Publications:
Can Information about Jobs Improve the Effectiveness of Vocational Training? Experimental Evidence from India (with Wiji Arulampalam, Bhaskar Chakravorty, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, and Roland Rathelot) [IZA] [Latest Draft] Journal of Development Economics (2024) 169, 103273 .
Urban Public Works in Spatial Equilibrium: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (with Simon Fanklin, Girum Abebe and Carolina Mejia-Mantilla) American Economic Review (2024) 113, 1382-1414 . [Latest Draft] Blogs: AEA Research Highlights VoxDev
Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on India’s Rural Youth: Evidence from a Panel Survey and an Experiment (with Bhaskar Chakravorty, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Maximilian Lohnert, Poonam Panda, and Roland Rathelot) World Development (2023) 118, 106242 . [Latest Draft]
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China (with Marlon Seror, Yifan Zhang and Yanos Zylberberg) American Economic Review (2022) 112 (6): 1885-1914 [Latest Draft] Blog: VoxDev
How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-wide Experiments in Belgium (with Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Johannes Spinnewijn, Teodora Tsankova and Maarten Luts) Journal of Political Economy (2021) 129 (5): 1425-1463 . [Latest Draft] Blogs: VoxEU
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]