Published work

Is land use deregulation enough to deliver housing? The case of institutional frictions in India (with Arnab Dutta and Richard K Green) 

 Real Estate Economics , accepted. 

Do urban regulations exacerbate rural-urban inequality? Evidence from rent control in India  (with Arnab Dutta and Richard K Green) 

  Journal of Economic Geography, forthcoming.  

  - Older Brookings India working paper here. 

    - Media:- Livemint, Outlook Business 

Do Mandatory Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets in India (with Vaidehi Tandel, Anupam Nanda, & Nandini Agnihotri)

 Journal of Public Economics (2025), 247, 105395. 

- VoxDev

Building networks: Investigating the quid pro quo between local politicians & developers (with Tandel, V.  and Tabarrok, A.)

Journal of Development Economics (2023) , 164.  

- VoxDev

Women's right to property and the quantity-quality trade-off of children: Evidence from India (with Tandel, V.,  Dutta, A., and Narayanan, A )  

Journal of Population Economics (2023), 36, 2967-3003. 

Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India’s housing vacancy paradox (with Green, R. K., and Patranabis, S.)

Journal of Urban Economics (2022), 131C. 

 Infrastructure, enforcement and COVID-19 in Mumbai slums (with Tandel, V. , Patranabis, S., Bettencourt, L. and Malani, A.)

Journal of Regional Science (2022), 62(3), 645-669.

 - Brookings Impact blog.

 - Media Mention(s): Financial Times, Straits Times, BMJ Opinion, Hindustan Times, LiveLaw,  Livemint

Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and the real estate market in Mumbai (with Tandel, V. , Tabarrok, A., and Ravi, S.)

Journal of Urban Economics (2021), 123, 1-14. 

 - Brookings working paper (2019).

   - Media Mention(s):  Financial Times (2019, 2025)

Decline of rental housing in India: the case of Mumbai (with Tandel, V., Patel, S., Pethe, A., and Agarwal, K.).

Environment and Urbanization (2016), 28(1), 259-274. 

- NYU Marron Institute working paper here

- Media   Mention(s):      Livemint 

Land-based Financing in Metropolitan Cities in India: The Case of Hyderabad and Mumbai (with V Phatak)

Urbanisation (2016), 1(1), 31-52.

Re-thinking urban planning in India (with Pethe, A., Nallathiga, R., & Tandel, V. )

Cities (2014), 39, 120-132. 

Vulnerabilities of Institutional Checks in Indian Federalism: The Case of the Adarsh Society Scam (with Tandel, V., Libeiro, S. J., & Marpakwar, C.)

India Review (2014), 13(2), 112-128.

Anatomy of ownership and management of public land in Mumbai (Pethe, A., Tandel, V., & Libeiro, S.)

Environment and Urbanization Asia (2012), 3(1), 203-220.

Understanding issues related to polycentric governance in the Mumbai metropolitan region (with Pethe, A., & Tandel, V.)

Public Finance and Management (2012), 12(3), 182-203.

Economics of Affordable Housing in Indian Cities: The Case of Mumbai 

Environment and Urbanization Asia (2011) 3(1): 221-235.

Working papers 

Adapting to Flood Risk: Evidence from a Panel of Global Cities (New draft!) (submitted)

with Matthew Kahn, Rajat Kochhar, Somik Lall, and Vaidehi Tandel 

NBER working paper 

- Media: VoxEU & World Economic Forum

Cited by: New Data and Insights in Regional and Urban Economics, by Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan & Adam Storeygard

Essential reading for BREAD-IGC Virtual PhD Course on Environmental Economics lecture on sea level rise by Clare Balboni & Allan Hsiao 

(In)formal Living: India's dual urban housing supply elasticities

with Arnab Dutta and Richard K Green. 

Scaling heights: Affordability implications of zoning deregulation in India  (new draft coming soon)

with Geetika Nagpal

Can property rights improve access to private toilets in slums? (submitted)

with Shaonlee Patranabis

Selected Papers in Progress

Public housing and social outcomes in urban India (data in collection)

with Geetika Nagpal and Vaidehi Tandel

(Funding secured from IGC Cities 2024)

Other Publications 

Emerging Challenges of Metropolitan Governance in India (with A Pethe)

Economic and Political Weekly 2017, 52(27), 55-65.

What Urbanisation Reforms Owe K C Sivaramakrishnan  (with V Tandel)

Economic and Political Weekly 2017, 52(22), 27-29.

Real Estate Prices in Mumbai: Does the Metro Rail Have an Impact? (with Tandel, V., Pethe, A., Phatak, V., & Risbud, S. )

Economic and Political Weekly (2014), 55-61

Unravelling the Anatomy of Legal Corruption: Focusing on 'Honest Graft' by Politicians (with Pethe, A., & Tandel, V.)

Economic and Political Weekly (2012), 55-62.

- Media Mention(s):   Economic Times, Hindustan Times

Assessing the Mumbai metropolitan region: A governance perspective (with Pethe, A., & Tandel, V.)

Economic and Political Weekly (2011), 187-195.