Research

Publications

  1. “An Indian Enigma? Labour Market Impacts of the World’s Largest Livelihoods Program” (with A. Deshpande and D. Walia), Journal of Population Economics, 2024

  2. “The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents” (with M. Freedman and D. Neumark), Journal of Urban Economics: Insights, 2023

  3. “Combining Rules and Discretion in Economic Development Policy: Evidence on the Impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit” (with M. Freedman and D. Neumark), Journal of Public Economics, 2023

  4. “Can Weak Ties Create Social Capital? Evidence from Self-Help Groups in Rural India” (with A. Deshpande), World Development, 2021

  5. “Gender Discrimination in Hiring: An Experimental Re-examination of the Swedish Case” (with A. Ahmed and M. Granberg), PLOS One, 2021

  6. “Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on MSMEs: Evidence from a Primary Firm Survey in India” (with U. Rathore), Economic and Political Weekly, 2021

  7. “Salary History Bans and Wage Bargaining: Experimental Evidence”, Labour Economics, 2020

  8. “Bad Karma or Discrimination?  Male-Female Wage Gaps Among Salaried Workers In India” (with A. Deshpande and D. Goel), World Development, 2018

  9. “Decomposition analysis of earnings inequality in rural India: 2004 – 2012” (with D. Goel, and R. Morissette), IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2016

In Progress

  • “Firm Responses to Hiring and Investment Subsidies: Regression Discontinuity from the California Competes Tax Credit” (with B. Hyman, M. Freedman and D. Neumark)
    NBER WP 30664, 2023 Version