Research

Work in Progress

Partisan Alignment, Insurgency and Security: Evidence from the Indian Red-corridor (Joint with Ashani Amarasinghe, University of Sydney and Yuchen Zhong, University of Melbourne). 

Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition based Evidence from an Indian State (Joint with Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University, Sujata Visaria, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Sandip Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata). NBER Working Paper Version. 

Politician Quality in the Developing World: Evidence from Indian Village Councils (Joint with Ananish Chaudhuri, University of Auckland, Vegard Iversen, Middlesex University and Francesca Refsum Jensenius, University of Oslo). Please email for the latest version.

The Long Shadow of Infrastructure Development: Long Run Effects of Railway Construction in Colonial India (Joint with William Yu, Monash University). Please email for the latest version.

Gender and Third-Party Responses to Transgressions (Joint with Lata Gangadharan, Monash University and Tarun Jain, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad). Please email for the latest version.

Taxing Unhealthy Consumption: Evidence from the Fat-tax in Kerala, India (Joint with Archana Dang, Institute of Economic Growth and Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University). Work in Progress.

On the Origins of Misogyny (Joint with Alistair Cameron, Lata Gangadharan and Paulo Santos, Monash University). Work in Progress.

Redistribution, crowding out and inequality aversion (Joint with Alistair Cameron, Lata Gangadharan and Paulo Santos, Monash University and Joseph Vecci, Gothenburg University). Work in Progress.

The Behavioral Implications of Women's Empowerment Programs (Joint with Lata Gangadharan, Monash University, Tarun Jain, Indian School of Business and Joseph Vecci, Monash University). UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2016/64.

Agent Intermediated Lending: A New Approach to Microfinance (Joint with Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University, Sujata Visaria, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Alberto Motta, University of New South Wales and Sandip Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata).  Latest Version March 2013.