Published Papers
Women Political Leaders, Corruption, and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Program in India (with Farzana Afridi and Vegard Iversen, Economic Development and Cultural Change)
Coverage: Ideas For IndiaLearning to Govern: The Impact of Politicians’ Peer Networks (with Apurva Bamezai, Siddharth George and Siddharth Hari)
Phase-1 Acceptance, Journal of Development Economics (Based on Pre-Results Review)
Working Papers
Something To Complain About: How Minority Representatives Overcome Ethnic Differences
(with Chinmaya Kumar)
Status: Under revisionCoverage: VoxDev, World Bank Development Impact Blog, ThePrint
The Distributional Consequences of Political Reservation
(with Chinmaya Kumar)
Status: Under revision.Coverage: Ideas for India
The Added Value of Local Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India
(with Abhishek Arora, Siddharth George and Vijayendra Rao)Who Becomes a Local Politician? Evidence from Rural India
(with Apurva Bamezai, Siddharth Geoge and Borui Sun)The Impact of Women’s Self Help Groups on Electoral Participation: Evidence from India
(with Iman Sen)
Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Democracies: A Review of Panchayati Raj in India
(with Siddharth George and Vijayendra Rao).
Forthcoming at the Cambridge Companion to Indian Politics and Society
BOOK CHAPTERs
Works in Progress
Affirmative Action, Attitudes and Social Networks: Evidence from Caste-Based Reservation in India (with Emily Breza and Arun Chandrashekhar)
Status: Fieldwork underway
Worker Collective Action and Public Service Delivery: Experimental Evidence from India (with Niharika Singh)
Status: Experiment underway
Local Taxation and Development Outcomes (with Abhishek Arora, Siddharth George, Vijayendra Rao)
Status: Draft in preparation
Estimating Covid Mortality in Bihar (with Apurva Bamezai, Aashish Gupta and Harsha Thirumurthy)
Status: Draft available upon requestTargeting the ultra-poor to improve livelihoods (with Jyoti Mukhopadhyay and Shagun Sabharwal)
Status: Experiment underwayThe General Equilibrium Effects of Affirmative Action in Public Service (with Siddharth George and Shivani Pandey)
Status: Draft in preparation
Making the Bihar Caste Census Better, The India Forum, 2023
Dispute resolution mechanisms in Bihar (with Sabyasachi Das), Seminar, 2023
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan: Rationed Funds and their allocation across villages (with Himanshu and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay), Economic and Political Weekly, 2015
Identifying BPL Households: A Comparison of Competing Approaches, Economic and Political Weekly, 2011, pp.256-262
Survey evidence of excess mortality in Bihar in the second COVID-19 surge
(with Apurva Bamezai, Murad Banaji, Aashish Gupta, Shivani Pandey, Kanika Sharma, and Chanchal Kumar Singh)