Ashish Sedai
Biographic Data
| ID | 4619385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashish Sedai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashish |
| FAMILY NAME | Sedai |
| SIGNATURE | SEDAI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8647-2268 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Does bank expansion reduce domestic violence? Causal evidence from India
Persistent Agricultural Shocks and Child Poverty
This study shows how persistent agricultural shocks in Ethiopia affect education, health and labor outcomes through a time-use study of young people aged 5-22. Leveraging five rounds of the Young Lives Study from 2002-2016, we use dynamic panel instrumental variable regressions to account for the unobserved heterogeneity and serial correlation in the estimation. Agricultural shocks significantly reduce schooling participation and time spent in sc…
Household welfare effects of Roscas
Well-being costs of unpaid care
Using a contextualized primary time-use survey (TUS) data, we examine the gendered effects of unpaid care work on care providers’ well-being outcomes– labor supply, time allocation, life satisfaction, happiness, and health in India. A reduced form weighted composite score of health conditions and assistance need within household, and presence of care centers in the community is used as an instrument for caregiving. Using two-stage least squared i…
Friends and benefits? Endogenous rotating savings and credit associations as alternative for women’s empowerment in India
Wages in Imperfect Markets
This study analyzes the effects of structural market imperfections on wage growth in the Indian manufacturing following concerns over wage inequality post economic reforms, 1991. Using firm-level sales, expenditure, and wage data, we construct indices for market concentration, mark-up, and wage growth for 22 three-digit manufacturing industries for the period 1999–2016. Preliminary observations show falling wage shares in 18 industries, a rising …
Well-being costs of unpaid care
Using a contextualized primary time-use survey (TUS) data, we examine the gendered effects of unpaid care work on care providers’ well-being outcomes– labor supply, time allocation, life satisfaction, happiness, and health in India. A reduced form weighted composite score of health conditions and assistance need within household, and presence of care centers in the community is used as an instrument for caregiving. Using two-stage least squared i…
Friends and benefits? Endogenous rotating savings and credit associations as alternative for women’s empowerment in India
Household welfare effects of Roscas
Does bank expansion reduce domestic violence? Causal evidence from India
Wages in Imperfect Markets
This study analyzes the effects of structural market imperfections on wage growth in the Indian manufacturing following concerns over wage inequality post economic reforms, 1991. Using firm-level sales, expenditure, and wage data, we construct indices for market concentration, mark-up, and wage growth for 22 three-digit manufacturing industries for the period 1999–2016. Preliminary observations show falling wage shares in 18 industries, a rising …
Friends and benefits? Endogenous rotating savings and credit associations as alternative for women’s empowerment in India
Household welfare effects of Roscas
Well-being costs of unpaid care
Using a contextualized primary time-use survey (TUS) data, we examine the gendered effects of unpaid care work on care providers’ well-being outcomes– labor supply, time allocation, life satisfaction, happiness, and health in India. A reduced form weighted composite score of health conditions and assistance need within household, and presence of care centers in the community is used as an instrument for caregiving. Using two-stage least squared i…
Persistent Agricultural Shocks and Child Poverty
This study shows how persistent agricultural shocks in Ethiopia affect education, health and labor outcomes through a time-use study of young people aged 5-22. Leveraging five rounds of the Young Lives Study from 2002-2016, we use dynamic panel instrumental variable regressions to account for the unobserved heterogeneity and serial correlation in the estimation. Agricultural shocks significantly reduce schooling participation and time spent in sc…
Does bank expansion reduce domestic violence? Causal evidence from India
Economics (6 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Instrumental variable (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (3 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 works) · Business (2 works)