Shankha Chakraborty
Biographic Data
| ID | 5731434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shankha Chakraborty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shankha |
| FAMILY NAME | Chakraborty |
| SIGNATURE | CHAKRABORTY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6732-1621 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Female Labor Force Participation in Bangladesh and Neighboring Indian States
Introduction to the Special Issue
Life expectancy across countries
Contraception and the Demographic Transition
Inspired by the historical English experience, we modify the Beckerian paradigm of fertility by incorporating costly, societal influence on contraception. Heterogeneous, generationally‐linked households choose between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ contraception. The modern has a higher fixed but lower variable cost of averting childbirths. Initially the rich adopt the modern, which unleashes society‐wide diffusion. Eventually everyone switches, lowe…
Childhood disease and the precautionary demand for children
Endogenous lifetime and economic growth
Agency Costs in Dynamic Economic Models
We consider an overlapping generations economy where capital is produced from bank loans under stochastic constant returns to scale, and subject to idiosyncratic shocks whose realisations are costly to verify. Our formulation differs from earlier work in permitting investment projects to be infinitely divisible and private agency costs to be convex. If there are external economies to financial intermediation, then deviations from steady‐state out…
Childhood disease and the precautionary demand for children
Contraception and the Demographic Transition
Inspired by the historical English experience, we modify the Beckerian paradigm of fertility by incorporating costly, societal influence on contraception. Heterogeneous, generationally‐linked households choose between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ contraception. The modern has a higher fixed but lower variable cost of averting childbirths. Initially the rich adopt the modern, which unleashes society‐wide diffusion. Eventually everyone switches, lowe…
Agency Costs in Dynamic Economic Models
We consider an overlapping generations economy where capital is produced from bank loans under stochastic constant returns to scale, and subject to idiosyncratic shocks whose realisations are costly to verify. Our formulation differs from earlier work in permitting investment projects to be infinitely divisible and private agency costs to be convex. If there are external economies to financial intermediation, then deviations from steady‐state out…
Endogenous lifetime and economic growth
Childhood disease and the precautionary demand for children
Contraception and the Demographic Transition
Inspired by the historical English experience, we modify the Beckerian paradigm of fertility by incorporating costly, societal influence on contraception. Heterogeneous, generationally‐linked households choose between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ contraception. The modern has a higher fixed but lower variable cost of averting childbirths. Initially the rich adopt the modern, which unleashes society‐wide diffusion. Eventually everyone switches, lowe…
Life expectancy across countries
Female Labor Force Participation in Bangladesh and Neighboring Indian States
Introduction to the Special Issue
Economics (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (2 works)