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Working Papers

2017

1. Poverty traps, convergence, and the dynamics of household income
   Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz View citations (12)
   Also in Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz (2017) View citations (12)
   See also Journal Article Poverty traps, convergence, and the dynamics of household income, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2017) View citations (12) (2017)

2010

2. The Prostitute's Allure: Examining Returns to Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

2008

3. Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (15)
   See also Journal Article Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Taylor & Francis Journals (2014) View citations (12) (2014)

2006

4. On the Heterogeneity of Dowry Motives
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (20)
   See also Journal Article On the heterogeneity of dowry motives, Journal of Population Economics, Springer (2016) View citations (14) (2016)

Journal Articles

2018

1. Height, Income and Voting
   British Journal of Political Science, 2018, 48, (4), 1027-1051 View citations (6)

2017

2. Poverty traps, convergence, and the dynamics of household income
   Journal of Development Economics, 2017, 126, (C), 215-230 View citations (12)
   See also Working Paper Poverty traps, convergence, and the dynamics of household income, Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series (2017) View citations (12) (2017)

2016

3. On the heterogeneity of dowry motives
   Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29, (1), 135-166 View citations (14)
   Also in Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29, (1), 135-166 (2016) View citations (13)
   See also Working Paper On the Heterogeneity of Dowry Motives, NBER Working Papers (2006) View citations (20) (2006)

2014

4. Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?
   Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2014, 47, (2), 81-94 View citations (12)
   See also Working Paper Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?, NBER Working Papers (2008) View citations (15) (2008)

2013

5. Compensated for Life: Sex Work and Disease Risk
   Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48, (2) View citations (22)

2012

6. The Prostitute's Allure: The Return to Beauty in Commercial Sex Work
   The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12, (1), 27 View citations (21)

2008

7. Prostitutes and Brides?
   American Economic Review, 2008, 98, (2), 516-22 View citations (32)