Debdatta Pal
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debdatta Pal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debdatta |
| FAMILY NAME | Pal |
| SIGNATURE | PAL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Management Lucknow |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2881-6004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Do political elites capture crop insurance? Evidence from Indian agricultural households
Fuel Collection and Children’s Educational Performance
In developing countries, rural households rely, at least partially, on solid fuels for their cooking, heating, and lighting needs. Household members, particularly women and children, provide the labour hours for manually collecting these fuels from forests, own land, and nearby areas. The literature on the human capital implications of fuel collection activity is scarce. In this study, using Indian households’ survey data, we find evidence of chi…
Scarcity and market design
Moving up the energy ladder
Is there political elite capture in access to energy sources? Evidence from Indian households
Linking Credit with other Markets
This article uses the lens of information asymmetry and transaction costs to explore the problems of rural credit markets in less-developed countries. We show that in the absence of efficient markets in factor services, interlinked credit seems to provide a good solution to the typical problems of poor agrarian economies. These issues include seasonality, non-standard factor services, uncertain input supply, adverse price fluctuations, and the op…
A note on household approach to credit rationing in agrarian economies
Using clues from transaction cost economics this note develops an intertemporal agricultural household model to explain the demand-side credit rationing from formal financial institutions in agrarian economies. The model employs ex-ante transaction costs, namely search cost and negotiation cost to explain this phenomenon. The model shows that with market failure an agricultural household's production decision is not separate from its consumption …
A note on household approach to credit rationing in agrarian economies
Using clues from transaction cost economics this note develops an intertemporal agricultural household model to explain the demand-side credit rationing from formal financial institutions in agrarian economies. The model employs ex-ante transaction costs, namely search cost and negotiation cost to explain this phenomenon. The model shows that with market failure an agricultural household's production decision is not separate from its consumption …
Linking Credit with other Markets
This article uses the lens of information asymmetry and transaction costs to explore the problems of rural credit markets in less-developed countries. We show that in the absence of efficient markets in factor services, interlinked credit seems to provide a good solution to the typical problems of poor agrarian economies. These issues include seasonality, non-standard factor services, uncertain input supply, adverse price fluctuations, and the op…
Is there political elite capture in access to energy sources? Evidence from Indian households
Moving up the energy ladder
Scarcity and market design
Do political elites capture crop insurance? Evidence from Indian agricultural households
Fuel Collection and Children’s Educational Performance
In developing countries, rural households rely, at least partially, on solid fuels for their cooking, heating, and lighting needs. Household members, particularly women and children, provide the labour hours for manually collecting these fuels from forests, own land, and nearby areas. The literature on the human capital implications of fuel collection activity is scarce. In this study, using Indian households’ survey data, we find evidence of chi…
Economics (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Caste (3 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (3 works) · Microeconomics (3 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (3 works) · Agrarian society (2 works) · Development economics (2 works)