"Gender and Armed Conflict" (with Maria Micaela Sviatschi) Economic Policy, 2025.
"The Complexity of Female Empowerment in India" Studies in Microeconomics, 2024. Online Appendix.
"Reservations and the Politics of Fear" (with Patrick Francois) Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 225, 104963.
“An Institutional Perspective on the Economics of the Family" (with Chris Bidner) in Handbook of the Economics of the Family. Edited by Shelly Lundberg and Alessandra Voena. Elsevier, 2023, p. 443-500.
“Integrating Economic and Evolutionary Approaches to the Family: The Case of Polygynous Marriage” (with Chris Bidner) Evolutionary Human Sciences , 2022, 4, e52.
Innis Lecture: "Unbundling Female Empowerment" Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, 55(5): 1671-1701.
"Intimate Partner Violence and Female Property Rights" Nature Human Behaviour, 2021, 5: 1021-1026.
“Missing Unmarried Women” (with Debraj Ray) Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17(5): 1585-1616.
“Legal Origins and Female HIV” American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (6): 1407-39.
“Excess Female Mortality in Africa” (with Debraj Ray) in Towards Gender Equity in Development. Edited by Siwan Anderson, Lori Beaman, and Jean-Philippe Platteau. Oxford University Press, 2018, p. 384-401.
“Distress in Marathaland” (with Patrick Francois, Ashok Kotwal, and Ashwini Kulkarni) Economic and Political Weekly, 2016, L1(51): 14 -16.
“Property Rights over Marital Transfers” (with Chris Bidner) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130(3): 1421-1484.
“One Kind of Democracy: Implementing MGNREGS” (with Patrick Francois, Ashok Kotwal, and Ashwini Kulkarni) Economic and Political Weekly, 2015, L(26-27): 44-48.
Reprinted in: A Handbook of Rural India, Surinder S. Jodhka (ed.) Orient BlackSwan, Hyderabad, 2018: 195-203.“Clientelism in Indian Villages” (with Patrick Francois and Ashok Kotwal) American Economic Review, 2015, 105(6): 1780-1816.
“Suicide and Property Rights in India” (with Garance Genicot) Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 114: 64-78.
"Human capital effects of marriage payments" IZA World of Labor, 2014, 77.
“The Age Distribution of Missing Women in India” (with Debraj Ray) Economic and Political Weekly, 2012, XLVII(47-48): 87-95.
“Caste as an Impediment to Trade” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3: 239-263.
“Missing Women: Age and Disease” (with Debraj Ray) Review of Economic Studies, 2010, 77: 1262-1300.
“What determines female autonomy? Evidence from Bangladesh” (with Mukesh Eswaran) Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 90(2): 179-191.
“Enforcement in informal savings groups” (with Jean-Marie Baland and Karl Moene) Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 90(1): 14-23.
“Formalizing Informal Institutions: Theory and Evidence from a Kenyan Slum” (with Patrick Francois) in Institutions and Economic Growth. Edited by Elhanan Helpman , Harvard University Press, 2008, p. 409-451.
“The economics of dowry and brideprice” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21(4): 151-174.
“Why the marriage squeeze cannot cause dowry inflation” Journal of Economic Theory, 2007, 137(1): 140-152.
“Why dowry payments declined with modernization in Europe but are rising in India” Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 111: 269–310.
“The economics of ROSCAS and intra-household resource allocation” (with Jean-Marie Baland) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002, 117: 963-995.
“Environmental cleanliness as a public good: welfare and policy implications of non-convex preferences” (with Patrick Francois) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1997, 34: 256-274.