PUBLICATIONS

Year-wise Publications 

2024

1. Who Benefits from Appeals to Vote? Evidence from a Get-out-the-Vote (GOTV) Campaign in India (with Manhar Manchanda), Public Choice, forthcoming

2. Conditionality Matters -  A Samaritan's Dilemma with In-Kind Transfers Targeting Educational Attainment (with Oindrila Dey), IIMB Management Review, forthcoming

3. Motherhood Penalty Revisited: Impacts of Maternity Leave Mandates on Nature of Employment Contracts (with Saheli Bose),  Journal of Development Studies, forthcoming

4. Women's Empowerment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Multidimensional Policy in India (with Prashant Poddar), Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol 72 (2), January 2024

2023

1. (En-) 'lightening' Children: Assessing the Impacts of Access to Electricity on Children's Achievement Levels (with Shiv Hastawala and Jai Kamal),  Review of Development Economics, Vol 27 (4), November 2023

2. Passing the Buck! - Do Individual Biases affect Measures of Confidence in Public Institutions, Oxford Economic Papers, Vol 75 (3), July 2023

3. Does Increased Credibility of Elections Lead to Higher Political Competition? Evidence from India (with Mehreen Mookerjee, Manini Ojha and Sanket Roy), European Journal of Political Economy,  Vol 77, March 2023

2022

1. How hard did that sting? Estimating the economic costs of locust attacks on agricultural production , Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy , Vol 44 (1), March 2022

2. "Does Investment Climate Affect GDP? Panel Data Evidence Using Reduced Form and Stochastic Frontier Analysis" , (with Debdatta Pal and Subrata K Mitra), Journal of Business Research, Vol 138, January 2022

2021

1. "Long-Term Labor Market Consequences of Costly Signalling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment" (with Jai Kamal),  Journal of Human Capital, Vol 15 (4), Winter 2021

2. "None of the Above: Protest Voting in the World's Largest Democracy" (with Gergely Ujhelyi and Andrea Szabo), Journal of the European Economic Association , Vol 19 (3), 2021
   {For a summarized blog on this research, visit the IGC page.}

3. From Safe Motherhood to Cognitive Ability: Exploring Intra-Household and Inter-Generational Spillovers (with Prashant Poddar), Economica , Vol 88 (352), 2021

[An Earlier Version appeared as a Discussion Paper: GLO DP 332]

5. Voting for the Underdog or Jumping on the Bandwagon? Evidence from India's Exit Poll Ban (with Jai Kamal),  Public Choice,  Vol 188 (3-4), 2021

6. Is there Political Elite Capture in Access to Energy Sources? Evidence from Indian Households  (with Debdatta Pal),  World Development, Vol 140 (April), 2021

7. Access to Credit and Temptation Goods, The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol 55 (3), 2021

8. "Moving up the energy ladder: Does socio-religious status matter?" (with Prashant Poddar and Debdatta Pal), Population and Environment,  Vol 42 (3), 2021

2020

1. From Better Schools to Better Nourishment: Evidence from a School Building Program in India, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, Vol 10 (1), 2020

2019

1. The Curious Case of Farmer Credit Cards: Higher Output with No Increase in Borrowing, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol 19(1), 2019.                                                                                                 
    {Summarized versions of this research were featured in the Business Standard newspaper and Ideas for India portal in English and Hindi. The Editorial Page of Bengali Newspaper Ananda Bazar Patrika also carried a vernacular summary.}

2. Fruit Consumption and Morbidity: Can Policymakers Trust the Proverbial 'Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away' Theory? [Abstract] , The Empirical Economics Letters, Vol 18 (10), 2019

2018

1. "Storage Infrastructure and Agricultural Yield: Evidence from a Capital Investment Subsidy Scheme", Economics-the open access open-assessment e-journal, Vol 12 (2018-65), 2018

2.  "Do Private Tutors Enhance English language Ability? Regression Discontinuity Evidence from a Policy Experiment in India", Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol 70 (2), 2018

2017

1. "Getting Girls to Schools! Assessing the Impacts of a Targeted Program on Enrollment and Academic Performance", The B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol 17(1), 2017

2016

1. "The Role of the Firm in Worker Wage Dispersion: An Analysis of the Ghanaian Manufacturing Sector", IZA Journal of Labor and Development, Vol 5 (16), 2016

2015

1. " 'Powering' Agriculture: Andhra Pradesh's Free Electricity Story" , Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 50 (44), 2015