How Do Voters Respond to Welfare vis-à-vis Public Good Programs? An Empirical Test for Clientelism | February 2024 | with Pranab Bardhan, Sandip Mitra and Dilip Mookherjee forthcoming at Quantitative Economics [pdf] [online appendix]
Peer Effects in College Applications| October 2023| with Katarína Borovičková, Angela Crema, and Abby Holm [pdf]
Minimum Wages and Labor Markets in the Twin Cities | August 2023| with Loukas Karabarbounis and Jeremy Lise under review [pdf] [slides]
Clientelistic Politics and Pro-Poor Targeting: Rules versus Discretionary Budgets | 2023 | with Dilip Mookherjee World Development 166: 106206 [pdf]
The Effect of Constitutional Provisions on Education Policy and Outcomes | April 2021 | with Scott Dallman and Filip Premik Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Staff Report 623 [pdf] [executive summary]
Bureaucrats and Politicians: How Does Electoral Competition Affect Bureaucratic Performance? | January 2015 | IED Working Paper 269, Boston University [pdf]
Political Competition and Elite Capture of Local Public Goods | June 2014 [pdf]
Changing Voting Patterns in Rural West Bengal: Role of Clientelism and Local Public Goods | March 2014 | Economic and Political Weekly, Vol-XLIX No. 11, (with Pranab Bardhan, Sandip Mitra and Dilip Mookherjee [pdf]
Land Acquisition and Compensation: What Really Happened in Singur? | May 2013 | Economic and Political Weekly, Vol-XLVII No. 21 | with Maitreesh Ghatak, Sandip Mitra and Dilip Mookherjee [pdf]
Sources of Corporate profits in India - Business Dynamism or Advantages of Entrenchment? | January 2011 | Brookings India Policy Forum 2011 Vol. VII | with Ashoka Mody and Michael Walton [pdf]
REPORTS AND POLICY BRIEFS
2023 Economic Impact Evaluation of the City of Minneapolis’s Minimum Wage Ordinance | May 2023 | with Loukas Karabarbounis and Jeremy Lise [pdf]
2023 Economic Impact Evaluation of the City of Saint Paul’s Minimum Wage Ordinance | May 2023 | with Loukas Karabarbounis and Jeremy Lise [pdf]
2021 Economic Impact Evaluation of the City of Minneapolis’s Minimum Wage Ordinance | November 2021 | with Loukas Karabarbounis and Jeremy Lise [pdf]
2021 Economic Impact Evaluation of the City of Saint Paul’s Minimum Wage Ordinance | November 2021 | with Loukas Karabarbounis and Jeremy Lise [pdf]
The Saint Paul Minimum Wage Increase Baseline Report | September 2020 | with Loukas Karabarbounis and Jeremy Lise [pdf]
Education Clauses in State Constitutions Across the United States | January 2020 | with Scott Dallman [pdf]
A Statewide Crisis: Minnesota’s Education Achievement Gaps | October 2019 | with Rob Grunewald [pdf]
The Minneapolis Minimum Wage Increase Baseline Report | September 2018 | with Loukas Karabarbounis and Jeremy Lise [pdf]
Indian Growth: Pro-business or Pro-market? | November 2011 | voxeu | with Ashoka Mody and Michael Walton. [pdf]