Publications

Education

• "Science Education and Labor Market Outcomes in a Developing Economy" (with Tarun Jain, Nishith Prakash and Raghav Rakesh): Economic Inquiry, Volume 60 (2), pp 741-763, 2022 Online version here

• "Redistributing Teachers using Local Transfers" (with Siddhant Agarwal, Athisii Kayina and Anugula Reddy): World Development, Volume 110 (October), pp 333-344, 2018

• "Higher Education and Prosperity: From Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India" (with Amparo Castelló-Climent and Latika Chaudhry): The Economic Journal, Volume 128 (December), pp. 3039-3075, 2018.  Online Version. Working Paper Version: IZA

• "Human Capital and the Economy: Where are the Tertiary Educated?", in India Development Report, edited by S. Mahendra Dev, Oxford University Press, 2017. 
[Last Working Paper Version: Here]

• "Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India” (with Soham Sahoo): Economics of Education Review, Volume 54, October 2016, pp 124-142. Working Paper Version: IZA

• “Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme” (with Farzana Afridi & Soham Sahoo): IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 5:7, April 2016 [Click here for the paper]

• “Mass Education or a Minority Well Educated Elite in the Process of Growth: the Case of India” (with Amparo Castelló Climent): Journal Of Development Economics,Volume 106, Nov 2013. Working Paper Version: CEP 

• “Does Cost of Primary Education Matter: Evidence from Rural India” (with S. Chandrasekhar), Economic and Political Weekly, September 2006.

Public Policy: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme  

   Impact Analysis

• “Income Guarantees and Borrowing in Risky Environments. Evidence from India' Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme" (with Clive Bell) , Economica, 87(347), July 2020.  https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12325

• “Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme” (with Farzana Afridi & Soham Sahoo): IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 5:7, April 2016 [Click here for the paper]

    Political Economy:

• "Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Theory and Evidence from India" (with Sabyasachi Das and Rajas Saroy): Forthcoming: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, For an earlier version see here: IZA Discussion Paper No. 11093, October 2017 

• “Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India” (with Bhanu Gupta): European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 41, January 2016, pp 14-30

• “The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan: Rational Funds and their Allocation across villages” (with Himashu and M. Sharan): Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 50, Issue 6, February 6th, 2015

• "The Political Economy of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme" ESID Working Paper No. 15 September 2012

Health

• "Socioeconomic inequality in life expectancy in India" an analysis of the fourth round of National Family Health Survey" (with M. Asaria, S. Mazumdar, S. Chowdhury, P. Mazumdar and I. Gupta): BMJ-Global Health, 2019; 4(3) https://gh.bmj.com/content/4/3/e001445 

• "Gender differences in health expenditure of rural cancer patients: Evidence from a public tertiary care facility in India" (with A. Batra and I. Gupta): Journal of Quantitative Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40953-017-0113-4

• “The Economic Burden of Cancer” (with B. K. Mohanti, S. Das, K.Sharma & S. Dash): Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 43, Issue 46, October 22nd, 2011

• “Integrating Mental Health in Welfare Evaluation: An Empirical Application to the case of HIV-AIDS in India” (With S. Das and T. Ray), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 9 : Issue 1 (Topics), 2009, Article 41.

• “Economic Cost Analysis in Cancer Management and its Relevance Today” (with K. Sharma, S. Das,  G. K. Rath and B. K. Mohanti),  Indian Journal of Cancer, Vol 46, Issue 3, July-September 2009,  pp. 184-189.

• “Economic cost of HIV and AIDS in India,” (with S. Das and T. Roy), in Markus Haacker and Mariam Claeson, edited, HIV and AIDS in South Asia: A Development Risk, The World Bank (Washington D.C.), Feb. 2009, pp. 123-151.

Labour

• The Changing Nature of Rurality: Reframing the Discourse on Migration and Commuting (with S. Chandrasekhar), in Structural Transformation and Dynamics of Labour Mobility, edited by D Narasimha Reddy and Kailash Sarap, Palgrave Macmillan. 2017. [Last Working Paper Version: Here]

• “Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme” (with Farzana Afridi & Soham Sahoo): IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 5:7, April 2016 [Click here for the paper]

• “Stepping out of Palanpur: Employment outside Palanpur” Asia Research Centre Working Paper No. 46, London School of Economics, London, UK 2011

•  "Non-Farm Diversification and Rural Poverty Decline: A perspective from Indian Sample survey and village study data” (with Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw  and Rinku Murgai) Asia Research Centre Working Paper No. 44, London School of Economics, London, UK 2011.

• “Rural Unemployment 1999-2005: Who Gained, Who Lost?”, (with Indira Rajaraman), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42 (30) July 28 - August 03, 2007, pp. 3116-3120.

Distribution Analysis: Multi-Dimensional Evaluations, Inequality and Poverty

• “Multiple-Dimensions of Urban Well Being: Evidence from India” (with S. Chandrasekhar): Asian Population Studies,Volume 8 (2), March 2012, 173-186

• “Poverty and Well being in Indian Cities during the Reforms Era” (with S Chandrasekhar): Berkley Electronic Press: Poverty and Public Policy, Volume 1, Issue 2, April 2010.

• “Is India better off today than 15 years ago? A Robust Multidimensional Answer” (with N. Gravel), Journal of Economic Inequality, Volume 8, Issue 2, 2010, pp 173-195 (Online Version May 2009)

• “A Robust Normative Evaluation of India’s Performance in Allocating Risks of Death” (with N. Gravel and B. Tarroux), Indian Growth and Development Review, Vol. 1, May  2008. pp. 95-111.

Urban Economics

• “Multiple-Dimensions of Urban Well Being: Evidence from India” (with S. Chandrasekhar): Asian Population Studies,Volume 8 (2), March 2012, 173-186

• “Poverty and Well being in Indian Cities during the Reforms Era” (with S Chandrasekhar): Berkley Electronic Press: Poverty and Public Policy, Volume 1, Issue 2, April 2010.

• “Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in Urban India”, (with S. Chandrasekhar), in George Martine, Gordon McGranahan and Mark Montgomery ed. Living in an Urban World (Earthscan), 2008.

Trade

• “Ranking Countries: What Can We Learn from India’s Imports?” (with S. Chandrasekhar and Rajendra Vaidya), Journal of Quantitative Economics,  Vol. 7, Issue 2, July 2009.

• “Trade with Labor Market Distortions and Heterogeneous Labor: Why Trade Can Hurt” (with Kala Krishna and Cemile Yavas), WTO & World Trade: Challenges in a New Era, 2004. [Available as NBER Working Paper 9086, July 2002]

• “An Empirical Investigation Into How Middlemen Affect Markets”, (with Susumu Imai and Kala Krishna), ISI Discussion Paper 05-02 , Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi Centre), New Delhi, India, December 2004

• "Quota Brokers" (with Susumu Imai, Kala Krishna and Ling H. Tan), IMF Working Paper 179, September 2004.

Other Topics

•  “Rural Housing Quality as an Indicator of Consumption Sustainability” (with Indira Rajaraman): Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 47(3), March 31st, 2012, pp 112-117

• "Univariate Time Series Analysis of Public Debt" (with Indira Rajaraman), Journal of Quantitative Economics, New Series Vol. 2 (1), 2004, pp. 122-134.

• "Sustainability of Public Debt" (with Indira Rajaraman), in Amaresh Bagchi ed. Readings in Public Finance (Oxford University Press), 2004