Gender

Group of women, Bidar district, Karnataka

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Safety Nets and Natural Disaster Mitigation: Evidence from Hurricane Phailin in Odisha (with Paul Christian, Eeeshani Kandpal, and Nethra Palaniswamy), March 2018
Deliberative Inequality: A Text-As-Data Study of India’s Village Assemblies (with Ramya Parthasarathy and Nethra Palaniswamy), June 2017
Unheard Voices: The Challenge of Inducing Women’s Civic Speech (with Ramya Parthasarathy and Nethra Palaniswamy), June 2017
Are Caste Categories Misleading? The Relationship between Gender and Jati in Three Indian States (with Shareen Joshi and Nishtha Kochhar), June 2017
On the Frontlines of Scaling-Up: A Qualitative Analysis of Implementation Challenges in Rural India (with Shruti Majumdar and Paromita Sanyal), April 2017
Relief from Usury: Impact of a Community-Based Microcredit Program in Rural India (with V. Hoffmann, V. Surendra, and U. Datta), April 2017
Oral Democracy and Women’s Oratory Competency in Indian Village Assemblies: A Qualitative Analysis (with Paromita Sanyal and Umang Prabhakar), October 2015
Recasting Culture to Undo Gender: A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India (with Shruti Majumdar and Paromita Sanyal), September 2015
“Sex Work” (With Manisha Shah) in Kaushik Basu and Annemie Maertens (edited), Oxford Companion to Economics in India, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi (2011)
“Tokenism vs. Agency? The Impact of Women’s Reservations on Village Democracies in South India,” (with Radu Ban) Economic Development and Cultural Change, February 2009
“Dowries” in Kaushik Basu (edited) Oxford Companion to Economics in India, Oxford University Press, Delhi (2006 and 2011)
“Wedding Celebrations as Conspicuous Consumption: Signaling Social Status in Rural India,” (with Francis Bloch and Sonalde Desai), Journal of Human Resources, Volume XXXIX, Number 3, Summer 2004
“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
“Sex Workers and The Cost of Safe Sex: The Compensating Differential for Condom Use in Calcutta,” (Lead Author, with Indrani Gupta, Michael Lokshin and Smarajit Jana),” Journal of Development Economics, 71, Pp: 585-603, August 2003.
“Terror as a Bargaining Instrument: A Case Study of Dowry Violence in Rural India,” (with Francis Bloch), American Economic Review, Vol 92, #4, Pp: 1029-1043, September 2002
“Poverty and Public Celebrations in Rural India,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,” Vol. 573, Pp: 85-104, 2001
“The Marriage Squeeze Interpretation of Dowry Inflation – Response,” Journal of Political Economy, December, 2000
“The Demand for Dowries and Bride Characteristics in Marriage: Empirical Estimates for Rural South-Central India,” (with Anil Deolalikar, Univ. of Washington), in Gender, Population, and Development, M.Krishnaraj, R.Sudarshan, A.Sharif (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1998

Village Council President, South Kanara, Karnataka

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