Soundararajan, Vidhya
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Soundararajan, Vidhya
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Vidhya Soundararajan
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Vidhya Soundararajan
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Vidhya is an applied microeconomist whose work primarily examines the impact of labour market institutions and regulations on employment, wages, and productivity in low-wage labour markets. Improving overall employment levels and worker welfare, and understanding and alleviating impediments to workplace productivity growth are running threads in her research. Another strand of Vidhya's work examines the political economy of institutions and program implementation in developing countries. Her work employs both reduced-form and semi-structural econometric approaches focussing on causal estimations, and uses observational data at the firm or household level. Prior to her PhD, Vidhya worked at various policy organizations such as the World Bank, the International Food Policy Research Institute, and the Planning Commission of India, where her work centered on understanding agricultural value chains and evaluating rural development programs in India.
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Issue Date | Title | Sub-Title | Author(s) | Journal Name | Volume Number | Issue Number | Pages | |
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1 | 2021 | Contract employment as a worker discipline device | - | Basu, Arnab K ; Chau, Nancy H ; Soundararajan, Vidhya | Journal of Development Economics | Vol.149 | ||
2 | 2020 | Estimating small-area population density in Sri Lanka using surveys and Geo-spatial data | - | Soundararajan, Vidhya ; Engstrom, Ryan ; Newhouse, David | PLoS One | Vol.15 | Iss.8 | |
3 | 2019 | Heterogeneous effects of imperfectly enforced minimum wages in low-wage labor markets | - | Soundararajan, Vidhya | Journal of Development Economics | Vol.140 | 355-374p. | |
4 | 2021 | Political activism as a determinant of strategic transfers: Evidence from an indian public works program | - | Chau, Nancy H ; Liu, Yanyan ; Soundararajan, Vidhya | European Economic Review | Vol.132 | ||
5 | 2016 | Regional Inequality Compared: The Cases of India and Brazil | - | Rodgers, Gerry ; Soundararajan, Vidhya ; Barbosa, Alexandre de Freitas | Indian Journal of Economics | Vol.XCVI | Iss.383 | 657-679p. |
6 | 2019 | Wage fairness in a subcontracted labor market | - | Chau, Nancy H ; Soundararajan, Vidhya ; Basu, Arnab | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization | Vol.168 | 24-42p. |