Research Interests 

Political Economy of Development; Conflict; Structural Transformation; Inequality; Land reform.  


Work in progress

Sectoral Productivity Linkages, Complementarity in Sectoral Outputs, and Income Differences (with D. Raju)  

Intersectoral Implications of Construction Productivity (with K. Sen)

Firm Ownership Structure and Management Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa (with A. Dabalen)


Working Papers

Regional Differences in Intersectoral Linkages and Diverse Patterns of Structural Transformation (with D. Raju) [IZA DP No. 15461 (2022)]  [World Bank PRWP 10446, May 2023]   Submitted

Regional Disparity in Informal-Formal Productivity Gap and Productivity Growth from Structural Transformation (with D. Raju). [IZA DP no. 14407, June 2021] [World Bank PRWP 9683, June 2021]    Submitted

Out of Communal Land: Clientelism Through Delegation of Agricultural Tenancy Constracts (with T. Kurosaki and F. Witoelar)  [IZA DP no. 14263, April 2021]     Submitted



Dormant Papers

Access to Land and Tenancy Practices on Tanah Bengkok: Evidence from Java, Indonesia (with Takashi Kurosaki and Firman Witoelar)  [IZA DP no. 13597, August 2020]      

A Decline in Labor’s Share with Capital Accumulation and Complementary Factor Inputs [IZA DP no. 12219, March 2019]   [Revised draft March 2020]     

Labor Income Share Dynamics with Variable Elasticity of Substitution. [IZA DP no. 12418, June 2019]   [Revised draft May 2020]     

By-employment Across Agricultural Occupation Classes: Structural Transformation in Colonial Bengal  [Draft, June 2020]