Publications

Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India (with Paul Novosad) January 2017, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Working Papers

Rural Roads and Structural Transformation (with Paul Novosad)

Rent-Seeking and Criminal Politicians: Evidence from Mining Booms (with Paul Novosad)

Estimating Intergenerational Mobility with Coarse Data: A Nonparametric Approach (with Paul Novosad and Charlie Rafkin)

Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction (with Anjali Adukia and Paul Novosad)

Classification Trees for Heterogeneous Moment-Based Models (with Denis Nekipelov, Paul Novosad and Stephen P. Ryan) NBER Working Paper No. 22976

The Impacts of Local Control over Political Institutions: Evidence from State Splitting in India (with Paul Novosad)

Work in Progress

The Cost of Distance: Geography and Governance in Rural India (with Karan Nagpal and Paul Novosad)

The Cost of Road Construction in Tanzania (with Martina Kirchberger and Paul Novosad)

Digging for Development: Economic Impacts of Mining Booms (with Paul Novosad)

The Impact of Agricultural Output on Local Economic Activity in India (with Paul Novosad)