Recent Working Papers

 

 

Educational Signaling, Credit Constraints and Income Distribution Dynamics with Marcello d'Amato, June 2008

Aspirations, Segregation and Occupational Choice with Debraj Ray and Stefan Napel, May 2008

A Dynamic Incentive-Based Argument for Conditional Transfers with Debraj Ray, May 2008

Mechanism Design with Limited Communication: Implications for Decentralization with Mastaoshi Tsumagari, April 2008

Local Democracy in West Bengal: Political Participation and Targeting of Public Services, with P Bardhan, S. Mitra and A. Sarkar, February 2008

Forests to the People: Decentralization and Forest Degradation in the Indian Himalayas, with JM Baland, P Bardhan, and S. Das, March 2008

The Political Economy of Debt Bondage, with Ulf Lilienfeld-Toal, January 2008

A General Equilibrium Analysis of Personal Bankruptcy Law with Ulf Lilienfeld-Toal, January 2008

Land Reform and Farm Productivity in West Bengal with P Bardhan, Sept 2007

Middleman Margins and Globalization, with P Bardhan and M Tsumagari, June 2007

The Environmental Impact of Poverty: Evidence from Firewood Collection in Rural Nepal Revised, June 2007. Figures

Occupational Diversity and Endogenous Inequality with Debraj Ray (2006). Revised Version 2007 June 2007

Ownership Form and Contractual Inefficiency: Comparing Performance of Cooperatives and Private Factories in the Indian Sugar Industry with Sanghamitra Das, 2007. For earlier (2005) version click here.

Ideology vs. Competition in Redistributive Politics: Land Reform in West Bengal, 2007 (previous title: Political Economy of Land Reform in West Bengal)

Impact of Minority Reservations on Targeting in West Bengal Local Governments December 2005

Relative Capture of Local and Central Governments(Figures) 2000

Expenditure Decentralization and the Delivery of Public Services in Developing Countries 1998

Contractual Constraints on Firm Performance in Developing Countries(Figures) 1998