Education 

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA), 2002.

• M.A. in Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA), 2002.

• M.B.A, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, 1994.

• Bachelor of Technology, National Institute of Technology, Warangal (India), 1992.

Employment Experience

Academic Positions (Long Term/Permanent)

• Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston (USA), Sep 2015 to present.

• Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai (India), Feb to Aug 2015.

• Associate Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai (India), Oct 2007 to Feb 2015.

• Visiting Fellow, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai (India), July to Oct 2007.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada), Aug 2003 to Jun 2007.

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley (USA), Spring 2003. 

• Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley (USA), 2002-03.

Academic Positions (Short Term, Less than a semester)

• Visiting Fellow, King’s India Institute, King’s College, London, May 2014.

• Visiting Scientist, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, Mar 2014.

• Visiting Scholar, United Nations University-World Institute of Development Economics Research (Helsinki), Apr-Jun 2012.

• Erasmus Mundus Visiting Fellow, University of Bologna, Feb 2012.

Non-Academic Positions

• Associate Consultant, Citicorp, Bangalore (India), Jun 1994-May 1995. 

Research

Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy, Welfare Economics, Microeconomics.

Edited Volumes

• Political Economy of Contemporary India (with R. Nagaraj), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 

Articles in Refereed Journals

• "Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities," Urban Studies (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) (forthcoming).

• "Gender and Work Patterns in Indian Cities: A Socio-Spatial Analysis" (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) Feminist Economics , 29 (2), 2023, pp. 64-95. 

• "Incomplete Contracts, Power and Efficiency: A Theoretical Analysis," Studies in Microeconomics, 7 (22), 2019, pp. 173-188.

• “Inequality of Opportunity in India: Concepts, Measurement and Empirics,” Indian Journal of Human Development, 12 (1), 2018, pp. 1-12.

• “Unemployment Burden and its Distribution: Theory and Evidence from India,” (with Karthikeya Naraparaju) Review of Development Economics, 22 (2), 2018, pp. 787-807.

• “Mobility and Inequality in Neoliberal India,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) Contemporary South Asia, 24 (3), 2016, pp. 257-270.

• “Growth and Deprivation in India: What Does Recent Evidence Suggest on “Inclusiveness”?,”  (with Karthikeya Naraparaju) Oxford Development Studies, 43 (2), 2015, pp. 145-164.

• “The Dissolution of Andhra Pradesh: Insights from Growth and Distribution Patterns, 1956-2010,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) Economic and Political Weekly, XLIX (21), 2014, pp. 59-70.

• “Polarization, Inequality and Growth: The Indian Experience,” (with Nayantara Sarma), Oxford Development Studies, 42 (3), 2014, pp. 297-318.

• “The Tragedy of Identity: Reflections on Violent Social Conflict in Western Assam,” (with Nayantara Sarma) Economic and Political Weekly, XLIX (11), 2014, pp. 45-53.

• “Understanding Poverty and Inequality in Urban India since Reforms: Bringing Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches Together,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVII (47-48), 2012, pp. 44-52.

• “Demand or Supply for Schooling in Rural India?,”  (with Lars Osberg) electronic International Journal of Time Use Research, 9 (1), 2012, pp. 1-27.

• “Tragedy of the Commons Revisited (I): Granite Quarrying in Telangana,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Anant Maringanti and Sujatha Surepalli) Economic and Political Weekly, XLVII (42), 2012, pp. 10-13.

• “How Close does the Apple Fall to the Tree? Some Evidence from India on Intergenerational Occupational Mobility,” (with Ashish Singh) Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVII (40), 2012, pp. 56-65.

• “Social Capital and Basic Goods: The Cautionary Tale of Drinking Water in India,” (with Lars Osberg) Economic Development and Cultural Change, 59 (1), 2010, pp. 63-94.

• “Gender Inequalities in Tasks and Instruction Opportunities Within Indian Families,” (with Lars Osberg), Feminist Economics, 16 (3), 2010, pp. 141-67.

• “Interlinking and Collusion,” (with James A. Robinson) Review of Development Economics, 14 (2), 2010, pp. 282-301.

• “Imagined Problems in Computing Wealth Inequalities,” (with Arjun Jayadev and Vamsi Vakulabharanam) Economic and Political Weekly, 42 (51), 2007, pp. 69-71.

• “Economic and Political Inequality and the Quality of Public Goods,” (with Jeffrey B. Nugent), International Journal of Development Issues, 6 (2), 2007, pp. 142-67.

• “Ethics of Microfinance and Cooperation,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) Ethics and Economics, 5 (1), 2007.

• “Patterns of Wealth Disparities in India During the Era of Liberalization,” (with Arjun Jayadev and Vamsi Vakulabharanam) Economic and Political Weekly, 42 (39), 2007, pp. 3853-63.

• “Inequality, Quality of Primary Education and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean,” (with Jeffrey B. Nugent) Well Being and Social Policy, 3 (1), 2007, pp. 5-24.

• “Corporate and Cooperative Solutions for the Agrarian Crisis in Developing Countries,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) Review of Radical Political Economics, 39 (3), 2007, pp. 360-67.

