Working Papers

 

Misallocation Implications of Security and Collateral Value of Land, with Maitreesh Ghatak, April 2024. Slides

Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition based Evidence from an Indian State, with Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra and Sujata Visaria, January 2024.

How Do Voters Respond to Welfare Programs vis-a-vis Infrastructure Programs? Evidence for Clientelism in West Bengal, with Pranab Bardhan, Sandip Mitra, and Anusha Nath, January 2024. Online Appendix.

Community Networks, Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development with Ruochen Dai, Kaivan Munshi and Xiabo Zhang, December 2023. Slides

Revisiting the Eswaran-Kotwal Model of Tenancy with Maitreesh Ghatak, December 2023.