Research

Publications

Journal Articles

• COVID-19 and Structural Change: Examining Gender, Caste, and Rural Labour Dynamics in India (with Neha Bailwal), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 59 (43), 2024.

• Changing Rural Labour Markets in India: Evidence from a Village in Southern Karnataka, Review of Agrarian Studies, Vol. 13 (2), 2023.

• Agrarian Question in India: Some Indications from NSSOs 70th Round (with CR Yadu), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 51(16), 2016.

Book Chapters

• Elderly Workforce Participation in India: Choice or Compulsion? (with Arun Balachandran), in S. Irudaya Rajan (eds.), Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy, Springer, 2024.

• Employment and Wages (with Jayan Jose Thomas), in Madhura Swaminathan, V. Surjit, and V.K. Ramachandran (eds.), Economic Change in the Lower Cauvery Delta: A Study of Palakurichi and Venmani Villages, Tulika Books: New Delhi, 2023.

• Agriculture and Rural Labour Markets in India (with Jayan Jose Thomas), in Rajesh Raj S.N. and Komol Singha (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Post-Reform Indian Economy, Routledge: New Delhi, 2021.

Working Papers

• India’s Rice Exports: World’s Food Security Challenges (with Jayan Jose Thomas), Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) Working Paper No. 379, National University of Singapore (NUS), August 2024.

• Impact of COVID Pandemic on Employment, Income and Distributional Outcomes in Rural India: Evidence from a Village in Karnataka, mimeo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2023.

• Wages, Internal Migration and Labour Markets: An Analysis of Indian States (with Jayan Jose Thomas), Background paper for International Labour Organization (ILO), New Delhi, 2017.

Reports

• Report on "Employment Guarantee during Covid-19: Role of MGNREGA in the year after the 2020 lockdown", Azim Premji University, 2022.

Policy Writings

• "Trading Security" (with Jayan Jose Thomas), The Mint Magazine, 15 June 2024