Published Papers

PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING

Forthcoming, Coordinating Development: Can Income-based Incentive Schemes Eliminate Pareto Inferior Equilibria?

(joint with Philip Bond) 2006, Journal of Development Economics

Forthcoming, Dams (joint with Esther Duflo) 2006, Quarterly Journal of Economics

Forthcoming, Profits and Politics: Coordinating Technology Adoption in Agriculture
Journal of Development Economics

Forthcoming, Institutions and Development: A View from Below
(joint with Christopher Udry, to appear in the Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society, edited by R. Blundell, W. Newey, and T. Persson, Cambridge University Press) 2005

Participatory Democracy in Action: Survey Evidence from India (joint with Tim Besley and Vijayendra Rao)
Journal of the European Economics Association Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 3 (2-3), pp. 648-657, April-May 2005

Banking for the Poor: Evidence from India (joint with Robin Burgess and Grace Wong)
Journal of the European Economics Association Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 3 (2-3), pp. 268-278, April-May 2005

Can Rural Banks Reduce Poverty? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment [Appendix] (joint with Robin Burgess)
American Economic Review, June 2005 [Longer version]

Unmarried Parenthood and Redistributive Politics (joint with Lena Edlund and Laila Haider)
Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 3(1), pp.95-119, March 2005

The Politics of Public Good Provision: Evidence from Indian Local Governments (joint with Timothy Besley, Lupin Rahman and Vijayendra Rao)
Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 2 (2-3), pp. 416-426, April-May 2004

Can Mandated Political Representation Provide Disadvantaged Minorities Policy Influence? Theory and Evidence from India
American Economic Review, Vol. 93(4), pp.1132-1151, September 2003

Why Have Women Become Left-Wing? The Political Gender Gap and the Decline in Marriage (joint with Lena Edlund)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 117, pp.917-961, August 2002

WORKING PAPERS

Political Selection and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India
(joint with Timothy Besley and Vijayendra Rao) 2005

Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption (joint with Abhijit Banerjee), 2006

Read My Lips: The Political Economy of Information Transmission
(joint with Timothy Besley) STICERD Theoretical Economics Discussion Paper, July 1999.

Comments and Shorter Notes

ABCDE review
Book review, Forthcoming Journal of Economic Literature, June 2006

Comment on `Does Food Aid Harm the Poor? Household Evidence from Ethiopia'
Forthcoming in "Globalization and Poverty", Edited by Ann Harrison University of Chicago Press

Large Dams in India
Entry for The [Oxford] Companion to Economics in India, Edited by Kaushik Basu, Oxford University Press

Rural Credit
Entry for The [Oxford] Companion to Economics in India, Edited by Kaushik Basu, Oxford University Press