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Working Papers

2023

1. In-Group Bias in the Indian Judiciary: Evidence from 5 Million Criminal Cases
   Working Papers, Center for Global Development
2. Measuring Gender and Religious Bias in the Indian Judiciary
   Working Papers, HAL
   Also in TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) (2022) View citations (2)

2022

3. The Long-Run Development Impacts of Agricultural Productivity Gains: Evidence from Irrigation Canals in India
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

2021

4. Development Research at High Geographic Resolution: An Analysis of Night Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India Using the SHRUG Open Data Platform
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (30)
   See also Journal Article Development Research at High Geographic Resolution: An Analysis of Night-Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India Using the SHRUG Open Data Platform, The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank (2021) View citations (30) (2021)

2020

5. Adaptive Control of COVID-19 Outbreaks in India: Local, Gradual, and Trigger-based Exit Paths from Lockdown
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
6. One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (8)
   Also in Framed Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website (2010) View citations (2)
   Working Papers, University of Namur, Department of Economics (2011) View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?, Management Science, INFORMS (2020) View citations (6) (2020)

2018

7. Partial Identification of Expectations with Interval Data
   Papers, arXiv.org
8. The Ecological Footprint of Transportation Infrastructure
   2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (4)

2016

9. Classification Trees for Heterogeneous Moment-Based Models
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)

2009

10. One Step at a Time: Do Threshold Patterns Matter in Public Good Provision?
    Economics Discussion Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) View citations (3)

2008

11. Do threshold patterns matter in public good provision?
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany

Journal Articles

2023

1. Rent-Seeking and Criminal Politicians: Evidence from Mining Booms
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105, (1), 20-39 View citations (11)

2022

2. Big, Open Data for Development: A Vision for India
   India Policy Forum, 2022, 18, (1), 1-52 View citations (3)
3. Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14, (4), 1-34 View citations (4)

2021

4. Development Research at High Geographic Resolution: An Analysis of Night-Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India Using the SHRUG Open Data Platform
   The World Bank Economic Review, 2021, 35, (4), 845-871 View citations (30)
   See also Working Paper Development Research at High Geographic Resolution: An Analysis of Night Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India Using the SHRUG Open Data Platform, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2021) View citations (30) (2021)

2020

5. Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12, (1), 348-76 View citations (73)
6. One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?
   Management Science, 2020, 66, (1), 113-129 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?, Papers (2020) View citations (8) (2020)
7. Rural Roads and Local Economic Development
   American Economic Review, 2020, 110, (3), 797-823 View citations (153)
8. The Ecological Impact of Transportation Infrastructure
   The Economic Journal, 2020, 130, (629), 1173-1199 View citations (35)

2017

9. Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9, (1), 229-73 View citations (119)