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Working Papers

2018

1. A Policy of Credit Disruption: The Punjab Land Alienation Act of 1900
   Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College

2015

2. Off the Rails: Is State Ownership Bad for Productivity?
   Working Papers, University of California-Irvine, Department of Economics View citations (7)
   See also Journal Article Off the rails: Is state ownership bad for productivity?, Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier (2015) View citations (6) (2015)
3. Tertiary Education and Prosperity: Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
4. The Growth Contribution of Colonial Indian Railways in Comparative Perspective
   CEH Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic History, Research School of Economics, Australian National University View citations (3)

2013

5. Religious Identity and the Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the Indian Princely States
   Working Papers, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute View citations (7)

2012

6. Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (26)
   See also Journal Article Big BRICs, weak foundations: The beginning of public elementary education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier (2012) View citations (26) (2012)
7. The Labor Market Returns to a For-Profit College Education
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (12)
   See also Journal Article The labor market returns to a for-profit college education, Economics of Education Review, Elsevier (2014) View citations (36) (2014)

2010

8. The state and scope of the economic history of developing regions
   ANU Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics, Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics View citations (3)
   Also in Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics (2010) View citations (2)

Journal Articles

2015

1. Does history matter? Colonial education investments in India
   Economic History Review, 2015, 68, (3), 937-961 View citations (24)
2. Off the rails: Is state ownership bad for productivity?
   Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43, (4), 997-1013 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Off the Rails: Is State Ownership Bad for Productivity?, Working Papers (2015) View citations (7) (2015)

2014

3. The labor market returns to a for-profit college education
   Economics of Education Review, 2014, 43, (C), 125-140 View citations (36)
   See also Working Paper The Labor Market Returns to a For-Profit College Education, NBER Working Papers (2012) View citations (12) (2012)

2013

4. Engines of Growth: The Productivity Advance of Indian Railways, 1874–1912
   The Journal of Economic History, 2013, 73, (2), 339-370 View citations (18)

2012

5. Big BRICs, weak foundations: The beginning of public elementary education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China
   Explorations in Economic History, 2012, 49, (2), 221-240 View citations (26)
   See also Working Paper Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, NBER Working Papers (2012) View citations (26) (2012)
6. Financing India's imperial railways, 1875-1914
   Business History, 2012, 54, (5), 813-815
7. Regulation, Ownership, and Costs: A Historical Perspective from Indian Railways
   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, 4, (1), 28-57 View citations (9)

2011

8. Company of Kinsmen: Enterprise and Community in South Asian History, 1700–1940. By Tirthankar Roy. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii, 252. $99.00, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2011, 71, (3), 817-819
9. Reading, writing, and religion: Institutions and human capital formation
   Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 39, (1), 17-33 View citations (53)

2010

10. Land revenues, schools and literacy
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2010, 47, (2), 179-204 View citations (7)
11. Taxation and educational development: Evidence from British India
    Explorations in Economic History, 2010, 47, (3), 279-293 View citations (3)

2009

12. Determinants of Primary Schooling in British India
    The Journal of Economic History, 2009, 69, (1), 269-302 View citations (39)
13. Education inputs, student performance and school finance reform in Michigan
    Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28, (1), 90-98 View citations (21)

2007

14. Essays on Education and Social Divisions in Colonial India
    The Journal of Economic History, 2007, 67, (2), 500-503 View citations (1)