Research

Publications:

• “Community forestry and its implications for land related disputes: Evidence from India” (accepted, European Journal of Political Economy)

• “Local community composition and school provision in India”, with Nishant Chadha, Journal of Development Studies (2021):1-21.

• “Public and private schools in India”, with Nishant Chadha (accepted India Development Report 2021)

• "Examining the Role of Corporate Social Responsibility Funding in Indian Education.", with Nishant Chadha, New Philanthropy and the Disruption of Global Education (2020): 102

• "Growth, Development Spending and Inequality in Indian States - 1988 to 2012", with Nishant Chadha, Economic & Political Weekly, 54(11), 45-52

• “Decentralisation, Economic Inequality and Insurgency”, Journal of Development Studies 55.7 (2019): 1379-1397

• Ethnic Fragmentation, Public Good Provision and Inequality in India, 1988 - 2012 , with Nishant Chadha, Oxford Development Studies (2018): 1-15.

• "Caste and Class", Review of Market Integration, 8(3), 2017

Working papers :

• Financial development and Conflict Mitigation: Can finance combat conflict?”, with Sankar De (submitted)

• Women representation in school management and school quality, with Chandan Jain

• Revisiting the experiment on the role of English as a Second Language in India, with Gitanjali Sen

• Corporate social responsibility spending in India

Work in progress:

• How do households finance private education: Insights from the NSSO data, with Nishant Chadha

• Rainfall shocks and and school closure, with Nishant Chadha