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Publications

De Jure versus De Facto Transparency: Corruption in Local Public Office in India (with Dahyeon Jeong and Laura Zimmermann)
Accepted, Journal of Public Economics
Version: 13 January 2023
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The Political Consequences of Resource Scarcity: Targeted Spending in a Water-Stressed Democracy (with Meera Mahadevan)
Forthcoming, Journal of Public Economics
Version: 8 February 2023
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The Targeting and Impact of Partisan Gerrymandering: Evidence from a Legislative Discontinuity (with Dahyeon Jeong)
Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics
Version: 31 January 2022
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Estimating the Production Function Under Input Market Frictions
Review of Economics and Statistics
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September 2021, 104(4): 666-679
Old title: "Estimating the Production Function When Firms Are Constrained"
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Does Insecure Land Tenure Deter Investment? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (with Heather Huntington)
Journal of Development Economics
May 2021, 150: 102632
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God is in the Rain: The Impact of Rainfall-Induced Early Social Distancing on COVID-19 Outbreaks (with Rolly Kapoor, Haedong Rho, Kinpritma Sangha, Bhavyaa Sharma, and Guanghong Xu)
Journal of Health Economics
January 2022, 81: 102575
This article has open access thanks to generous support from the UC Library
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The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Policies (with Teevrat Garg)
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
August 2021, 103(4):1239-1250
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Can the Party in Power Systematically Win a Majority in Close Legislative Elections? Evidence from U.S. State Assemblies (with Dahyeon Jeong)
Journal of Politics
April 2022, 84(2): 1149-1164
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Risky Income or Lumpy Investments? Evidence on Two Theories of Under-Specialization
Economic Development and Cultural Change
July 2018, 66 (4): 629-671
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Regional Development through Place-Based Policies: Evidence from a Spatial Discontinuity
Journal of Development Economics
January 2018, 130: 173-189
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Market Failures and Misallocation
Journal of Development Economics
September 2017, 128: 65-80
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Poverty Traps, Convergence, and the Dynamics of Household Income (with Raj Arunachalam)
Journal of Development Economics
May 2017, 126: 215-230
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Working Papers

Political Organizations and Political Scope (with Laura Zimmermann)
Version: 2 August 2023
Formerly circulated as: The Workforce of Clientelism: The Case of Local Officials in the Party Machine
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Work in Progress

Measuring and Transferring Retail Productivity (with Heather Huntington and Brenda Samaniego de la Parra)

Raising Retail Productivity through Data Pooling (with Jie Bai and David Sungho Park)

A Model of Imperfectly Managed Production

Estimating Non-Neutral Productivity Under Input Market Frictions

Political Misallocation of Electricity in India (with Meera Mahadevan and Bhavyaa Sharma)

















Last Updated: 4 September 2023