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Working Papers:

• "Employment Protection Legislation and Informality: Theory and Evidence from India” with Gaurav Chiplunkar and Vidhya Soundararajan (R&R, JPE Micro)

• "Place-Based Policies and Migration: Evidence from India" with Ama Baafra Abeberese and Radhika Menon

• "Indentured Migration, Caste and Electoral Competition in Colonial India" with Ashish Aggarwal and Pavithra Suryanarayan

Publications/Forthcoming Papers:

• "India’s Services Sector Growth: The Impact of Services Trade on Non-tradable Services." (with Besart Avdiu, Karan Bagavathinathan, and Gaurav Nayyar) India Policy Forum 2022, July 2023

• "Democracy and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Indonesia" (with Ama Baafra Abeberese, Prabhat Barnwal, and Priya Mukherjee)  Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2023

  • • VoxDev

• “Creditor Rights, Threat of Liquidation, and Labor-Capital Choice of Firms.” (with Shashwat Alok and Vasudha Nukala) Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 65, number 4, November 2022

  • Oxford Business Law Blog; Online Appendix

• "Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India" (with Duong Le) Journal of Public Economics, vol. 214, October 2022, 104725

  • Ideas for India; VoxDev

• "Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India: Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program .” (with David Blakeslee, Ram Fishman, and Samreen Malik) World Bank Economic Review, vol. 36, Issue 2, May 2022

  • • Ideas for India; UNIDO IAP Blog

• "In the Heat of the Moment: Economic and Non-Economic Drivers of the Weather-Crime Relationship" (with David Blakeslee, Ram Fishman, Deepak Malghan, Samreen Malik) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 192, pp. 832-856, December 2021

  • • Media coverage: Haaretz

• "Interventions to Promote Technology Adoption in Firms: A Systematic Review" (with David Alfaro-Serrano, Tanay Balantrapu, Ana Goicoechea, and Eric Verhoogen) Campbell Systematic Reviews, vol. 17, no. 4, Dec. 2021.

  • • Plain Language Summary

• "Workfare programs and children's meals intake: Evidence from India" (with Karan Singh Bagavathinathan) Food Policy, vol. 95, August 2020

• "An Unintended Consequence of Place-Based Policies: A Fall in Informality" (with Ama Baafra Abeberese) Economics Letters, vol. 176, pp. 23-27, March 2019

• “Location-based tax incentives: Evidence from India.” Journal of Public Economics, vol. 156, pp. 101-120, December 2017

  • • Web Appendix; Ideas for India

• “Labor regulations and contract labor use: Evidence from Indian firms.” Journal of Development Economics, vol. 114, pp. 224–232, May 2015

• •     Coverage: Economic Survey of India

Works in progress:

• "Monetary Policy and Firm Exports: Micro-level Evidence from the Indian Demonetization" (with Ryan Kim and Pravin Krishna)

• "How Do Managers' Beliefs  about New Technologies Evolve? Informational Interventions and the Adoption of Energy-Efficient Stitching Motors in Bangladesh" (joint with Gaurav Nayyar, Siddharth Sharma, and Eric Verhoogen)