Publications
Journal Articles
Religion, Gender and Childhood Stunting in sub-Saharan Africa (with Framjee Hathy), Nature Scientific Reports, Accepted.
Discriminatory Social Norms and Early Childhood Development (with Ashwini Deshpande). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 238 (2025), 107245
From MDGs to SDGs: Understanding Progress in Child Stunting in Asia (with M Niaz Asadullah), The Asian Development Review, Vol. 42, No. 03, pp. 217-252 (2025).
The Historical Sources of Language Policy (with David D. Laitin), Journal of Politics, 87(3), 967-981. . https://doi.org/10.1086/732951
Caste Disparities and Affirmative Action in India, (with Ashwini Deshpande). Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 40(3), 2024, 630-640.
The Hidden Divide: A Note on the Significance of Within-India Stunting Disparities (with Ashwini Deshpande), Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy (2024): 1-9.
Entrepreneurship Trainings and Human Capital Endowment: When Learning From External Sources Does (Not) Increase Performance (with Egbert Amoncio and Cornelia Storz), Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 2024.
Education, Child Health, and Mining: Evidence from Papua New Guinea (with Pauline Khoo and Kaveendra Vasuthevan). Asia Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, Special theme: Sustainable development challenges in the Pacific small island developing States: The role of regional cooperation. Vol. 31, No. 1, May 2024.
Covid-19 and caste inequalities in India: The critical role of social identity in pandemic-induced job losses (with Ashwini Deshpande). Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. June 2023.
The Imperium of the Colonial Tongue? Theory and Evidence on Language Policy Preferences in Zambia (with Christopher Rauh). Journal of African Economies. 32.1 (2023): 52-80.
Viewing Caste Inequality Upside Down The Perversity of Special Schemes for Brahmins in South India (with Ashwini Deshpande). Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 57, Issue No. 32, 06 Aug, 2022
Linguistic Diversity, Official Language Choice and Human Capital (with David D. Laitin). Journal of Development Economics, 156 (2022): 102811.
Early Childhood Stunting and Later life Outcomes: A Longitudinal Analysis (with Ashwini Deshpande). Economics and Human Biology, Volume 44, 2022, 101099.
The Legacy of Colonial Language Policies and its Impact on Student Learning: Evidence from an Experimental Program in Cameroon (with David D. Laitin and Stephen L. Walter), Economic Development and Cultural Change, Oct 2019, Volume 68 (1), 239-72.
Traditional Hierarchies and Affirmative Action in a Globalizing Economy: Evidence from India (with Ashwini Deshpande), World Development, Jun 2019, Vol. 118: 63-78.
Discrimination without Taste - How Discrimination can spillover and persist (with Christopher Rauh). Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, vol. 9 (3), p.249-274, August 2018
Dominant or backward? Political economy of the demand for quotas by Jats, Patels and Marathas (with Ashwini Deshpande)., Economic and Political Weekly, May 2017, Vol. 52, Issue No. 19.
Language use in education and human capital formation: Evidence from the Ethiopian educational reform, World Development, October 2017, Vol.98: 195-213.
Language Policy and Human Development (with David D. Laitin), American Political Science Review, 2016, 110(3): 457-480.
Book Chapters
Language and socioeconomic development: an overview (with David D. Laitin), Forthcoming in The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language, second edition (edited by Shlomo Weber), Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Patterns of Global Disparities in Access to Electricity and Clean Cooking Fuels.” In Energy Justice: Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable and Modern Energy for All, edited by Adnan Trakic, Ridoan Karim, Pervaiz K. Ahmed), pp. 43-62. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2024.
Caste and Socoieconomic Disparities in India: An Overview, Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action (edited by Ashwini Deshpande). Springer Books, pg 517-541