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Essays On The Economics Of Conflict., Ranajoy Guha Neogi Dr.
Essays On The Economics Of Conflict., Ranajoy Guha Neogi Dr.
Doctoral Theses
The thesis encompasses three chapters which provide policy-relevant insights into the domain of conflict economics. The research endeavour goes deep into exploring the underlying linkages of varied economic and non-economic factors (e.g., culture, religion and myriads of ethnic factors) leading to the multiple facets of economic outcomes. The analyses in the thesis, which fall in the realm of applied microeconomic theory, are facilitated by different tools of game theory and public economics. Although the focuses of these chapters lie in the domain of economics of conflict (and its policy implications under different situations), each chapter addresses the conflicts engendered in …
Interplay Between Education And Identity: Inter Caste Marriages, Gendered Stream Choice And Caste Peer Effects., Komal Sahai Dr.
Interplay Between Education And Identity: Inter Caste Marriages, Gendered Stream Choice And Caste Peer Effects., Komal Sahai Dr.
Doctoral Theses
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A Brief Treatise On Bayesian Inverse Regression., Debashis Chatterjee Dr.
A Brief Treatise On Bayesian Inverse Regression., Debashis Chatterjee Dr.
Doctoral Theses
Inverse problems, where in a broad sense the task is to learn from the noisy response about some unknown function, usually represented as the argument of some known functional form, has received wide attention in the general scientific disciplines. However, apart from the class of traditional inverse problems, there exists another class of inverse problems, which qualify as more authentic class of inverse problems, but unfortunately did not receive as much attention.In a nutshell, the other class of inverse problems can be described as the problem of predicting the covariates corresponding to given responses and the rest of the data. …
On Measuring The Cost Of Children:The Case Of Rural Maharashtra., Manisha Chakrabarty Dr.
On Measuring The Cost Of Children:The Case Of Rural Maharashtra., Manisha Chakrabarty Dr.
Doctoral Theses
In this dissertation we have attempted to measure the cost of children, which plays a crucial role in matters relating to welfare and public policy like child benefits and compensation policies of the government. The cost is measured based on the single equation as well as the systems approach using the 38th round National Sample Survey (NSS) data on household consumer expenditure for rural Maharashtra (relating to the period of January to December, 1983).The first chapter provides a brief account of the basic literature on empirical demand analysis which is relevant for welfare comparison between households. To be specific in …
Estimation Of Demographic Parameters For India., S. Guha Roy Dr.
Estimation Of Demographic Parameters For India., S. Guha Roy Dr.
Doctoral Theses
There has been a peralstent empliasis both at the na tional and international levela on the developmont and application of techniques of estimation of demographio variablos from incomplete or inagcurute data in Coneietont wi th the theme of reuoaroh, the the lesu developed rogiona. present study tries to provide estimates of vital rates and prospective population trends in India and to form a basis for measuri.ng suoh hunan neede as vducation, employment, f'anily weltare,and few others in terms of population size,growth, ago s truature and nuptiality. The other major objectivu is to undertake furthor utilization of data generated by tihe …
Life Table Construction From Population Age Distributions Suffering From Response Biases In Age-Reporting:A New Technique(Not Requiring Age Smoothing)With Application To Indian Census Age-Returns., Subrata Lahiri Dr.
Doctoral Theses
Preliminary concepts of life tables, its role in demographic analysis, a brief chronological review of various literature on the construction of life table starting from John Grants investigation on mortality, along with an introduction to the basic problem and objectives of the present study.Chapter II describes the concept and utility of cumulative census survival ratios, first introduced by Professors Ansley J. Coale and Paul Demeny (1967) as the ratio of the number of persons aged x+10 end above enumerated at time t+10 to the number of persons aged x and above enumerated at time t. These are compared to the …
Study Of Indian Nuptiality., Chitta R. Malaker Dr.
Study Of Indian Nuptiality., Chitta R. Malaker Dr.
Doctoral Theses
DEFINITION OF NUPTIALITYAccordi ng to the latest International Demographic Terminelogy (Grebeni k and ill, 1974), t he term 'nuptiality' is used to denote the whole subject of the formation and dissolutien of sexual uni ons, includi ng the study of marriage, consensual uni ons, separation, di vorce, widowhood etc. It is also used, in a narrower sense, as a synonym for marriage in such terms as nuptiality rates;and nuptiality probabilities, The study of nuptiality deals with the frequency of marriage, 1.e., unions between persons of opposite sexes which involve rights and obligations fixed by law and custom; with the characteriatics …