Research

Journal Special Issues

1. Understanding Agricultural Development and Change: Learning from Vietnam, Food Policy, Vol 94, July 2020 (Guest edited with Carol Newman and Finn Tarp). [Introduction] [Full Issue, Open Access]

Published Papers: Economics

1. Cash transfers and mental health in Egypt (with Hoda El-Enbaby, Bruce Hollingsworth and Jean-François Maystadt). Economics & Human Biology, forthcoming. [Open Access]

2. Commodity price volatility and the psychological wellbeing of farmers (with Finn Tarp). American Journal of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming. [Open Access]

3. Social identity, behavior and personality: Evidence from India, Journal of Development Studies, 59(4), 472-489, 2023 (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani and Smriti Sharma). [Open Access]

Blogs/ non-technical summary: LUMS 54 Degrees Magazine; Ideas for India

4. Effect of peers and rank on cognition, preferences and personality, Review of Economics and Statistics, 104 (3): 587–601, 2022 (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani and Smriti Sharma). [Open Access]

5. Inequality, institutions and cooperation, European Economic Review, 138, 103842, 2021 (with Thomas Markussen, Smriti Sharma, and Finn Tarp). [PDF]

6. Corruption and mental health: Evidence from Vietnam, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 185, 125-137, 2021 (with Smriti Sharma and Finn Tarp). [Open Access].

Blogs/ non-technical summary: LUMS 54 Degrees magazine; The Conversation

7. Development programs, security, and violence reduction: Evidence from an insurgency in India, World Development, 130, 104911, 2020 (with Heidi Kaila and Divya Tuteja). [Open Access]

8. Early life shocks and mental health: Long-term effects of war in Vietnam, Journal of Development Economics, 141, 102244, 2019. [Open Access] 

9. Income generation, intra-household allocation and malaria, Journal of Development Economics, 139, 157-170, 2019 (with Yao Pan). [Open Access]

10. Commodity prices and intra-household labor allocation, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101(2), 436-454, 2019 (with Ulrik Beck and Finn Tarp) [Open Access].

11. Internal and External Validity: Comparing Two Simple Risk Elicitation Tasks, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 81, 39-46, 2019 (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani and Smriti Sharma). [Link]

12. Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition? Journal of Economic Psychology, 70, 1-11, 2019 (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani and Smriti Sharma). [Link]

13. The economic effects of a counterinsurgency policy in India: A synthetic control analysis, European Journal of Political Economy, 45, 1-17, 2016 (with R Nilakantan). [Open Access]  

    1. • Older version circulated as "Naxalite Insurgency and the Economic Benefits of a Unique Robust Security Response" [PDF]

14. Tiered housing allocation with pre-announced rankings: An experimental analysis,  Journal of Economics & Management Strategy,  25(1), 133-160, 2016 (with Juan Carrillo). [Link] 

15. The economics of counterinsurgency: Some evidence from Andhra Pradesh, Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 9(1), 2014. [Link]

Published Papers: Multidisciplinary 

16. Impact of sexual and reproductive health interventions among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review, Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 5, 2024 (with Isaac Chipako and Bruce Hollingsworth . [Open Access]

17. Young people, mental health, and civil conflict: Preliminary findings from Ethiopia's Tigray region, Psychiatry Research Communications, 2(1), 100025, 2022 (with Marta Favara, Annina Hittmeyer, Catherine Porter and Tassew Woldehanna). [Open Access]

Book Chapters

1. Ethnic disadvantage in Vietnam: Evidence using panel data. in Finn Tarp (ed.) Growth, Structural Transformation and Rural Change in Viet Nam: A Rising Dragon on the Move. Oxford University Press, 2017 (with Ulrik Beck). [Open Access] 

2. Needs vs expediency: Poverty reduction and social development in post-conflict countries. in Arnim Langer and Graham Brown (eds.) Building Sustainable Peace: Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peace building. Vol. 1: Issues and Dynamics, Oxford University Press, 2016 (with Tony Addison, Rachel Gisselquist and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa). [PDF]

3. Aid to Africa: The changing context, in Celestin Monga and Justin Lin (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Oxford University Press. 2015 (with Tony Addison and Finn Tarp). [PDF]

Working Papers

1. The long-term effect of improving early-life learning preparedness on cognitive abilities (with Arya Gaduh). [PDF]

2. Agricultural productivity and deforestation (with Ryan Abman, Teevrat Garg, and Yao Pan). [PDF]

3. Welfare dynamics in rural Vietnam: Learning from regular, high-quality panel data (with Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp).  WIDER WP 169/2018 [PDF]

Selected Work in Progress

1. Returns to labor market and entrepreneurship programs in fragile states: Experimental evidence from Azerbaijan (with Subha Mani,  Eric Mvukiyehe, and Olga Shemyakina).

2. Enchancing the effectiveness of vocational education in Vietnam (with Smriti Sharma, Finn Tarp, Diego Ubfal, and Lore Vandewalle).

3. Conflict, mental health and education in South Sudan (with Denise Ferris, Catherine Porter and Munshi Sulaiman).