Thamarapani, D., Rockmore, M. and Friedman, W. (forthcoming) "The Educational Effects of Sibling Deaths on Surviving Siblings", Economic Development and Cultural Change.
Padmakanthi, N., Jayaweera, R., Dias, A. and Thamarapani, D. (2025) “Are Low-Income Households in Sri Lanka Adequately Food Secure?”, Social Sciences, 14(12), p. 717.
Sen, G. and Thamarapani, D. (2023) "Keeping Girls in Schools Longer: The Kanyashree Approach in India", Feminist Economics, 29(4), pp. 36-64.
Pasha, M., Rockmore, M., Tan, C. M. and Thamarapani, D. (2023) "Early Life Exposure to Above Average Rainfall and Adult Mental Health", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 85(4), pp. 692-717.
De, P. and Thamarapani, D. (2022) "Impacts of Negative Shocks on Subjective Wellbeing and Aspirations – Evidence from an Earthquake", World Development, 154, pp. 105876.
Thamarapani, D. and Rockmore, M. (2022) "The Stability and Evolution of Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences After a Disaster", International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 70, pp. 102791.
Thamarapani, D. (2020) "Natural Disasters and Child Health", Environment and Development Economics, 26(1), pp. 26–44.
Tan, C. M. and Thamarapani, D. (2019) "The Impact of Sustained Attention on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Ghana", Review of Development Economics, 23(1), pp. 155–171.
Thamarapani, D. (2013) "The Impact of Telecommunication Growth on the Service Sector: A Co-integration Analysis", Journal of Management, 9(1), pp. 58–69.*
* Undergraduate dissertation
Thamarapani, D. and Padmakanthi, N. (2026) “Is the End In Sight? Revisiting Sri Lanka’s Social Protection Architecture in Achieving the End-Poverty Target”.
Thamarapani, D. (2024) "Human Capital Accumulation across Three Consecutive Generations".
Jayaweera, R., Padmakanthi, D., Thamarapani, D., and Dias, A. (2026) “A Comprehensive Analysis of the Short-Term and Long-Term Impacts of Social Protection on Poverty Alleviation” Colombo: Gamani Corea Foundation.
As a research team member my duties included creating the survey questionnaire, writing the grant proposal – successfully funded as Grant No. 13 2024-25 – and editing the final report as well as preparing the working papers for peer-reviewed publication.
Nakamura, S., Sato, R., and Thamarapani, D. (2025) “Multidimensional Poverty and Spatial Disparities in Solomon Islands” Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
As a consultant to the East Asian and Pacific - Poverty and Equity team, my duties comprised of compiling a repository of data, creating statistical program files for data cleaning and analysis, generating geo-coded maps, tables, and graphs, and writing the report.
Arunatilake, N., Wanigasinghe, L., Vithanage, H., and Seneviratne, B. (2023) “Ed-tech landscape and challenges in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa”, Occasional Paper No. 89, Southern Voice. Link.
As a consultant to the team, my duties comprised of conducting a systematic review, writing the final report, analyze 4 case studies, present the findings at the workshop in Mexico City, Mexico.
Padmakanthi, D., Thamarapani, D., Vithanage, T., and Mayoshi, M. (2024). Gamani Corea Foundation Team Grant No. 13 2024-25. Three million Sri Lankan Rupees (LKR 3,000,000.00) awarded for the project entitled “A Comprehensive Evaluation of Poverty and Vulnerability in Sri Lanka in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals”.