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Eye-image as Nonverbal Social Cue has Asymmetric Gender Effects in Dictator Taking Games (2023)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, S. M., Young Jeon, J., & Saha, B. (2023). Eye-image as Nonverbal Social Cue has Asymmetric Gender Effects in Dictator Taking Games. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 107, Article 102087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2023.102087

Dictator giving games often demonstrate that nonverbal social cues, such as drawn-in eyes on display, induce pro-social behavior in the form of giving more. Notably, sometimes this effect is seen to differ between males and females. However, the effe... Read More about Eye-image as Nonverbal Social Cue has Asymmetric Gender Effects in Dictator Taking Games.

Bilateral Delegation, Wage Bargaining and Innovation (2023)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A., & Saha, B. (in press). Bilateral Delegation, Wage Bargaining and Innovation. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, https://doi.org/10.1628/jite-2024-0023

A firm undertakes workers’ productivity improving R&D before negotiating wage with the union, where negotiation can take place between their incentivised delegates. Under bilateral delegation profit, R&D and productivity-wage gap all increase, whilst... Read More about Bilateral Delegation, Wage Bargaining and Innovation.

Prejudice, Bias and Identity Neutral Policy (2020)
Journal Article
Bag, P. K., Saha, B., & Sikdar, S. (2021). Prejudice, Bias and Identity Neutral Policy. Social Choice and Welfare, 56(1), 173-203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-020-01275-x

How does identity blind hiring, as opposed to sighted hiring, influence matching between high ability candidates and high value jobs? Job seekers might face constraints in signaling their abilities for lack of wealth and being denied education. Addin... Read More about Prejudice, Bias and Identity Neutral Policy.

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.

Failing to Learn: India's Schools and Teachers (2018)
Book Chapter
Saha, B., & Saha, S. (2018). Failing to Learn: India's Schools and Teachers. In R. Prasad, C. Rowley, & A. Banerjee (Eds.), Changing the Indian economy : renewal, reform and revival (55-75). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-102005-0.00004-6

India has made substantial progress in expanding schooling facilities and is now poised to achieve universal primary education; however, children’s learning is not improving. Two major national assessment surveys showed that the numeracy and literacy... Read More about Failing to Learn: India's Schools and Teachers.

Enhancing Excellence: Socially Motivated Private Schools of Nepal (2018)
Journal Article
Pal, S., & Saha, B. (2019). Enhancing Excellence: Socially Motivated Private Schools of Nepal. The Journal of Development Studies, 55(5), 765-785. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2018.1464142

Social motivation can promote efficiency of public service delivery though its role in providing schooling is little understood. We provide both theoretical and empirical insights as to why not-for-profit private schools could enhance excellence in s... Read More about Enhancing Excellence: Socially Motivated Private Schools of Nepal.

Gender Differences in the Giving and Taking Variants of the Dictator Game (2017)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, S., Jeon, J., & Saha, B. (2017). Gender Differences in the Giving and Taking Variants of the Dictator Game. Southern Economic Journal, 84(2), 474-483. https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12223

We run between-subject dictator games with exogenously specified “give” or “take” frames involving a balanced pool of male and female dictators and constant payoff possibilities. We find the following: Females allocate more under the taking frame tha... Read More about Gender Differences in the Giving and Taking Variants of the Dictator Game.

Corrupt Bookmaking in a Fixed Odds Illegal Betting Market (2017)
Journal Article
Bag, P., & Saha, B. (2017). Corrupt Bookmaking in a Fixed Odds Illegal Betting Market. The Economic Journal, 127(601), 624-652. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12483

Illegal betting in a two-team sports contest is studied with player sabotage instigated by a monopolist bookmaker. Whereas punters hold beliefs about the teams’ winning chances correlated with Nature's draw, the bookmaker's information is noise-free.... Read More about Corrupt Bookmaking in a Fixed Odds Illegal Betting Market.

Bilateral delegation in duopoly wage and employment bargaining (2016)
Journal Article
Chatterjee, I., & Saha, B. (2017). Bilateral delegation in duopoly wage and employment bargaining. Managerial and Decision Economics, 38(4), 607-621. https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.2807

We study bilateral delegation in wage and employment bargaining between firms and unions in a Cournot duopoly. Incentive delegation creates frictions for each party between its objectives of within-firm rent extraction and market/job stealing from th... Read More about Bilateral delegation in duopoly wage and employment bargaining.

Match-Fixing in a Monopoly Betting Market (2016)
Journal Article
Bag, P., & Saha, B. (2016). Match-Fixing in a Monopoly Betting Market. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 26(1), 257-289. https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12172

A monopolist bookmaker may set betting odds on a fairly even contest to induce match-fixing by an influential corrupt punter. His loss to the corrupt punter is more than made up for by enticing enough ordinary punters to bet on the losing team. This... Read More about Match-Fixing in a Monopoly Betting Market.

Entry Threats and Inefficiency in `Efficient Bargaining' (2015)
Journal Article
Pal, R., & Saha, B. (2016). Entry Threats and Inefficiency in `Efficient Bargaining'. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 63(3), 258-277. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12091

We study limit pricing in a model of entry with asymmetric information, where the incumbent firm's wage is endogenously determined through ‘efficient bargaining’ with its union. In the presence of entry threat, the incumbent firm-union pair may face... Read More about Entry Threats and Inefficiency in `Efficient Bargaining'.

Privatization, underpricing and welfare in the presence of foreign competition (2015)
Journal Article
Ghosh, A., Mitra, M., & Saha, B. (2015). Privatization, underpricing and welfare in the presence of foreign competition. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 17(3), 433-460. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12095

We analyze privatization in a differentiated oligopoly setting with a domestic public firm and foreign profit-maximizing firms. In particular, we examine pricing below marginal cost by public firm, the optimal degree of privatization and, the relatio... Read More about Privatization, underpricing and welfare in the presence of foreign competition.

From rigidity to flexibility (2015)
Book Chapter
Saha, B. (2015). From rigidity to flexibility. In K. Ramaswamy (Ed.), Labour, employment and economic growth in India (221-238). Cambridge University Press

Pollution Tax, Partial Privatization and Environment (2015)
Journal Article
Pal, R., & Saha, B. (2015). Pollution Tax, Partial Privatization and Environment. Resource and Energy Economics, 40, 19-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2015.01.004

Considering a differentiated mixed duopoly we show that when privatization and pollution tax are used together environmental damage will be non-monotone in the level of privatization, and optimal privatization is always partial privatization. Whether... Read More about Pollution Tax, Partial Privatization and Environment.

Labour markets: Balancing freedom and protection (2014)
Book Chapter
Saha, B., & Pal, R. (2014). Labour markets: Balancing freedom and protection. In A. Goyal (Ed.), Handbook of the Indian economy in the 21st century : understanding the inherent dynamism. Oxford University Press

Institutions or geography: Which matters most in economic development? (2013)
Journal Article
Saha, B. (2013). Institutions or geography: Which matters most in economic development?. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 25(1-2), 69-89. https://doi.org/10.1177/0260107914524668

Although development economics generally confines its attention to the last 60 years, there is a growing body of research that looks back centuries and tries to determine if the events in the long past are responsible for underdevelopment of today’s... Read More about Institutions or geography: Which matters most in economic development?.