Working Papers by Topic

Economic Geography and Structural Transformation 

1.  ICT Skills and Labor Market Outcomes in India: Evidence from Cell Tower Expansion, with M. Azam and M. Shahe Emran), IZA Discussion Papers 17105, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), 2024.

2. Matching Frictions and Distorted Beliefs: Evidence from a Job Fair Experiment, with Girum  Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Quinn, Working Papers 958, Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance, 2023.

3. Does Market Integration Increase Rural Land Inequality? Evidence from India. with C. Berg; B. Blankespoor and M.S. Emran. Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 10286 Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group, 2023.

4. Trucking Costs and the Margins of Internal Trade: Evidence from a Trucking Portal in India. with S. Lall and S. Sinha-Roy. Policy Research Working Paper; no. WPS 10059 Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group, 2022.

5. The Evolution of Built-up Areas in Ghana since 1975. with Marcel Fafchamps,  Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 9314 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, 2020. 

6. Temporary Trade Shocks, Spatial Reallocation, and Persistence in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa”, with S. Emran, H. Coulombe, and B. Blankespoor, Policy Research Working Paper Series 8962, 2019.

7.  Bridge to bigpush or backwash? market integration, reallocation, and productivity effects of Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh," with M. Shahe Emran, B. Blankespoor and Lu Xu, Policy Research Working Paper Series 8508, The World Bank, 2018.

8. Transport costs, comparative advantage, and agricultural development: evidence from Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh," with M. Shahe Emran, B. Blankespoor and Lu Xu,  Policy Research Working Paper Series 8509, The World Bank, 2018.

9. Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia, with Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria., Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin and Simon Quinn, SERC Discussion Papers 0225, Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE, 2017

10. Gold mining and proto-urbanization: recent evidence from Ghana, with Marcel Fafchamps and Michael Koelle, Policy Research Working Paper Series 7347, The World Bank, 2015

11. Voting with their feet? access to infrastructure and migration in Nepal, with Prem Sangraula and Yue Li, Policy Research Working Paper Series 7047, The World Bank, 2014

12. Understanding the sources of spatial disparity and convergence : evidence from Bangladesh, Policy Research Working Paper 6519, 2013.

13. Determinants of choice of migration destination, with Marcel Fafchamps,  Policy Research Working Paper 4728, 2009.

14. Migration, sorting and regional inequality : evidence from Bangladesh, Policy Research Working Paper 4616, 2008.

15. Spatial specialization and farm-nonfarm linkages, with Uwe Deichmann and Renos Vakis, Policy Research Working Paper 4611, 2008.

16. Isolation and subjective welfare: evidence from South Asia, with Marcel Fafchamps, Policy Research Working Paper 4535, 2008.

17. Subjective Welfare, Isolation and Relative Consumption, with Marcel Fafchamps, CEPR Discussion paper no.6002, 2006

18. The spatial division of labor in Nepal, with Marcel Fafchamps, Policy Research Working Paper Policy 2845, 2002.                  

Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility

1. On the Rank-Rank Model of Intergenerational Mobility: Pitfalls for Policy Evaluation, with Md Nazmul Ahsan, and M. Shahe Emran, MPRA Paper 121676, University Library of Munich, Germany, 2024.

2. Growing Up Together: Sibling Correlation, Parental Influence, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Developing Countries, with Md. Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang, and Qingyang Han, Policy Research Working Paper Series 10285, The World Bank Group, 2023.

3. Public Primary School Expansion, Gender-Based Crowding Out, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility. with Md Nazmul Ahsan, and M. Shahe Emran, Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 10418 Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group, 2023.

4. What the Mean Measures of Mobility Miss: Learning About Intergenerational Mobility from Conditional Variance, with Md Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran and Hanchen Jiang, Policy Research Working Paper Series 10074, The World Bank Group, 2022.

5. Complementarities and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia, with Md Nazmul Ahsan, and M. Shahe Emran, MPRA Paper 111125, University Library of Munich, Germany, 2021.

6. The Rural-Urban Divide and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in a Developing Country: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia. with Md Nazmul Ahsan, and M. Shahe Emran, Policy Research working paper no. WPS 9464 Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. 2020. 

7. Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from China and India. with M. Shahe Emran and Hanchen Jiang, Policy Research Working Paper Series 9250, The World Bank Group, 2020.

8. Economic Approach to Intergenerational Mobility: Measures, Methods, And Challenges in Developing Countries, with M. Shahe Emran, WIDER Working Paper 2019/98, Helsinki: UNU-WIDER, December 2019.

9. Estimating intergenerational mobility with incomplete data: coresidency and truncation bias in rank-based relative and absolute mobility measures, with M. Shahe Emran, Policy Research Working Paper Series 8414, The World Bank, 2018.

10. Distributional Effects of Corruption When Enforcement is Biased: Theory and Evidence from Bribery in Schools in Bangladesh, with M Shahe Emran and Asadul Islam, MPRA Paper 84637, University Library of Munich, Germany, 2018. 

11. When measure matters: co-resident sample selection bias in estimating intergenerational mobility in developing countries, with M. Shahe Emran and William Greene, Policy Research Working Paper Series 7608, The World Bank, 2016.

12. Admission is free only if your dad is rich! distributional effects of corruption in schools in developing countries, with M. Shahe Emran and Asadul Islam, Policy Research Working Paper 6671, 2013.

13. Gender, geography and generations: intergenerational educational mobility in post-reform India, with M. Shahe Emran, Policy Research Working Paper 6055, 2012.

14. Cultural Inheritance, Gender, and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: Evidence from a Developing Economy, with M. Shahe Emran,Working Papers 2008-12, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy, 2008.

15. Gender, generations, and nonfarm participation, with M. Shahe Emran and Misuzu Otsuka, Policy Research Working Paper Policy 3087, 2003.

Agriculture and Market Institutions 

1. Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh, with Emran, M S, Mookherjee, D, and Uddin, M H, NBER Working Paper 26615, 2020.

2. Beyond Dualism: Agricultural Productivity, Small Towns, and Structural Change in Bangladesh, with M. Shahe Emran, Policy Research Working Paper Series 8087, The World Bank, 2017

3. Agricultural productivity and non-farm employment: evidence from Bangladesh, with M. Shahe Emran, Policy Research Working Paper Series 7685, The World Bank, 2016

4. Do consumers benefit from supply chain intermediaries? evidence from a policy experiment in the edible oils market in Bangladesh. with Emran, M S, Mookherjee, D, and Uddin, M H, Policy Research working paper |no. WPS 7745 Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group, 2016.

5. Do land market restrictions hinder structural change in a rural economy? evidence from Sri Lanka, with M. Shahe Emran, Policy Research Working Paper Series 7525, The World Bank, 2015.

6. Land market restrictions, women's labor force participation, and wages in a rural economy, with M. Shahe Emran, Policy Research Working Paper Series 7524, The World Bank, 2015

7. Agricultural productivity, hired labor, wages and poverty: evidence from Bangladesh, with M. Shahe Emran, Policy Research Working Paper Series 7056, The World Bank, 2014.

8. General equilibrium effects of land market restrictions on labor market: evidence from wages in Sri Lanka, with M. Shahe Emran, Policy Research Working Paper 5461, 2010.                   

9. The extent of the market and stages of agricultural specialization, with M. Shahe Emran, Policy Research Working Paper 4534, 2008.

10. Where to sell? market facilities and agricultural marketing, with Dina Umali-Deininger, Policy Research Working Paper 4455, 2007.

11. Marketing externalities and market development, with M Shahe Emran, Policy Research Working Paper Policy 2839, 2002.

Other Papers

1.      Microfinance and moneylenders: long-run effects of MFIs on informal credit market in Bangladesh, with Claudia Berg and M. Shahe Emran, Policy Research Working Paper 6619, 2013.

2.      Estimating Import Demand Function in Developing Countries: A Structural Econometric Approach with Applications to India and Sri Lanka, with M. Shahe Emran, Working Papers 2008-10, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy, 2008.

3.      After the "License Raj": Economic Liberalization and Aggregate Private Investment in India, with M. Shahe Emran, Development and Comp Systems 0305002, EconWPA, 2003.