Research
Funded Projects:
Energy Transition and Climate-Smart Agriculture in Vietnam (funded by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, 2024-2028)
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Vocational Education in Vietnam (funded by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, 2020-2023) [AEA RCT Registry]
Living Deltas Research Hub (funded by UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund, 2019-2023)
Journal Articles:
16. A Double-Bounded Risk-Risk Trade-Off Analysis of Heatwave-Related Mortality Risks: Evidence from India (with Susan Chilton, Darren Duxbury, Irene Mussio & Jytte Seested Nielsen), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2024, 68(1), 1-23.
Blog: University of Leeds
15. Social Identity, Behavior and Personality: Evidence from India, Journal of Development Studies, 2023, Vol. 59(4), p.472-489 (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani & Saurabh Singhal) [Open Access]
Blog: Ideas for India
14. Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences and Personality, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, Vol. 104(3), p.587-601 (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani & Saurabh Singhal) [Open Access]
Blog: VoxDev, Ideas for India (reprinted in WIDERAngle)
13. Here Comes the Rain Again: Productivity Shocks, Educational Investments and Child Work, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022, Vol. 70(3), p.1041-1063 (with Christophe J. Nordman & Naveen Sunder) [download]
12. Inequality, Institutions and Cooperation, European Economic Review, 2021, Vol. 138, 103842 (with Thomas Markussen, Saurabh Singhal & Finn Tarp) [download]
11. Corruption and Mental Health: Evidence from Vietnam, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, Vol. 185, p.125-137 (with Saurabh Singhal & Finn Tarp) [Open Access]
Non-technical summary: The Conversation UK
10. Skills, Personality Traits, and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Bangladesh, Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, Vol. 71(3), p. 687-708 (with Christophe J. Nordman & Leopold R. Sarr) [download]
Non-technical summary: Newcastle University Research Highlights
9. Internal and External Validity: Comparing Two Simple Risk Elicitation Tasks, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, Vol. 81, p. 39-46. (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani & Saurabh Singhal) [download]
8. Can Gender Differences in Distributional Preferences Explain Gender Gaps in Competition?, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, Vol. 70, p. 1-11. (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani & Saurabh Singhal) [download]
Non-technical piece in Newcastle University's REACH magazine
7. Female Autonomy and Women's Welfare: An Introduction, Review of Development Economics, 2018, Vol. 22(4), p. 1385-1389 (with Finn Tarp) [Open Access]
6. Does Managerial Personality Matter? Evidence from Firms in Vietnam, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, Vol. 150, p. 432-445 (with Finn Tarp) [Open Access]
In the media: LiveMint
5. Disadvantage and Discrimination in Self-employment: Caste Gaps in Earnings in Small Indian Businesses, Small Business Economics, 2016, Vol. 46(2), p. 325-346 (with Ashwini Deshpande) [Open Access]
In the media: Indian Express
4. Gender and Distributional Preferences: Experimental Evidence from India, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, Vol. 50, p. 113-123 [Open Access]
3. Caste-based Crimes and Economic Status: Evidence from India, Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, Vol. 43(1), p. 204-226 [Open Access]
In the media: LiveMint, The Wire, Wall Street Journal India
2. Benefits of a Registration Policy for Microenterprise Performance in India, Small Business Economics, 2014, Vol. 42(1), p. 153-164 [download]
· Reprinted in Leo Paul Dana (ed.) Asian Entrepreneurship, Vol.3, Sage (April 2015).
1. Entrepreneurship or Survival? Caste and Gender of Small Business in India, Economic and Political Weekly, 2013, Vol. XLVIII(28), p. 38-49 (with Ashwini Deshpande) [download]
In the media: LiveMint, LiveMint, Indian Express; Blog: Ideas for India
Chapters in Edited Volumes:
Disadvantage and Discrimination in Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship, in Ashwini Deshpande (ed.) Handbook of Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, 2023, 615-631 [download]
Pecuniary Returns to Working Conditions in Vietnam, in John Rand and Finn Tarp (eds.) Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam, Oxford University Press, 2020 (with Christophe J. Nordman) [Open Access]
Non-technical summary: UNU-WIDER Research Brief
Edited Journal Special Issues:
Guest editor for the November 2018 special symposium on Female Autonomy and Women's Welfare at Review of Development Economics (with Finn Tarp)
Working Papers:
1. Collective Sanction Enforcement: New Experimental Evidence from Two Societies (with Kenju Kamei & Matt Walker) [download] Revisions requested at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
2. Crime and Human Capital in India (with Naveen Sunder) [IZA DP 17037]
3. Non-WEIRD Preferences (with Abu Siddique) [prepared for the Handbook of Experimental Development Economics, edited by Utteeyo Dasgupta and Pushkar Maitra]
4. The Power to Choose: Gender Balance of Power and Intra-household Educational Spending in India, UNU-WIDER Working Paper 61/2016 (with Christophe J. Nordman) [download]
In the media: Business Standard
Selected works in progress:
1. Productivity Shocks and Firm Performance (with Finn Tarp)
2. Corruption and Natural Disasters (with Heidi Kaila, Irene Mussio & Saurabh Singhal)
3. COVID-19 and Preferences for Equality in Vietnam (with Saurabh Singhal, Finn Tarp & Minh Chau Tran)
4. Weather Shocks and Early Childhood Health: Evidence from Guyana (with Nichola Williams & Sara Maioli)