Date: 29th March 2023,
Day - Wednesday Time - 12:00 pm (IST)
Speaker: Professor Jeemol Unni, Ph.D.,
Programme Chair - MA Economics, AMSOM Ahmedabad University.
Profile: Jeemol Unni is a Professor of Economics at Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad. She is Chair, the Masters of Arts in Economics Programme. Before joining Ahmedabad University she was the Director of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) and RBI Chair Professor of Economics at IRMA. Currently Elected President, 63rd Labour Economics Conference, Indian Society of Labour Economics, 2023. She is currently a member of the 'Expert Group on leveraging data for monitoring, policy, and planning' constituted by the Niti Aayog in November 2022. She was a member of the Standing Committee on Economic Statistics constituted by the Government of India.
To read more about her profile: https://ahduni.edu.in/academics/schools-centres/amrut-mody-school-of-management/faculty/jeemol-unni/
Abstract :
Patterns of women’s work participation in Indian States and the relation between work and education are discussed. Higher secondary education is a threshold required for entry into good jobs. We observe differences in levels of education and informality in India and China. While increasing returns to private investments in higher levels of education exist in India and China, education appears to be a good proxy for skill and ability in China, but not so in India.
Ahmedabad University's MA Economics Programme aims to prepare students who are theoretically sound and apply the concepts to the real world. As part of our outreach for the MA Programme, we will discuss India's education system from the lens of experimental economics.
Webinar Will be Followed By Q&A Session
