Ph.D. (Boston)
Area of Specialization:Economic Development, Political Economy, Public Economics

Papers:

• "School Heterogeneity, Human Capital Accumulation,and Standards" Journal of Public Economics,March 1998 pages 369-397.
  
  
• "A Simple Model of Voice" with Abhijit Banerjee,Quarterly Journal of Economics,February 2001, 116(1), pages 189-228.
  
  
• "Inequality and Segregation" with Rajiv Sethi ,Journal of Political Economy, December 2004.
  
• "History, social divisions and public goods in rural India" with A. Banerjee, L. Iyer, Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May 2005, 3(2-3) , 639-47.
  
• "Caste, Community and Collective Action: The Political Economy of Public Good Provision in India" with Abhijit Banerjee.
  
  
• "Patronage in Public Administration: PresidentialConnections, Position Assignments and the Performance of the Korean PublicProsecutors, 1992-2000" with Nowook Park.
  
  
• "Quantifying Misallocation in Public Goods: The Caseof Post Offices in South India" forthcoming, Economics Letters (with Siva Athreya).
  
  
• "Poverty Targeting in Public Programs: A Comparison of some nonparametric tests and their application to Indian Microfinance" with Isha Dewan, May 2007.
  
  
• "Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet?:Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990s" with EliBerman and Hong Tan.
  
  
• "The Effects of Open Enrollment Plans on SchoolComposition and Student Attainment: A Theoretical Analysis with Evidencefrom Massachusetts."
  
  
• "The Measurement of RacialSegregation" with Rajiv Sethi.
  
  
• The Assumptions and The Arithmetic of Caste-Based Reservations, Economic and Political Weekly, June 17, 2006, 2436-2438.
  
  
• "The Political Economy of Public Goods: Some Evidence from India" (with Abhijit Banerjee),
  Journal of Development Economics, volume 82, number 2, 2007, 287-314.
  
  
• “Poverty and Exclusion”, forthcoming,  Kaushik Basu (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Economics in India.
  
• "Public Action for  Public Goods", forthcoming in T. Paul Schultz (ed) 
  Handbook of Agricultural Economics vol. IV (with A. Banerjee, L. Iyer)
  

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