Working Papers


  • "Labor Market Effects of High School Science Majors in a High STEM Economy"(with Tarun Jain, Nishith Prakash and Raghav Rakesh), IZA Discussion Paper No. 11908, October 2018 (published as "Science Education and Labor Market Outcomes in a Developing Economy" in Economic Inquiry)

  • "Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Theory and Evidence from India" (with Sabyasachi Das and Rajas Saroy), Latest Version: IZA Discussion Paper No. 11093, October 2017

  • "Redistributing Teachers using Local Transfers" (with Siddhant Agarwal, Athisii Kayina and Anugula Reddy) ISI Discussion Paper 16-08, September 2016. (published in World Development)

  • “Income Guarantees and Borrowing in Risky Environments. Evidence from India' Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme" (with Clive Bell) Latest Version: August 2016 (published in Economica)

  • “Income Guarantees and Borrowing in Risky Environments. Evidence from India' Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme" (with Clive Bell) IZA Discussion Paper No. 9357, September 2015

  • "Higher Education and Prosperity: Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India" (with Amparo Castelló-Climent and Latika Chaudhry): Latest Version: March 2016 (published in The Economic Journal)

  • "Tertiary Education and Prosperity: Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India" (with Amparo Castelló-Climent and Latika Chaudhary): IZA Discussion Paper No. 9441, October 201

  • “Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India” (with Bhanu Gupta) Latest Version July 2015 (published in the European Journal of Political Economy)

      • “Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India” (with Bhanu Gupta) ESID Working Paper No. 42 (University of Manchester) , November 2014

      • “Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India” (with Bhanu Gupta) IZA Discussion Paper No. 8196 , May 2014

  • “Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme” (with Farzana Afridi & Soham Sahoo) Latest version: August 2015 (published in the IZA Journal of Labor & Development)

      • “Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme” (with Farzana Afridi & Soham Sahoo) Young Lives Working Paper 95 March 2013

      • “Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme” (with Farzana Afridi & Soham Sahoo) IZA Discussion Paper No. 6593 May 2012

  • “Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India” (with Soham Sahoo) Latest Version: September 2015 (published in the Economics of Education Review)

  • "Gender differences in health expenditure of rural cancer patients: Evidence from a public tertiary care facility in India" (with Akansha Batra and Indrani Gupta) Latest version: November 2014 (published in the Journal of Quantitative Economics)

      • "Does gender discrimination drive gender differences in health expenditure of adults: Evidence from cancer patients in Rural India" (with Akansha Batra and Indrani Gupta) ISI Discussion Paper 14-03, January 2014

  • "The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan: Rationed Funds and their allocation across villages" (with Himanshu and M. Sharan) ESID Working Paper No. 35 January 2015 (published in Economic and Political Weekly)

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

  • “Mass Education or a Minority Well Educated Elite in the Process of Development: the Case of India” (with Amparo Castelló Climent), CEP Discussion Paper No 1086, London School of Economics, November 2011 (published in Journal of Development Economics)

  • “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.

  • “Multiple Dimensions of Urban Poverty: Evidence from India” (with S. Chandrasekhar) Poverty, Gender, and Youth Working Paper No. 11 , Population Council , New York, USA, 2008 (parts of this are published in (Asian Population Studies)

  • “The Effects of NREGS on Rural Households in India: Evidence from Karauli District in Rajasthan”. (Paper submitted to Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, France), 2008.

  • “Negative Reality of the HIV Positives: Evaluating Welfare Loss in a Low Prevalence Country”, with Sanghamitra Das and Tridip Ray, ISI Discussion Paper 08-02 , Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi Centre), New Delhi, India, February 2008. (published in B.E. Journal)

  • “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 S. Imai, Kala Krishna and Ling Hui Tan), IMF Working Paper 179, September 2004.

  • "Trade with labour market distortions and heterogenous labor: Why trade can hurt" (Kala Krishna and Cemile Yaves), NBER Working Paper 9086, July 2002.