Research

Research: Publications and work in progress     

 WORKING PAPERS

Climate Change and Political Participation: Evidence from India. With Amrit Amirapu and Juan Pablo Rud. NEW

• We talk about this paper in  ProMarket

• Awarded the IZA “Innovative Research in the Economics of Climate Change” (IRECC) Award 2023

Personalized Information Provision and the Take-Up of Emergency Government Benefits: Experimental Evidence from India.  Joint with Amrit Amirapu, Bansi Malde, Anirban Mitra, Debayan Pakashi and Zaki Wahhaj. NEW

• In Ideas for India (I4I)

Demand for Institutions and Opportunistic Behavior: Experimental Evidence.  Joint with Antonio Cabrales, Roberto Hernán-Gonzalez and Praveen Kujal. NEW

PUBLICATIONS 

To view and download the papers, please visit my RePEc profile.

• Leader Identity and Coordination. With Bhalotra, S., Iyer, L. and Vecci, J.    Review of Economics and Statistics.  (2023) 105 (1): 175–189. Web appendix

• Religion and Abortion. The Role of Politician Identity. With Sonia Bhalotra and Lakshmi Iyer.  Journal of Development Economics. (2021) 153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102746

• Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success? With Sonia Bhalotra and Lakshmi Iyer.  The Economic Journal. 128(613) August 2018.

• "Trust and Trustworthiness under Information Asymmetry and Ambiguity", joint with Hernan, R. and Kujal, P.  Economics Letters. 147 (168-170). October 2016.

• "Information Asymmetry and Deception", joint with Hernan, R. and Kujal, P.  Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience July 2015.

• "Citizenship, Fertility and Parental Investments", joint with Avitabile, C. and Masella, P.  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.6(4), 35-65, October 2014.

• "Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes:  Evidence from India". Joint with Cassan, G., Bhalotra, S. and Iyer, L.  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol 104(c),pp 4-17, 2014.

•  Health and the Political Agency of Women Joint with Sonia Bhalotra. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.Vol 6(2), pp 164-97, May 2014.  

• The Effect of Birthright Citizenship on Parental Integration Outcomes. Joint with Ciro Avitabile and Paolo Masella. The Journal of Law and Economics. Vol 56 No 3 (August 2013) pp777-810.

• Education, Language and Identity  Joint with  Masella, P.  The Economic Journal, 123(570), F332-F357, August 2013.

•  Are Female Leaders Good for Education? Evidence from India.   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4(1), 212-44, January 2012.

• Women in Politics. Evidence from the Indian States.  Journal of Public Economics, 95(2011), pp 664-690.

• Compulsory Language Educational Policies and Identity Formation(with Aspachs, O., Costa-Font, J. and Masella, P.)  Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol .6, No.2-3:  434-444. April-May 2008.

BOOK CHAPTERS 

•  ‘Education, language and national identity: Evidence from education reform in Catalonia’ (2023) with Paolo Masella, in Rohner, D. and Zhuravskaya, E. (eds) Nation Building Big Lessons from Successes and Failures. CEPR Press, pp. 123-129. Available at: https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/nation-building-big-lessons-successes-and-failures.   NEW

• “Benefits and Costs of the Gender Equality Targets for the post-2015 Development Agenda”. In Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

OTHER ARTICLES 

•  “The Effect of Female Representation on Policy in Indian Politics”. STICERD Review 2004.

•    “Women’s Education and Women’s Political Participation”. With Lakshmi Iyer and Sonia Bhalotra. Background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report. UNESCO. 2013.

• · Benefits and costs of the gender equality targets for the post-2015 Development Agenda. Gender Equality Assessment Paper 2015. Copenhagen Consensus Center.

•   “El Uso del Tiempo en el Mundo Académico: Diferencias de Género 2018”. With Manuel Bagues and Natalia Zinovyeva. Cosme Newsletter 2018.

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Politician Identity and Religious Conflict in India. With Sonia Bhalotra and Lakshmi Iyer

• Elections and Prosocial Behaviour. With Antonio Cabrales, Praveen Kujal and Roberto Hernán.

• The Effects of Weather at Birth on Mental Health and Economic Outcomes. Evidence from the UK. With Bhalotra, S. and Gomes, J.

• Education and Financial Decisions. Evidence from Spain.

• Electronic Voting Machines and Electoral Outcomes in India. With Sonia Bhalotra, Guilhem Cassan and Samistha Pal.

• Birthright Citizenship and Education-Do Immigrant Children Need a Passport to Thrive. Joint with C. Sajons.