compare infant mortality before and after demonetization across districts with differing levels of bank access near the policy threshold. Our findings indicate that rural households residing in districts with greater access to banks near the threshold experienced significantly lower infant mortality. \nThe seminar will bring together members of the academic community for an engaging discussion on economic policy\, household welfare\, and health outcomes in India.
URL:https://events.srmap.edu.in/event/demonetization-and-child-health-evidence-from-india/
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