My research falls into four themes:
Urbanization in developing countries, particularly the impact of processes of economic liberalization and globalization. Here is a recent paper that I have published on this issue: "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. Another recent publication is a quasi-academic piece on the destruction of Mumbai's ecology in the India Forum.
Welfare Economics - distributional analysis, inequality of opportunity, poverty, unemployment etc. Two recent publications are: (i) “Inequality of Opportunity in India: Concepts, Measurement and Empirics,” Indian Journal of Human Development, 12 (1), pp. 1-12, 2018 (ii) "Unemployment Burden and its Distribution: Theory and Evidence from India," (joint with Karthikeya Naraparaju) Review of Development Economics, 22 (2), pp. 787-807, 2017.
Political economy of India. I have recently co-edited (with R. Nagaraj) Political Economy of Contemporary India, Cambridge University Press, 2017. This volume brings together social scientists from different disciplines, who are working from various methodological perspectives. It is a product of a partnership among Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Mumbai, King's College London, and the University of California Berkeley. For details, see this link.
Organizational forms of production and distribution, and alternatives. Here is a recent paper under this theme: "Incomplete Contracts, Power and Efficiency: A Theoretical Analysis," Studies in Microeconomics, 7 (22), 2019, pp. 173-188..
A complete list of my publications is available in my CV.