Rohini Somanathan : Publications
- “Aid and Agency in Africa: Explaining Food Disbursements Across Ethiopian Households, 1994-2004,” (with Nzinga Broussard and Stefan Dercon), Journal of Development Economics, Volume 108, May 2014, 128-137.
- “Repayment incentives and the distribution of gains from group lending” (with Jean-Marie Baland and Zaki Wahhaj), Journal of Development Economics, Volume 105, November 2013, 131-139.
- “Back on the Rails: Competition and Productivity Change in State-owned Industry” with Sanghamitra Das, Kala Krishna and Sergey Lychagin, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5(1), January 2013, 136-162.
- “The application of nonparametric tests to poverty targeting’’ with Isha Dewan, Economics Letters, volume 113(1), October 2011.
- “Climate Change: Challenges Facing India’s Poor’’ with E. Somanathan, Economic and Political Weekly, volume 44 No. 31 August 01 – August 07, 2009.
- “Racial Inequality and Segregation Measures: Some Evidence from the 2000 Census’’ with Rajiv Sethi, The Review of Black Political Economy, Volume 36, Issue2 , 2009
- “Mapping Indian Districts Across Census Years, 1971-2001” with Hemanshu Kumar, Economic and Political Weekly , 36(9), 2009, 783–792.
- “Microfinance Lifespans: A Study of Attrition and Exclusion in Self-Help Groups in India’’ with Jean-Marie Baland and Lore Vandewalle, India Policy Forum, July 2008.
- “Quantifying Misallocation In Centrally Provided Public Goods.” with Siva Athreya, Economics Letters, volume 98(2), 2008, pp. 201-206.
- “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” in The Oxford Companion to Economics in India, Kaushik Basu (ed.) Oxford University Press, February, 2007.
- “Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990s.” with Eli Berman and Hong Tan, forthcoming, Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, special issue in honor of Zvi Grilliches, 2006
- “The assumptions and arithmetic of caste-based reservations, Economic and Political Weekly, June 17, 2006, 2436-2438.
- “History, social divisions and public goods in rural India” with Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer, Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May 2005, 3(2-3) , 639-47.
- “Inequality and Segregation”, with Rajiv Sethi, Journal of Political Economy, volume 112, number 6, December 2004.
- “A Simple Model of Voice”, with Abhijit Banerjee, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2001.
- “School Heterogeneity, Human Capital Accumulation, and Standards.” Journal of Public Economics, March 1998 pages 369-397.