All Outputs (3)

Household Self-Employment Eliminates Child Labour (2019)
Book Chapter
Saha, B. (2019). Household Self-Employment Eliminates Child Labour. In S. Bandyopadhya, & M. Dutta (Eds.), Opportunities and challenges in development : essays for Sarmila Banerjee (357-366). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9981-7

This paper shows that if a minimal proportion of poor households is empowered with self-employment opportunities, child labour will not arise in equilibrium. The economy will have a unique `good' equilib- rium generating a suciently high wage to supp... Read More about Household Self-Employment Eliminates Child Labour.

Credit Where Credit's Due: The Enabling Effects of Empowerment in Indian Microfinance (2019)
Journal Article
Saha, B., & Sangwan, N. (2019). Credit Where Credit's Due: The Enabling Effects of Empowerment in Indian Microfinance. World Development, 122, 537-551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.06.009

We utilise primary data collected from a North Indian village in 2015 to 2016 and examine the impact of women’s empowerment on their creditworthiness measured by the total annual loan amounts. Our key explanatory variable – an empowerment index – has... Read More about Credit Where Credit's Due: The Enabling Effects of Empowerment in Indian Microfinance.

Goal Setting as a Motivator for Student Performance: Evidence from Lab Experiments (2019)
Journal Article
Saha, B., & Roy, S. (2019). Goal Setting as a Motivator for Student Performance: Evidence from Lab Experiments. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 19(3), 153-165

Can goal-setting motivate college-level students to improve their performance? We report the results of a two-stage study designed to test the effects of performance-based versus action-based goals. We find that performance-based goals are not signif... Read More about Goal Setting as a Motivator for Student Performance: Evidence from Lab Experiments.