Current research

Overview

My current research focuses on three areas: the implicit costs to households in variety in consumption of poor transport links within developing countries; analysis of linked administrative data on firms in Africa and the impact of national resources on incentives for good governance. The research relies on innovations in the use of large-scale data: this ranges from longitudinal surveys, purpose-designed surveys that imitate quasi-natural experiments to scraping data from the Internet and the use of satellite measurements of economic activity as well as matching administrative data sets.

Working Papers

Dhillon, A., M. Patnam, P.Krishnan and C.Perroni. 2016, “Electoral Accountability and the Natural Resource Curse: Theory and Evidence from India”, CEPR WP DP11377.

covered at: Voxeu : http://voxeu.org/article/electoral-accountability-and-natural-resource-curse, November 2016 covered at: Ideas for India: http://www.ideasforindia.in/article.aspx?article_id=1587, 2 March, 2016.

Ongoing work

“Fading Choice: Transport Costs and Variety in Consumer Goods”, with J.-W. Gunning and Andualem Mengistae.

“Risk-sharing, Migration and Subjective Well-being: Evidence from India”, with S.Dercon and S. Krutikova.