48th biannual research and training workshop

About the workshop

As a part of its research capacity and academic leadership development activities, SANDEE is holding its 48th biannual research and training workshop in Nepal. SANDEE grantees and faculty advisors are expected to attend the workshop, where they will be reviewing the progress of the research under past SANDEE grants and developing an action plan for each project for the next six months.

Personalised mentoring is a key component of the workshop, where researchers will have the opportunity to interact with mentors and peers to improve the quality of their research and develop their research capacity and learn from other projects discussed at the workshop.
Shortlisted researchers, whose proposals have gone through peer review in the past several months, will present and defend their proposals for the SANDEE research grants competition.

One of the key highlights of the workshop is the SANDEE-ICIMOD Karl-Göran Mäler Memorial Lecture. The keynote speaker is Prof. Eswaran Somanathan of the Indian Statistical Institute. The lecture will be held in hybrid mode. In-person participation to this workshop is by invitation only. Details of this lecture can be found below.

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SANDEE Steering Committee Meeting

The SANDEE Steering Committee meets twice a year to discuss the past activities, and to plan future activities and collaborations. The SANDEE Steering Committee will be meeting on 14 December 2024.

SANDEE Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting

The SANDEE Advisory Committee is organised towards the end of the event to assess the overall progress, address any significant issues that the researchers are facing, and reflect on the new proposals for moving forward.

SANDEE-ICIMOD Karl-Göran Mäler Memorial Lecture (Winter 2024)

13 December 2024 | 09:15–10:45 (Nepal Standard Time)
Hybrid (ICIMOD Headquarters and Zoom)

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The impacts of heat on output, labour supply, and earnings in India

Speaker
Eswaran Somanathan
Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, India

Eswaran Somanathan is a Professor in the Economics and Planning Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi and founding head of a policy-relevant research centre (CECFEE, Centre for Research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy, and Environment) in the Institute. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University. His research is at the intersection between environmental and development issues and political economy. Some of his recent work is on household air pollution, groundwater depletion, climate impacts, and carbon pricing. He has served on various committees of the government of India on environmental policy, is a Fellow of BREAD and of SANDEE, and was a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC. He is a Co-Editor of the journal Environment and Development Economics published by Cambridge University Press.

Lecture abstract

Cross-country annual panel studies show declines in total and sectoral output at high temperatures. These declines are greater for poor or hot countries. This pattern is replicated in annual panel studies of Indian states and districts. Similar effects are seen in high-frequency (daily or sub-daily) micro data in India. A recent study of informal-sector workers in Delhi in the summer finds very high earnings losses. Taken together, these studies imply that the poor are worse affected by heat at all spatial scales. The average effects conceal large disparities that are likely to get wider as the global temperature rises. Adaptation and mitigation responses must take this into account.

Moderator
Sheetal Sekhri
Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Sheetal Sekhri is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. A PhD holder from Brown University, Sekhri has written prolifically about water stress in India combining theoretical arguments with empirical evidence. Her pioneering research has explored the causes and consequences of water stress and examined the efficacy of water conservation and sustainability strategies and set forth an agenda for scholars to pursue. As a leading economist studying water in the developing world, she has won numerous grants and published in several frontier outlets including American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and Journal of Development Economics.

This lecture series is organised by SANDEE-ICIMOD in memory of late Prof. Karl-Göran Mäler – who was one of the founders of SANDEE – and is part of the 48th Biannual research and training workshop.