Published papers

Do Mandatory Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets, with Sahil Gandhi, Anupam Nanda and Nandini Agnihotri)

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


Nature: Scientific Reports (2024), 14, 2091

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

      Journal of Development Economics (2023), 164.

VoxDev   

Infrastructure, enforcement and COVID-19 in Mumbai slums: A first look, with Gandhi, S., Patranabis, S., Bettencourt, L., and Malani, A.  

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

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

BMJ Open (2021), 11(10).

Media Mention(s): New York Times

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

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

Media Mentions: Financial Times 

Journal of Asian Economics 2019, 60, 69-84. (ungated version here)

Media Mentions: Business world


Decline of rental housing in India: the case of Mumbai with Patel, S., Gandhi, S., Pethe, A., & Agarwal, K.

Environment and Urbanization (2016), 28(1), 259-274. (NYU Marron Institute working paper here)

Re-thinking urban planning in India with Pethe, A., Nallathiga, R., & Gandhi, S.

Cities (2014), 39, 120-132. 

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

Anatomy of ownership and management of public land in Mumbai with Pethe, A., Gandhi, S., & Libeiro, S. 

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

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

Working papers

with Sahil Gandhi, Matthew Kahn (USC), Rajat Kochhar (USC), and Somik Lall (WB). NBER WP. 

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 

with Anup Malani, Satej Soman, Sam Asher, Paul Novosad, Clement Imbert, Jonathan Gruber, et al. NBER WP.

Papers in progress


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

   with Sahil Gandhi and Geetika Nagpal


The impact of urban floods on housing markets: Evidence from Mumbai (data analysis stage)

with Thomas Bearpark, Amine Ouazad, and Ashwin Rode

Other Publications

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

Economic and Political Weekly (2014), 55-61

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

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