Culture & Development

  1. The Cycle of Hate and What We Can Do About it, (With V. Esses, A. Harell, M. Lowe, HE Markus, A. Mills, M. Rao, S. Reicher, and P. Singh), World Bank Policy Research Paper, February 2026
  2. “Who should be at the Top of Bottom-Up Development: A Case-Study of the NRLM in Rajasthan, India,” (with Shareen Joshi), March 2017
  1. “Recasting Culture to Undo Gender: A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India,” (with Shruti Majumdar and Paromita Sanyal), September 2015
  2. “The Anatomy of Failure: Integrating Ethnography with a Randomized Control Trial to Evaluate an Attempt to Deepen Democracy in Rural India,” (with Kripa Ananthpur and Kabir Malik), March 2014
  3. “Conducting Ethical Economic Research: Complications from the Field,” (with Harold Alderman and Jishnu Das),Oxford Handbook on Professional Economic Ethics, George Demartino and Dierdre McCloskey, editors, Oxford University Press, 2013
  4. “Dignity Through Discourse: Poverty and the Culture of Deliberation in Indian Village Democracies,” (with Paromita Sanyal), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 629, pp:146-172, May 2010
  5. “Symbolic Public Goods and The Coordination of Collective Action: A Comparison of Local Development in India and Indonesia,” Chapter 10 in Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray (editors) Contested Commons: Conversations Between Economists and Anthropologists, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2008
  6.  “The Determinants of Gender Equity in India: Examining Dyson and Moore’s Thesis with New Data” (joint with Lupin Rahman), Population and Development Review,  30(2), Pp: 239-268, June 2004
  7. Culture and Public Action(with Mike Walton), Stanford University Press, 2004
  8.  “Conclusion,” (With Michael Walton), Chapter 16 in Culture and Public Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy, (Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton, editors) Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004
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  1. “Culture and Public Action: Relationality, Equality of Agency and Development,” (with Michael Walton), Chapter 1 inCulture and Public Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy, (Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton, editors) Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004
  2.  “Statistical Discrimination and Social Assimilation,” (with Francis Bloch), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 10, #2 , 2001
  3. ”Poverty and Public Celebrations in Rural India,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,” Vol. 573, Pp: 85-104, 2001
  4. “Can Economics Mediate the Link Between Anthropology and Demography?” Population and Development Review, Vol. 23 #4, Pp:833-38,  December 1997