Working Papers

• “Ownership Form and Contractual Inefficiency in the Indian Sugar Industry”, joint with Dilip Mookherjee
• “On the Determinants of Tunneling and Propping Activities in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Intra-group Financing Activities of Indian Family Business Groups”, joint with VijayaMarisetty
• “Environmental Impact of Poverty: Evidence from Firewood Collection in Rural Nepal”, joint with Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee and Rinki Sarkar
• “Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U”, joint with Kaushik Basu and Bhaskar Dutta.
• “An Integrated Empirical Model of Health Effects of Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution: The Case of Mining Region in Goa”, joint with Sunil Chhabra, Vikram Dayal, Anand Murugesan, Meena Sehgal and R Uma
• “QuantifyingMental Health Effects of Illness: The Indian HIV/AIDS Experience”, joint with Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Tridip Ray
• “The Determinants Of Nutritional Status Of Children In Rural India”, joint with Rekha Sharma, J.V. Meenakshi
  

Some Recently Published/ Accepted Papers

• “Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity, and Export Dynamics”, joint with Mark Roberts and James Tybout, Econometrica, forthcoming.
• “Inequality, collective action and the environment: evidence from firewood collection in Nepal”, in J.M. Baland, P. Bardhan and S. Bowles (eds.) , Inequality, Cooperation and Environmental Sustainability, Princeton University Press, 2006.
  
• “Managing the Environmental Consequences of Growth: Forest Degradation in the Indian Mid-Himalayas”, joint with Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee and Rinki Sarkar, in India Policy Forum 2006, Sage Publications, forthcoming.
• “The Computer Hardware Industry,” in S. Gokarn, A. Sen and R. R. Vaidya (eds.), The Structure of Indian Industry,Oxford University Press, 2004.
  
• “Walk or Wait? An Empirical Analysis of Street Crossing Decisions”, joint with Charles Manski and Mark Manuszak, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004.
• “Projection Pursuit Regression and Disaggregate Productivity Effects: The Case of the Indian Blast Furnaces”,joint with Ramprasad Sengupta, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004
• “Foreign vs. Domestic Technology , Private Vs. Public Ownership,and Product Quality: The Case of the Indian Microcomputer Industry”, in Journal of Quantitative Economics,vol. 14, pp. 97-121, 1998
• “Duration of Firms in an Infant Industry: The Case of the Indian Computer Hardware”, jointly with Krishna Srinivasan in Journal of Development Economics, vol. 53, pp.157-168, 1997