Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals 

1. Weather Shocks, Domestic Migration and Human Capital (with Papiya Majumdar, Sumit Majumdar and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay), Journal of Quantitative Economics (forthcoming) [link].

2. Women’s Inheritance Rights Reforms and Impact on Women Empowerment: Evidence from India (with Minali Grover), Review of Economics of the Household (forthcoming).[link][wp]

3. International migration and dietary diversity of left-behind households: evidence from India, (with Pooja Batra), Food Security, 2025, 17, 543-557. [link][wp]

4. Impact of three-point rule change on competitive balance in football: a synthetic control method approach, Applied Economics, 2025, 57(55), 9264-9274. [link][wp]

5. Strategic Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR) Certification and Endogenous Market Structure (with Siddhartha Rastogi), The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2024, 24(1), 419-433. [link] [wp]

6. Informality, Education-Occupation Mismatch, and Wages: Evidence from India (with Shweta Bahl), Applied Economics, 2024, 56(19), 2260-2294. [link] [wp]

7. Heterogeneity among migrants, education-occupation mis-match and returns to education: Evidence from India (with Shweta Bahl), Regional Studies, 2024, 57(9), 1851-1865. [link][wp].

8. Returns to Formal and Informal Vocational Education and Training in India (with Shweta Bahl and Vasavi Bhatt), International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (7), 1620-1645 [link].

9. COVID-19 Pandemic, Lockdown and the Indian Labour Market: Evidence from Periodic Labour Force Survey 2018–2019 (with Vasavi Bhatt and Shweta Bahl), The Indian Economic Journal, 2021, 69 (4),  750-769 [link][wp]

10. Education-occupation mismatch and dispersion in returns to education: Evidence from India (with Shweta Bahl (Grover)), Social Indicators Research, 2021, 153, 251–298 [link] [wp]. 

11. Regional Patterns and Determinants of Commuting Between Rural and Urban India (with Vasavi Bhatt and S Chandrasekhar), Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 1041–1063 [link][wp]

12. Misleading Advertising in Mixed Markets: Consumer-orientation and welfare outcomes, International Journal of Economics of Business, 2020, 27(2), 291-302.[link] [wp]

13. Commuting between rural and urban areas: evidence from India, Built Environment ,2019, 45(4), 493-506 .[link] [wp]

14. Nash Equilibrium in Tax and Public Investment Competition, (with Rupayan Pal), International Review of Economics and Finance , 2019, 62, 106-120. [link] [wp]

15. Preferences over Public Good, Political Delegation and Leadership in Tax Competition, (with Rupayan Pal), Public Finance Review, 2019, 47(4), 718-746. [link] [wp]

16. Pathways from agriculture-to-nutrition in India: Implications for Sustainable Development Goals, (with Mousumi Das and Suresh Babu), Food Security. 2018, 10(6), 1561-1576.[link] [wp]

17. A note on Stackelberg equilibrium in duopoly: Strategic use of corporate social responsibility, Economics Bulletin, 2018, 38(4), 1720-1726. [link] [wp]

18. Migrant networks in urban labour market: Evidence from India, (with Mousumi Das), Journal of Development Studies, 2017. [link]

19. Competition for Foreign Capital under Asymmetric Revenue-Orientation, (with Rupayan Pal), Indian Economic Review (Special Volume on Applied Game Theory and Policy), 2016, 51(1-2), 105-116. [link]

20. Urban Proximity and Spatial Pattern of Land Use and Development in Rural India. Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(11), 1593-1611. [link]

21. Impact of Commuting by Workers on Household Dietary Diversity in Rural India, (with S Chandrasekhar), Food Policy, 2016, 59, 34-43. [link] 

22. Short-term Migration and Consumption Expenditure of Households in Rural India, (with S Chandrasekhar and Mousumi Das), Oxford Development Studies, 2015, 43(2), 105-122.  [link]

23. Urbanization and Spatial Patterns of Internal Migration in India, (with  S Chandrasekhar),  Spatial Demography, 2015, 3(2), 63-89. [link][wp]

24. Growth of the Urban Shadow, Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities and Commuting by Workers in Rural and Urban India, (with S Chandrasekhar), World Development, 2014, 61, 154-166.  [link][link]

25. Endogenizing governments’ objectives in tax competition, (with Rupayan Pal), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2013, 43(4), 570-578.  [link]