Vaidehi Tandel - Research

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.

Contribution of infection and vaccination to population-level seroprevalence through two COVID waves in Tamil Nadu, India (with T. S. Selvavinayagam, Anup Malani and authors from Govt of Tamil Nadu)

Nature: Scientific Reports (2024), 14, 2091

Women's right to property and the quantity-quality trade-off of children: Evidence from India (with Arnab Dutta, Sahil Gandhi, and Ashwini Narayanan)

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

Building networks: Investigating the quid pro quo between local politicians & developers, with Alex Tabarrok and Sahil Gandhi,

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.

Brookings Institution blog.

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

Representative Estimates of COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rates from Four Locations in India with Cai, R., Novosad, P., Asher, S., and Malani, A.

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

What’s in a definition? A study on the suitability of the current urban definition in India through its employment guarantee programme with Hiranandani, K, & Kapoor,M.

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.

Vulnerabilities of Institutional Checks in Indian Federalism: The Case of the Adarsh Society Scam in Mumbai with Gandhi, S., Libeiro, S. J., & Marpakwar, C.

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.

Understanding issues related to polycentric governance in the Mumbai metropolitan region with Pethe, A., & Gandhi, S.

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

Working papers

Adapting to Flood Risk: Evidence from a Panel of Global Cities [New Draft!] Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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

NBER working paper here

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

Adaptive Control of COVID-19 Outbreaks in India: Local, Gradual, and Trigger-based Exit Paths from Lockdown

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

(Funding secured from IGC Cities 2024)

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

with Thomas Bearpark, Amine Ouazad, and Ashwin Rode

(Funding secured from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada 2026)