Publications

Economic Geography and Rural-Urban Transformation

Gold Mining and Proto-Urbanization: Recent Evidence from Ghana, (with Marcel Fafchamps and Michael Koelle), Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 17(5), pages 975-1008, 2017.
Determinants of the Choice of Migration Destination, with Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75, (3), 388-409.
Mobility Costs and Regional Inequality: Evidence from Bangladesh, Journal of Globalization and Development, 2011, 2, (1), 1-32.
Isolation and Subjective Welfare: Evidence from South Asia, with Marcel Fafchamps, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57, (4), 641-683.
Urban Proximity, Agricultural Potential and Rural Non-farm Employment: Evidence from Bangladesh, with Uwe Deichmann and Renos Vakis, World Development, 2009, 37, (3), 645-660.
Subjective welfare, isolation, and relative consumption, with Marcel Fafchamps, Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 86, (1), 43-60
Cities and Specialisation: Evidence from South Asia, with Marcel Fafchamps, Economic Journal, 2005, 115, (503), 477-504.
The spatial division of labour in Nepal, with Marcel Fafchamps, The Journal of Development Studies, 2003, 39, (6), 23-66.

Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh, (with Emran, Shahe, Dilip Mookherjee, and Helal Uddin), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming
Beyond Dualism: Agricultural Productivity, Small Towns, and Structural Change in Bangladesh, (with Emran, M. Shahe), World Development, Volume 107, July 2018, Pages 264-276.
Land Market Restrictions, Women's Labor Force Participation and Wages, (with M. Shahe Emran), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 79(5), pages 747-768, October 2017.
Agricultural productivity, hired labor, wages and poverty: evidence from Bangladesh, (with M. Shahe Emran), World Development, vol. 109(C), pages 470-482, September, 2018.
The extent of the market and stages of agricultural specialization, with M Shahe Emran, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2012, 45, (3), 1125-1153.
Market facilities and agricultural marketing: evidence from Tamil Nadu, India, with Dina Umali-Deininger, Agricultural Economics, 2008, 39, (3), 281-294.

Distributional Effects of Corruption When Enforcement is Biased: Theory and Evidence from Bribery in Schools in Bangladesh, (with M. S. Emran and Asadul Islam), Economica, 87(348), October, 2020.
When measure matters: co-resident sample selection bias in estimating intergenerational mobility in developing countries, (with M. Shahe Emran and William Greene), Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 53(3), pages 589-607, July, 2018.
Gender, Geography, and Generations: Intergenerational Education Mobility in Post Reform India, (with M.S. Emran), World Development, Vol 72, pages 362-380, 2015.
Education, Preferences and Household Welfare, (with Marcel Fafchamps), Economic Development and Cultural Change,” University of Chicago Press, vol. 63(1), pages 73 – 115, 2014.
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Rural Economy: Evidence from Nepal and Vietnam, with M. Shahe Emran, Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46, (2)

Microfinance and moneylenders: long-run effects of MFIs on informal credit market in Bangladesh, (with Claudia Berg and M. Shahe Emran), BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020.
Estimating an Import Demand Function in Developing Countries: A Structural Econometric Approach with Applications to India and Sri Lanka, with M. Shahe Emran, Review of International Economics, 2010, 18, (2), 307-319
Economic liberalization and price response of aggregate private investment: time series evidence from India, with M. Shahe Emran and Imam M. Alam, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2007, 40, (3), 914-934
Estimating the level of protection: The implications of seasonal price fluctuations, World Development, 1996, 24, (5), 929-937.
Foreign exchange rationing and the aggregate import demand function, with M. Shahe Emran, Economics Letters, 1996, 51, (3), 315-322.

From Farm to Firm:Rural-Urban Transition in Developing Countries, with N. Dudwick, K. Hull, R. Katayama and K. Simler, World Bank Publications, The World Bank, 2011.