Working Papers
"Forced Displacement and Social Capital: Long-run Impact of the Indian Partition" (with Prasad Bhattacharya), ISI Discussion Paper No. 22-01, July 2022.
"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)
“Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India” (with Soham Sahoo) IZA Discussion Paper No. 6507, April 2012
“Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India” (with Soham Sahoo) Institute of Economic Growth Working Paper No. 312, 2012
"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.