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Ciorciari comments on India-Middle East rail link announcement

Sep 12, 2023

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Joe Biden and other G20 leaders announced plans to construct a rail and shipping corridor that would link India with the Middle East and Europe. The Ford School's John Ciorciari, whose research focuse...

Ciorciari comments on India-Middle East rail link announcement

In the Media

Ciorciari: US relationship with India a "counterbalance" to China

Jun 24, 2023 ARD Germany

John Ciorciari, ARD Germany: And this commitment would suit the United States just fine. Because the relationship with the other big "player" in the region, China, has recently gotten worse and worse. John Ciorciari, professor of international politi...

Ciorciari: US relationship with India a "counterbalance" to China

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Ciorciari discusses Indian Prime Minister Modi's visit to the US

Jun 15, 2023

John Ciorciari, associate dean for research and policy engagement at the Ford School of Public Policy and director of the Ford School's International Policy Center and Weiser Diplomacy Center, comments on the relevance of Indian Prime Minister Narend...

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Indian opposition leader imprisoned after defamation conviction: U-M experts can discuss

Mar 29, 2023

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has been sentenced to two years in prison and lost his parliamentary seat after a court found him guilty of defamation over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surname in 2019. University of Michig...

Info session: 2022 BA Global Engagement Seminar

Publication

Neggers looks at effects of COVID lockdowns on Indian migrant workers

May 5, 2021

As India endures a drastic increase in COVID-19 cases, a new study sheds light on how previous lockdowns have affected some of the poorest workers in the country. A Yale University survey that tracked 5,000 migrants across north and central India f...

Neggers looks at effects of COVID lockdowns on Indian migrant workers

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Yusuf Neggers discusses latest research with VoxDev

May 31, 2019

Ensuring voters are well informed about candidates’ backgrounds is a hot topic of late, and in India that focus is on past criminality. There, upwards of nine percent of legislators have faced criminal charges, numbing people to the potential ramific...

Yusuf Neggers discusses latest research with VoxDev

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Parthasarathy receives IRWG funding to investigate gender, caste and innovation in India

Jan 20, 2016

Professor Shobita Parthasarathy has received a 2016 seed grant from Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), which supports individual research activities and collaborative projects in the field of women, gender, and sexuality. A...

Weiser Diplomacy Center Series

Sexual Violence and (In)Security in South Asia: Lessons from Bangladesh, Balochistan, and Beyond

Mar 15, 2023, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

This panel will analyze historical and contemporary instances of sexual violence by state and non-state actors amid armed conflict in South Asia, and discuss some policy and diplomacy tools for violence prevention.

Sexual Violence and (In)Security in South Asia: Lessons from Bangladesh, Balochistan, and Beyond

Economic Development Seminar

Human Capital in the Presence of Child Labor

Oct 7, 2021, 4:00-5:20 pm EDT

Policies that improve early life human capital are a promising tool to alter disadvantaged children’s lifelong trajectories. Yet, in many low-income countries, children and their parents face tradeoffs between schooling and productive work.

Economic Development Seminar

Production bottleneck effects and role of market power: Evidence from India's dereservation reform

Oct 4, 2018, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

3240 Weill Hall

Vybhavi Balasundharam, PhD Talk Production bottleneck effects and the role of market power: Evidence from India's dereservation reform

LRCCS Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series/China’s Economic Reform in the Wake of the 19th Party Congress

Dec 5, 2017, 4:00-5:30 pm EST

Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Weill Hall

Working papers

Learning, salience, and voting: Evidence from criminal politicians in India

March 1, 2026

Siddharth George (National University of Singapore), Yusuf Neggers (University of Michigan), Sarika Gupta (World Bank)

Abstract: We study how voters process information through two experiments around Indian elections. In a large-scale experiment, we show that providing voters information about candidates' criminal charges increases votes for clean candidates and redu...

Working papers

Updating the state: Information acquisition costs and social protection delivery

September 1, 2023

Eric Dodge (IDinsight), Yusuf Neggers (University of Michigan), Rohini Pande (Yale University), Charity Troyer Moore (Yale University)

Abstract: Digital payment systems are frequently described as a means of expanding state capacity in lower-income countries; however, program performance gains may be weakened if digitization reduces (or leaves unchanged) program information availabl...

Publications

Indian female migrants face greater barriers to post-Covid recovery than males: Evidence from a panel study

November 1, 2022

Jenna Allard (Yale University), Maulik Jagnani (Tufts University), Yusuf Neggers (University of Michigan), Rohini Pande (Yale University), Simone Schaner (Center for Economic and Social Research), Charity Troyer Moore (Yale University)

Background: India's abrupt nationwide Covid−19 lockdown internally displaced millions of migrant workers, who returned to distant rural homes. Documenting their labour market reintegration is a critical aspect of understanding the economic costs of t...