PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Party Organizations and Complementary Political Control (with Ajay Shenoy), accepted at Journal of the European Economic Association VoxDev Blog
The Effects of Adopting a Value Added Tax on Firms (with David Agrawal), accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics Ideas for India Blog International Growth Centre Blog
The Power of Lakshmi: Monetary Incentives for Raising a Girl (Online Appendix) (with Nabaneeta Biswas and Christopher Cornwell), Journal of Human Resources, 60(4): 1253-1283 Ideas for India Blog (Hindi Version)
Why Guarantee Employment? Evidence from a Large Indian Public-Works Program (Online Appendix), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 72(4): 2031-2067, 2024 Ideas for India Blog
De Jure versus De Facto Transparency: Corruption in Local Public Office in India (with Dahyeon Jeong and Ajay Shenoy), Journal of Public Economics, 221: 104855, 2023 Ideas for India Blog
The Dynamic Electoral Returns of a Large Anti-Poverty Program (Online Appendix), Review of Economics and Statistics, 103(5): 803-817, 2021
Remember When It Rained: Schooling Responses to Shocks in India, World Development, 126, 2020
It's a Boy! Women and Decision-Making Benefits from a Son in India, World Development, 104: 326-335, 2018
Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development, Journal of Development Economics, 124: 120-141, 2017 (with Gaurav Khanna)(Online Appendix) Ideas for India Blog
Fighting Maoist Violence with Promises: Evidence from India's Employment Guarantee Scheme, Economics of Peace and Security Journal, , 9(1): 30-36, 2014 (with Gaurav Khanna) (PDF Version)
Public-Works Programs in Developing Countries Have the Potential to Reduce Poverty, IZA World of Labor, May 2014
Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation in India, Journal of Development Studies, 48(1): 151-163, 2012
Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants, Economics Letters, 98(3): 235-239, 2008 (with Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, and Klaus F. Zimmermann)
Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants, International Migration Review, 41(3): 769-781, 2007 (with Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann)
WORKING PAPERS
The Doubly Invisible Disamenity: Forced Labor in Developing Country Labor Markets (with David Okech, Hui Yi, Lydia Aletradis)
Policy or Perception? Female Political Representation and the Survival of Girls in India (with Nabaneeta Biswas, Christopher Cornwell)
Arsenic Water: How Health Solutions Matter for Well-Being (with Shyamal Chowdhury and Klaus F. Zimmermann)
WORK IN PROGRESS
Anticipating Risk: Migration, Information, and Young Workers' Job Choices (with David Okech, Hui Yi)
The Changing Face of India's Parliament, 1950-2024 (with Nabaneeta Biswas, Christopher Cornwell)
How Common are Romeos and Juliets? Evidence from Indian Court Cases (with Aditi Choudhary)
Person, Party or Platform? Constituency Loyalty Across Indonesia's Presidential Transition (with Runan Zhang)
Tax Competition in India (with David Agrawal)
Drawing the Line: When Does Exploitation Become Forced Labor? (with David Okech, Anna Cody, Hui Yi)
PERMANENT WORKING PAPERS
Demographic Challenges Facing the Elderly in Sub-Saharan Africa (with David Lam and Rebecca Thornton)
Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process (with Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann), IZA Discussion Paper No. 2350