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Working Papers
Land
Acquisition for Industrialization and Compensation for Displaced Farmers,
(with Dilip Mookherjee), Working
Paper, October 2011.
New!
Motivating
Agents to Spread Information: The Role of Explicit Incentives and Social
Identity-Matching (with E.Berg, R. Manjula, D. Rajasekhar, Sanchari Roy). New!
Taxation and Regulation of Bonus Pay, (with Tim Besley), July 2011.New! (A less technical version was published in Vox)
Can Market Failure Cause Political Failure? (with Madhav Aney and Masismo Morelli), July 2011. New!
Contractual Structure and Endogenous Matching in Partnerships, (with Alexander Karaivanov), Working Paper, February 2011.
Trade and the Skill Premium Puzzle with Capital Market
Imperfections, (with Roberto Bonfatti),
Working Paper, November 2010.
Marry for What? Partner Selection in Modern India, (with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Jeanne Lafortune), Working Paper, November 2010.
Repayment
Frequency and Lending Contracts with Present-Biased Borrowers, (with Greg Fischer), Working Paper,
July 2010.
Credit Rationing, Wealth Inequality and Allocation of Talent, October 2002, (with Massimo Morelli and Tomas Sjostrom). STICERD Theoretical Economics Discussion Paper TE/2002/441.
Public-Private Partnership for the Provision of Public Goods: Theory and an Application to NGOs (with Tim Besley), August 1999, STICERD Development Economics Discussion Paper Series, DEDPS 17.
Gun
Control and the Self Defense Argument, Version:
January 2001.
Published Papers
Incentives and the de Soto Effect, (with Tim Besley and Kornad Burchardi), August 2011, Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics. New!
The Land Acquisition Bill: A
Critique and a Proposal, (with Parikshit Ghosh), Economic and Political Weekly of India, October 8, 2011, Vol. XLVI, No 41. New!
(Click here for a shorter
version).
Implementing
Health Insurance: The Rollout of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana
in Karnataka, (with Durgam, R.,
Berg, E., Manjula,R., and
Roy, S.), Economic
and Political Weekly of India, May 2011.
Thanks
for Nothing?
Not-for-Profits and Motivated Agents
(with Hannes Mueller), Journal of Public Economics, Volume 95, Issues 1-2, Pages 94-105, February 2011.
Spanning the Chasm: Uniting Theory and Empirics in Microfinance Research, (with Greg Fischer), in B. Armendariz and M. Labie (ed.s), Handbook of Microfinance, World Scientific, 2011.
Status
Incentives (with Tim Besley), Forthcoming, American Economic Review, Papers and
Proceedings, May 2008.
Reforming Public Service
Delivery, (with Tim Besley), in Journal of African Economics, Vol 16, AERC Supplement 1, p.
127-156, 2007.
Land Reform and
Agricultural Productivity in India: A Review of the Evidence (with Sanchari
Roy), Oxford Review of Economic Policy,
Vol. 23(2): India, Summer 2007.
Land
Reform, entry in The Oxford Companion to Economics in India edited by Kaushik Basu, Oxford
University Press, 2007.
Retailing Public Goods: The Economics of Corporate Social
Responsibility (with Tim Besley),
Journal
of Public Economics, Vol.
91, No. 9, p. 1645–1663, September 2007.
Wealth Inequality and Collective Action (with Pranab Bardhan and Alexander Karaivanov), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 91, No. 9, p. 1843–1874, September 2007.
Entrepreneurial Talent, Occupational Choice, and Trickle Up Policies (with Massimo Morelli and Tomas Sjostrom), Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 137, No. 1, November 2007.
Beyond Nandigram: Industrialization in West Bengal (with Abhijit Banerjee, Pranab Bardhan, Kaushik Basu, Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri, Ashok Guha, Mukul Majumdar, Dilip Mookherjee, and Debraj Ray), Economic and Political Weekly of India, April 28, 2007
Subcontractors for Tractors - Theory and Evidence on Flexible Specialization, Supplier Selection, and Contracting , (with Tahir Andrabi and Asim Ijaz Khwaja). Journal of Development Economics, April 2006.
Inequality and Collective Action, (with Pranab Bardhan and Alexander Karaivanov) in P. Bardhan, S. Bowles and J. M. Baland (ed.) Economic Inequality, Collective Action, and Environmental Sustainability, Princeton University Press, 2006.
Public Goods and Economic Development, (with Tim Besley) in Understanding Poverty, (ed.s) A. Banerjee, R. Benabou, and D. Mookherjee, editors, Oxford University Press: 2006.
Sorting with Motivated Agents: Implications for School Competition and Teacher Incentives, (with Tim Besley), Journal of the European Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings, 2006.
On Joint
Liability Lending and the Peer Selection Effect, (with S. Gangopadhyay and R. Lensink), Economic
Journal, October 2005.
Competition
and Incentives with Motivated Agents (with
Tim Besley), American Economic Review, June
2005.
Eviction Threats and Investment Incentives, (with Abhijit Banerjee) Journal of Development Economics, August 2004.
Incentives,
Choice and Accountability in the Provision of Public Services, (with Tim Besley),
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 19 (2): Financing and Managing Public Services.
Can Unobserved Heterogeneity in Farmer Ability Explain the Inverse Relationship between Farm Size and Productivity? (with Juliano Assuncao), Economics Letters, August 2003.
Strategy
for Economic Reform in West Bengal (with Abhijit Banerjee, Pranab Bardhan,
Kaushik Basu, Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri,
Ashok Guha, Mukul Majumdar, Dilip Mookherjee, and
Debraj Ray), Economic and Political Weekly of India, October 12, 2002.
A Simple Model of Inequality, Occupational Choice and Development, (with Nien-Huei Jiang). Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 69, No. 1, October 2002.
Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal, (with Abhijit Banerjee and Paul Gertler). Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 110, No. 2, April 2002.
Recent Reforms in the Panchayat System in West Bengal: Toward Greater Participatory Governance? (with Maitreya Ghatak). Economic and Political Weekly of India, Vol 37, No 1, January 5, 2002.
Financially Interlinked Business Groups (with Raja Kali) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Vol. 10, Issue 4, p. 591-619, Winter 2001.
Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods,
(with Tim Besley). Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Vol. 116, No. 4, p.1343 – 1372, November 2001.
Occupational Choice and Dynamic Incentives, (with Massimo Morelli and Tomas
Sjostrom).
Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 68, No. 4, October 2001 p.
Contract Choice in Agriculture with Joint Moral Hazard in Effort and Risk, (with Priyanka Pandey). Journal of Development Economics, Vol.63, No.2, December 2000.
Screening by the Company You
Keep: Joint Liability Lending and the Peer Selection Effect. Economic
Journal, Vol.110,
Issue 465, July 2000.
The Economics of Lending
with Joint Liability : Theory and Practice (with Timothy W. Guinnane). Journal
of Development Economics,
Vol.60, No.1, October 1999. Reprinted in Readings in the
Theory of Economic Development (ed.s) D.
Mookherjee and D. Ray, London: Blackwell (2000).
Group Lending, Local Information and Peer Selection. Journal of Development Economics, Vol.60, No.1, October 1999.
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