"Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India"

• Op-Ed: Smartcards for smarter payments - VoxDev, July 07, 2017

• News: The Economics of Aadhaar - The Aadhaar project is a textbook example of how not to design and execute a public policy initiative in India - LiveMint, July 31, 2017

• News: The economics of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme - LiveMint, February 07, 2016

• News: JAM can boost social schemes in India: Karthik Muralidharan - Business Standard, November 06, 2015

• News: Smart cards cut fund leakage in MGNREGA by 12% - Business Standard, April 03, 2014

• News: How is the biomarker ID aid plan going in India? - Marginal Revolution, March 26, 2014

• Video: NCAER Distinguished Lecture Series, New Delhi - BWBusinessworld, May 29, 2014

• Video: Evaluating at Scale: The Andhra Pradesh (AP) Smartcard Project - J-PAL, January 27, 2014

• Blog: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh: Building state capacities for welfare - LiveMint, December 03, 2014

• Blog: India’s biometric smartcards, a good sentence about them - Marginal Revolution, October 17, 2014

• Lecture: IGC Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India - IGC, October 31, 2014

• News: The economics of MGNREGS - Livemint. February 07, 2016

"General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India"

• Op-ed: Strengthening NREGS to support the rural economy - Hindustan Times, March 06, 2019

• News: Digital Revolutions in Public Finance: Visionaries, Plumbers & Architects - International Monetary Fund, September 08, 2017

• News: What America would look like if it guaranteed everyone a job - Vox, September 06, 2017

• News: Evaluating direct cash transfers Part-I: Problems are for real but most beneficiaries prefer new system to old PDS - Firstpost, September 07, 2017

• News: Evaluating direct cash transfers Part-II: Correct the mistakes and go ahead, junking PDS reforms wholesale is no solution - Firstpost, September 07, 2017

• Op-ed: Use mobiles to improve governance - Hindustan Times, December 05, 2018

• News: Can mobiles phones improve governance? - Livemint, December 10, 2018

• Op-ed: Evaluating the Aadhaar-PDS link - Hindustan Times - February 16, 2020

• Op-ed: Aadhaar, no standout performer in welfare delivery - The Hindu - February 28, 2020

• News: How Aadhaar in schemes can be problematic - LiveMint - February 11, 2020

• News: Jharkhand: Almost 90% of deleted ration cards belonged to real households, finds study - Scroll.in - February 20, 2020

• News: Bulk of Jharkhand’s deleted ration cards weren’t fake, study shows - The Hindu - February 20, 2020

• News: Aadhaar use in PDS ‘not a free lunch,’ finds a study - Indian Express - February 21, 2020

• News: New Study Backs Reports That Aadhaar-PDS Link in Jharkhand Led to Exclusions - The Wire - February 21, 2020

• News: Nearly 88% of ration cards cancelled in Jharkhand belonged to genuine households: Report - The Telegraph - February 21, 2020

• News: New study points out the shortcomings of the Aadhaar-linked PDS system - Financial Express - February 22, 2020

• Interview with Prof. Karthik Muralidharan - Indian Express - February 24, 2020

• Article: Balancing corruption and exclusion: Incorporating Aadhaar into PDS - Ideas for India - April 17, 2020

• Article: Balancing corruption and exclusion: A response - Ideas for India - October 21, 2020