kunal sen

@kunalsen5

Director of @UNUWIDER. Professor of Development Economics @GlobalDevInst

Helsinki, Finland kunalsen.org.uk Joined May 2012

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kunal sen @kunalsen5 Aug 26, 2025

UNU WIDER : Kunal Sen gives the 2025 Mahbub-ul-Haq Memorial Lecture at HDCA wider.unu.edu/event/kunal-se…

www.wider.unu.edu Kunal Sen gives the 2025 Mahbub-ul-Haq Memorial Lecture at HDCA Kunal Sen gives the 2025 Mahbub Ul Haq Lecture at the 2025

kunal sen @kunalsen5 Aug 12, 2025

Call for Papers: Conference on the Future of Development Economics - Deadline: Sept 30th. blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/call-for-paper…

blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk Call for Papers: Conference on the Future of Development Economics - Global Development Institute... December 11-12, 2025, University of Manchester, UK. With support from The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute Journal of Development Studies Conference Fund Keynote speakers: Ravi...

kunal sen @kunalsen5 May 1, 2025

Delighted to be a Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society. Royal Economic Society announces Founding Fellows - Royal Economic Society res.org.uk/the-royal-econ…

res.org.uk The Royal Economic Society announces Founding Fellows - Royal Economic Society The Royal Economic Society (RES) is delighted to announce the appointment of our founding Fellows. We warmly congratulate our new Fellows.

kunal sen @kunalsen5 Feb 19, 2025

India witnessed a significant decline in wage inequality in the 2000s. Minimum wages contributed a quarter of this decline. @UNUWIDER

Ideas for India @Ideas4India Feb 19, 2025

An article by @saloni_econ, @kanmahajan & @kunalsen5 examines the role of ⬆️ minimum wages in ⬇️ wage inequality in India over the past two decades. It finds that minimum wage increases account for 26% of the decline & had no adverse effects on employment:
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kunal sen @kunalsen5 Jan 23, 2025

How does teamwork affect dishonest behaviour among politicians? @UNU-WIDER Working Paper : Dishonesty concessions in teams wider.unu.edu/publication/di…

www.wider.unu.edu UNU-WIDER : Working Paper : Dishonesty concessions in teams Economic theory predicts that dishonesty thrives in secrecy. Yet, team-based decisions are ubiquitous in public policy-making. How does teamwork influence the tendency for self-dealings when public...