Welcome to my webpage,
I am Associate Professor at the University of Warwick
and Research Affiliate at BREAD, CEPR and JPAL.
Fields of interest: Development economics, Labor economics, Public economics and Political economy.
Working Papers:
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China (with Marlon Seror, Yifan Zhang and Yanos Zylberberg)
Revision submitted at the American Economic Review
Entry, Exit and Candidate Selection: Experimental Evidence from India (with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Rohini Pande)
New version coming soon
Publications:
How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-wide Experiments in Belgium (with Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Maarten Luts, Johannes Spinnewijn and Teodora Tsankova)
Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming).
Costs and Benefits of Rural-Urban Migration: Evidence from India (with John Papp)
Journal of Development Economics (2020) 146, 102473 . [Latest Draft]
E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India (with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Santhosh Mathew and Rohini Pande)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2020) 12 (4): 39-72. [Latest Draft] Earlier version [NBER] Blogs: VoxDev
Short-term Migration, Rural Public Works and Urban Labor Markets: Evidence from India (with John Papp)
Journal of the European Economic Association (2020) 18(2): 927–963. [Latest Draft] Blogs: VoxEU. Media coverage: Hindustan Times Ideas for India
Labor Market Effects of Social Programs: Evidence from India's Employment Guarantee (with John Papp)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2015) 7(2): 233-263. [Latest draft] Blogs: VoxDev Media coverage: Ideas for India
Decomposing wage inequality: public and private sectors in Vietnam 1993-2006
World Bank Economic Review (2013) 27(1): 55-79. [Latest draft]
Work in Progress:
Take-up of Social Programs: Experimental Evidence from France (with Laura Castell, Marc Gurgand and Todor Tochev)
Candidate selection for a training and placement program in India (with Wiji Arulampalam, Bhaskar Chakravorty, Apurav Bhatiya, and Roland Rathelot)
Other Publications:
Social protection response to the COVID-19 crisis: options for developing countries (with François Gerard and Kate Orkin) Oxford Review of Economic Policy (forthcoming).
Estimating leakages in India’s employment guarantee (with John Papp), In Reetika Khera, editor, The battle for employment guarantee. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Estimating leakages in India's employment guarantee: an update (with John Papp)
Media Coverage: The Hindu and Indian Express
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Teaching:
Development Economics (MRes/PhD 2nd year, University of Warwick)
Development Economics (Undergraduate 2nd year, University of Warwick)
Development Economics (MPhil/PhD 2nd year, University of Oxford): State and development.
Quantitative Methods (MSc in Development Economics, University of Oxford): Treatment Effects.