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SUMMARY:Physics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The historian of physics\, Simon Schaffer\, once called meteors “eloquent stones”. They move easily between the languages of folklore\, superstition\, astrology\, literature\, astronomy etc. Yet\,\nthis very eloquence creates what Schaffer called “crises of facts” about them. Different characters and qualities attributed to them by different groups not only present conflicting images of meteors but also end up instantiating new boundaries between the different social groups such as “superstitious peasants” and “learned scientists”. To address such crises\, the late Englightenment (late 18th century) witnessed the development of more rigorous rules for the production of “facts” about meteors. Even as those eighteenth-century regimes of fact-making evolved through the twentieth century\, they could never completely self-isolate from the other\, neighbouring regimes of truths about meteors. As eloquent stones they continued to move between multiple worlds. In this paper\, we shall look at the life and work of a Hyderabadi gentleman\, Mohammad Abdur Rahman Khan\, as be studied the movements of meteors between these different worlds of truth and knowledge. \nAbout the Speaker: Projit Bihari Mukharji is a Professor and Head of the Department of History. Before joining Ashoka was a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Mukharji specializes in the history of science and has won prestigious awards such as the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pfizer Award. \nWe look forward to your active participation.
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SUMMARY:Economics Department | Weekly Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Economics invites you to their weekly seminar on Wednesday\, April 2nd  2025. \nTime: 1:40 PM to 2:50 PM \n Venue: AC 04 301 \n Speaker: Prof. Gaurav Arora \n Title: Estimation of the heterogenous credit-yield linkage and (indirect) elicitation of credit rationing practices of formal lenders in semi-arid Indian villages. \nAbstract: Agricultural credit can relax working capital constraints for lesser-endowed farmers and allow them to pursue farming with resources that are similar to the better-endowed counterparts. However\, evidence points to skewed credit access that reflects pre-existing socio-economic gaps among producers. Equilibrium credit rationing in the presence of asymmetric information (whereby lenders do not fully observe borrower efforts or default risk) provides an economic channel for disproportionate credit access and favorable production outcomes for better-endowed farmers. In India\, commercial banks lead rural credit provision with a credit-share of 77% in 2023; relative to cooperatives and regional rural banks each with ˜10% credit-shares. A dominant credit share of commercial banks points to the likelihood of excess credit demand through rationing practices which can partly explain unequal production impacts. \nHere we employ quantile regression models in conjunction with propensity score matching to estimate the heterogeneous impact of agricultural credit on crop yield quantiles for a representative sample of sorghum growers in semi-arid and tropical villages of India. We find that formal credit attainment is skewed in favour of educated\, upper caste\, asset-rich\, land-owning\, and wealthier households with better-quality soils. Farmers who borrowed formal credit experienced higher yields relative to the no-credit scenario but the impact was concentrated in the upper yield quantiles. Second\, we utilise the within-sample variation in credit-yield linkage to elicit the odds of credit rationing for borrowing households. Employing a state-contingent production technology to interpret the odds of credit rationing in terms of farmers’ adaptive capacity under uncertainty. In the process\, we extend the “statistical discrimination” result in equilibrium credit provision by formal lenders (Carter 1988) to the state-contingent technology for following borrower-groups: (1) small/large farmers;  (2) owner/renter farmers; (3) soil quality; and (4) weather variability.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/economics-department-weekly-seminars/
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