Research

Published Papers

Are Educated Leaders Good for Education? Evidence from India, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 176, 42–62, 2020 (with Soham Sahoo). [Working Paper]
How Serious is the Neglect of Intra-Household Inequality in Multi-dimensional Poverty Indices?” In: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020 - Forthcoming. [Working Paper]
School choice in rural India: a study of perceptions and realities in four states. In: Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), 2019.
The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP): An Overview, Journal of Globalization and Development, 7(1): 61–108, 2016 (with Arjun Jayadev and Sanjay Reddy). [Working Paper]
International Income Poverty Measurement: Which Way Now?, Journal of Economic Inequality, 14(2): 199-225, 2016 (with Stephan Klasen, Tatyana Krivobokova, Friederike Greb, Syamsul Hidayat Pasaribu & Manuel Wiesenfarth). [Working Paper]
$1.90 Per Day: What does it say?, New Left Review 97, 2016 (with Sanjay Reddy). [Working Paper]
Economic Development and Female Labor Force Participation in India, Feminist Economist, 22(2): 168-195, 2016 (with Hema Swaminathan) [Working Paper]
‘Moving from Household to Individual: Multidimensional Poverty Analysis’, World Development, 59: 70-81, 2014 (with Ramya Vijaya and Hema Swaminathan). [Working Paper]
Gender Asset and Wealth Gaps: Evidence from Karnataka, Economic & Political Weekly, 47(35), 2012 (with Hema Swaminathan and Suchitra J.Y.).

Development will Not Cure Gender Inequality, Policy Might, Economic & Political Weekly, 2018.
Aadhar Linked Direct Benefit Transfers for LPG: A “Phenomenal“ Success?, Economic & Political Weekly 24 2016.
Not in her Name, Economic & Political Weekly, 51(5), 2016 (with Hema Swaminathan and Suchitra J Y).
A Rejoinder on LPG Subsidies, Economic & Political Weekly, 48(1), 2013 (with Suchitra J.Y. and Prodyumna Goutam).
Subsidies for Whom? The Case of LPG in India’, Economic & Political Weekly, 47(44), 2012 (with Suchitra J.Y. and Prodyumna Goutam).

Transitioning to No Poverty. In: Transitioning to Sustainability Series. Ed. by Isabel Gunther and Rahul Lahoti. MDPI Books, 2020 (Forthcoming).
The Middle Muddle: Conceptualizing and Measuring the Global Middle Class, published in Toward a Just Society: Joseph Stiglitz and Twenty-First Century Economics Edited by Martin Guzman, 2018. (with Arjun Jayadev and Sanjay Reddy) [Working Paper Version].

Pandemic, informality, and vulnerability: Impact of COVID-19 on livelihoods in India, CSE Working Paper, 2020 (with Surbhi Kesar, Rosa Abraham, Amit Basole and Paaritosh Nath)
Gender Gaps in Ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa, Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 8573. Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, 2018 (with Isis Gaddis)
Inequality - Worldwide Trends and Current Debates, Courant Research Center: Poverty, Equity and Growth, 2016 (with Stephan Klasen, Sebastin Vollmer, Sophie Ocmann and Nathalie Scholl).
Who Got What, Then and Now? A Fifty Year Overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, 2015 (with Arjun Jayadev and Sanjay Reddy) [also published in Courant Research Center Series, New School Working Paper Series].
Measuring Personal Wealth in Developing Countries: Interviewing Men and Women about Asset Values, The Gender Asset Gap Project Working Paper Series, 2013 (with Gender Asset Gap Team).
Individual Property Rights and Bargaining Outcomes: Evidence from Intra-Household Asset Data, Indian Institute of Management Working Paper Series, 2012 (with Hema Swaminathan and Suchitra J.Y.).
Women's Property, Mobility and Decision Making: Evidence from Rural Karnataka, India, IFPRI Discussion Paper, 2012 (with Hema Swaminathan and Suchitra J.Y.).
Individual Asset Holding Patterns: District Level Estimates from Karnataka, The Gender Asset Gap Project Working Paper Series, 2011 (with Hema Swaminathan and Suchitra J.Y.).