• “Attached Labor Contracts in Agriculture: Results and Analysis from a Survey in South India,” Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 28 (1), 2007, pp. 105-24.

Articles in Edited Volumes 

• "Infrastructure Projects and Sustainable Development," in Sujata Patel, D. Parthasarathy and George Jose (eds.) Mumbai / Bombay: Majoritarian Neoliberalism, Informality, Resistance, and Wellbeing . London: Routledge, 2022.

• “A Note on Unemployment and its Measurement in India,” in Saiyed Raza Hashim, Rahul Mukherjee and Brajaraja Mishra (eds.) Perspectives on Inclusive Policies for Development of India – In Honor of Prof. R. Radhakrishna. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2022.

• “Income Inequality and Income Mobility,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) in George Ritzer and Chris Rojek (eds.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2ndEdition, John Wiley & Sons, 2020.

• “On the Measurement of “Grayness” of Cities,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) in Indraneel Dasgupta and Manipushpak Mitra (ed.), Deprivation, Inequality, and Polarization: Essays in Honor of Satya Ranjan Chakravarty. Singapore: Springer, 2019.

• “Role of Urban Inequality in the Phenomenon of Rising Wealth Inequality in India, 2002-2012,” in T. Haque and D. Narasimha Reddy (ed.), India Social Development Report 2018. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019.

• “Inequality and Poverty in India and Brazil Since the 1990s: A Comparative Analysis,” in Biju Paul Abraham and Partha Ray (ed.), BRICS: Inclusive or Exclusive Growth. World Scientific (forthcoming).

• “Economic Inequality and Social Progress,” (with Stephan Klasen, Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Rebeca Grynspan, Luis F. López- Calva, Nora Lustig, Augustin Fosu, Flora Myamba, Andreas Peichl, Eldar Shafir, Ana Sojo, Ingrid Woolard) Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Report of the International Panel on Social Progress, International Panel on Social Progress, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

• “Inequality and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Indian States,” (with Jeffrey B. Nugent) in Robert Lensink, Stefan Sjögren, & Clas Wihlborg (ed.) Paths for Sustainable Economic Development, Gothenburg, Sweden: L,S&W, 2017.

• “Towards Understanding Poverty in India,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) in Anand Akundy and R.K. Mishra (ed.) The Indian Social Sector: Trends and Issues, New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2015.

• “How Close does the Apple Fall to the Tree? Some Evidence from India on Intergenerational Occupational Mobility,” (with Ashish Singh) in Pulapre Balakrishnan (ed.) Economic Growth and its Distribution in India, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2015.

• “Alternative Futures for Smallholder Agriculture: A Theoretical Comparison of Cooperative, Corporate and Traditional Solutions,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam), in Bandi Kamaiah, S.V. Seshaiah and G.R.K. Murty (ed.) Select Issues in Macroeconomics: A Quantitative Approach, Hyderabad: IUP Publishers, 2014.

• “Understanding Poverty and Inequality in Urban India since Reforms: Bringing Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches Together,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) in Pulin Nayak (ed.) Economic Development in India, London: Routledge, 2014.

• “Indian Inequality: Patterns and Changes, 1993- 2010,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) in Mahendra Dev (ed.) India Development Report, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012.

• “Poverty and Inequality in the Age of Economic Liberalisation,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) in Dilip Nachane (ed.) India Development Report 2011, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011.

• “Political Economy of Agrarian Distress in India Since the 1990s,” (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam) in Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge (eds.) A Great Transformation? Understanding India’s Political Economy, London: Routledge, 2011.

• “Patterns of Wealth Disparities in India: 1991 -2002,” (with Arjun Jayadev and Vamsi Vakulabharanam) in Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge (eds.) A Great Transformation? Understanding India’s Political Economy, London: Routledge, 2011.

Book Reviews in Refereed Journals

• Review of: Dream Zones: Anticipating Capitalism and Development in India by Jamie Cross, London: Pluto Press in American Ethnologist, 47 (3), 2020, pp. 342-343.

• “Institutions as an Explanation for Prosperity, Poverty and Global Inequalities?” Review of: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson,  New York: Random House in Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 25 (1-2), 2013, pp. 177-185.

• Review of: The Transformation of Agri-Food Systems: Globalization, Supply Chains and Smallholder Farmers,  (eds.) Ellen B. McCullough, Prabhu L. Pingali, and Kostas G. Stamoulis, London: FAO and Earthscan in Journal of Peasant Studies, 40 (1), 2013, pp. 303-307. 

• Review of: Poverty, Inequality and Population: Essays in Development and Applied Measurement by D. Jayaraj and S. Subramanian, New Delhi: Oxford University Press in Journal of Quantitative Economics, 9 (2), 2011, pp. 184-88.

• “How do we think about development planning and its impact on poverty?” The Review of Income and Wealth, 51 (3), 2005, pp. 469-72.

Articles in Non-Refereed Journals

• “Growth, Poverty and Disparities in India: 1993 -2013,” South Asian Journal, 42, Oct-Dec 2013, pp. 30-39.

Other Publications 

• “Has Indian Growth Been Inclusive? Theoretical Concepts and Evidence,” Yojana, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, August 2015.

Languages

Telugu (Native), Hindi, English and Spanish (Basic).