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Dissertation: Three Essays on Remittances, Institutions, and Economic Development
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Does international migration impact economic institutions at home?, European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 69, September 2021, 102007, ISSN 0176–2680.
Remittance inflows and starting a business, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Volume 6, No. 3, 2021, pp. 290–314.
Do Remittances Promote Financial Inclusion? . In: Hall J., Harper S.(eds), Economic and Political Institutions and Development, Springer, Cham, 2019, pp. 91–108.
Guideline for the remittance-dependent, Opinion piece, The Kathmandu Post, October 20, 2022, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Economic divergence in Asia, Opinion piece, The Kathmandu Post, September 1, 2023, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Ailing Institutions, Stagnating Economy, Opinion piece, The Kathmandu Post, March 21, 2024, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Corruption amid ideological drift, Opinion piece, The Kathmandu Post, January 31, 2025, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Economic stagnation over decades. Opinion piece, The Kathmandu Post, March 31, 2025, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Work-In-Progress Papers
Don’t boycott Africa's plea: Lessons from HIV onset to Omicron outbreak
Immigration and Social Harmony in the United States: An Empirical Investigation
Does Inflation Uncertainty Impact Output Growth? The Case of India (with Eran Guse, Associate Professor at Murray State University)
Working Papers
"Immigration and innovation in late 19th- and early 20th-century America: Evidence from state panel data" (with Feng Yao, Professor at West Virginia University)
Abstract: We exploit historical changes in tariff rates in the United States and differences in a state's proximity to oceans and other large bodies of water to estimate the causal effects of immigration on innovation and uncover the circumstances shaping this relationship. While lower average tariff rates would typically be associated with less restrictive border policy that might have encouraged higher immigration to the U.S., more immigrants potentially entered and settled in states with large coastal areas and relatively long shorelines. We find robust evidence that immigration drives innovation as measured by the proliferation of patents across states, leading to a subsequent and significant increase in the proportion of patents to state population. Interestingly, the stage of industrial development appears irrelevant for innovation, whereas the impact is more pronounced in formerly Union states in contrast to those affiliated with the Confederacy, reinforcing the views that incentives to innovate are mostly shaped by the quality of institutions and the structure of intellectual property rights. In comparison to natives, the estimate of immigrants' contribution to innovation is relatively large, a finding consistent with recent empirical studies. The results are fairly robust to alternative specifications and econometric techniques used to account for nonlinearity in innovation.
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