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Pushkar Maitra
Researcher at Monash University
Publications - 162
Citations - 2676
Pushkar Maitra is an academic researcher from Monash University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Child mortality. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 158 publications receiving 2374 citations. Previous affiliations of Pushkar Maitra include Monash University, Clayton campus.
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Health shocks and consumption smoothing in rural households: Does microcredit have a role to play?
Asadul Islam,Pushkar Maitra +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of health shocks on household consumption and how access to micro-credit affects households' response to such shocks were analyzed using a large panel data set from rural Bangladesh.
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Parental bargaining, health inputs and child mortality in India.
TL;DR: The estimation results show that a women's education has a stronger effect on health care usage relative to that of her husband and a woman's control over household resources has a significant effect onhealth care usage.
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The effect of transfers on household expenditure patterns and poverty in South Africa
Pushkar Maitra,Ranjan Ray +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the behavioural and welfare impacts of private and public transfers on household level unit record data from South Africa and found that the marginal impact on expenditures are different for public pension received, private transfer received and other resources flowing into the household.
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The joint estimation of child participation in schooling and employment: comparative evidence from three continents
Pushkar Maitra,Ranjan Ray +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a multinomial logit estimation procedure that analyses the participation and non-participation of children in schooling and in employment and, in particular, allows the possibility that a child combines schooling with employment or does neither.
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Social Learning and Norms in a Public Goods Experiment with Inter-Generational Advice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt an intergenerational approach to the public goods game where one generation of subjects leave advice for the succeeding generation via free form messages and find that when advice is common knowledge it generates a process of social learning and norm creation that leads to high contributions over time and also mitigates problems of free riding.