TY - BOOK AU - Bandyopadhyay,Sutirtha TI - Essays on applied welfare economics U1 - 330.1556 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New Delhi PB - Indian Statistical Institute KW - Welfare Economics KW - Gender and Well-Being KW - Cost of Living Index KW - Well-Being Measures N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indian Statistical Institute, 2017; Introduction and Main Result -- Does Heterogeneity Affect the Group Cost of Living Index -- Border Prices, Pass-Through and Welfare: Palm Oil in India -- Poverty, Gender and Well-Being: A Study on the Slum Population in Delhi; Guided by Prof. Bharat Ramaswami N2 - In this thesis, we explain and analyze three important and basic issues in applied welfare economics in three different chapters. Although all these three chapters pose new questions in new contexts and use different methodologies, the common theme of all these three chapters is welfare evaluation and comparing change in welfare across groups UR - http://dspace.isical.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/10263/7091 ER -