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Kaushik Basu
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 331
Citations - 13456
Kaushik Basu is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Wage. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 323 publications receiving 13030 citations. Previous affiliations of Kaushik Basu include Brookings Institution & Harvard University.
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The intriguing relation between adult minimum wage and child labor
TL;DR: The authors predicts the incidence of child labor and shows that child labor may fall, or rise, as the adult minimum wage is raised, for appropriate parametric configurations, and that child labour may fall or rise with the increase in the minimum wage.
A Model of Household Behavior with Endogenously-determined Balance of Power
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define a household equilibrium, examining its game-theoretic properties and drawing out its testable implications for female labor supply, showing that the household equilibrium can be inefficient and children will be least likely to work in a household where power is evenly balanced.
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Why are so many goods priced to end in nine? And why this practice hurts the producers
TL;DR: In this paper, the widespread phenomenon of goods being priced at D dollars and 99 cents is explained without abandoning the assumption of full rationality; and it is shown that as a consequence of such pricing it is the producers who are generally worse off.
Book
Beyond the Invisible Hand: Groundwork for a New Economics
TL;DR: Basu as discussed by the authors argues that mainstream economics and its conservative popularizers have misrepresented Smith's insight and hampered our understanding of how economies function, why some economies fail and some succeed, and what the nature and role of state intervention might be.