WORKING PAPERS

Why Guarantee Employment? Evidence from a Large Indian Public-Works Program (Job Market Paper)

Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development (with Gaurav Khanna)

Remember When It Rained: The Elusiveness of Gender Discrimination in Indian School Enrollment, IZA Discussion Paper No. 6833 (September 2012)

It's a Boy! Women and Non-Monetary Benefits from a Son in India, IZA Discussion Paper No. 6847 (September 2012)

Demographic Challenges Facing the Elderly in Sub-Saharan Africa (with David Lam and Rebecca Thornton)

Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process (with Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann), IZA Discussion Paper No. 2350 (September 2006) 

WORK IN PROGRESS

Jai Ho? The Impact of a Large Public-Works Program on the Government's Election Performance in India

Rainfall Shocks in Indonesia (with Raj Arunachalam)

Intra-Household Gender Discrimination in India

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Public Works and Maoist Violence in India, forthcoming in Economics of Peace and Security Journal (with Gaurav Khanna)  

Public-Works Programs in Developing Countries, forthcoming in IZA World of Labor

Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation in India,  Journal of Development Studies, 48(1): 151-163, 2012

Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants, Economics Letters, 98(3): 235-239, 2008 (with Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, and Klaus F. Zimmermann)

Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants, International Migration Review, 41(3): 769-781, 2007 (with Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann)