Recent Working Papers

 

Social Interactions and Segregation in Skill Accumulation, with Stefan Napel and Debraj Ray, September 2009.

Incentives in Hierarchies, for Handbook of Organizational Economics, R.Gibbons and J. Roberts, Ed.

The Political Economy of Debt Bondage, with Ulf Lilienfeld-Toal, revised June 2009

Inequality and Markets: Some Implications of Occupatonal Diversity, with Debraj Ray, revised June 2009.

Mechanism Design with Limited Communication: Implications for Decentralization with Masatoshi Tsumagari, revised June 2009

Middleman Margins and Globalization, with P Bardhan and M Tsumagari, revised version June 2009

Productivity Effects of Land Reform: A Study of Disaggregated Farm Data in West Bengal, India with P Bardhan, revised June 2009

State-Led or Market-Led Green Revolution? Role of Private Irrigation Investment vis-a-vis Local Government Programs in West Bengal's Farm Productivity Growth, with Pranab Bardhan and Neha Kumar, June 2009

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

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

Impact of Political Reservations in West Bengal Local Governments on Public Service Provision with Pranab Bardhan and Monica Parra Torrado, July 2008

Impact of Minority Reservations on Targeting in West Bengal Local Governments with Pranab Bardhan and Monica Parra Torrado, December 2005

Relative Capture of Local and Central Governments(Figures) with Pranab Bardhan, 2000

Expenditure Decentralization and the Delivery of Public Services in Developing Countries with Pranab Bardhan, 1998

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