If you do not have access to a paper below, you can
e-mail me (som [at] isid.ac.in).
Low-Cost Strategies to Improve Municipal Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Nepal,
Mani Nepal, Apsara Karki Nepal, Madan S. Khadayat, Rajesh K. Rai, Priya Shyamsundar & E. Somanathan. Environmental and
Resource Economics. (2023) 84:729-752.
There is no economic case for new coal plants in India,
Shoibal Chakravarty and E. Somanathan. World Development Perspectives. (2021) 24:100373.
The
Impact of Temperature on Productivity and Labor Supply: Evidence from
Indian Manufacturing, E. Somanathan,
Rohini Somanathan, Anant Sudarshan, and Meenu Tewari. Journal of Political Economy. (2021). 129(6).
A breath of fresh air: Raising awareness for clean fuel adoption, Farzana Afridi, Sisir Debnath, and E. Somanathan. Journal of Development Economics (2021). 151:102674
The
Distributional Impact of Climate Change: Why Food Prices Matter, Eshita Gupta, Bharat Ramaswami, and E. Somanathan. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change (2021). Pre-print here.
Value of Cleaner Neighborhoods: Application of Hedonic Price Model in Low Income Context. Mani Nepal, Rajesh K. Rai, Madan S. Khadayat, E. Somanathan. World Development (2020) Volume 131.
Does Collective Action Sequester Carbon? Evidence from the Nepal Community Forestry Program. Randall Bluffstone, E. Somanathan, Prakash Jha, Harisharan Luintel, Rajesh Bista, Michael Toman, Naya Paudel (2018). World Development 101: 133-141.
Global
warming and local air pollution have reduced wheat yields in India. Ridhima Gupta, E. Somanathan, and Sagnik Dey (2017). Climatic Change 140(3-4): 593-604.
Climate Policy and
Innovation in the Absence of Commitment. Ashokankur Datta and E. Somanathan. Journal
of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
(2016). 3(4):917-955.
Biogas:
Clean energy access with low-cost mitigation of global warming. E. Somanathan and Randall Bluffstone. Environmental and
Resource Economics. 62: 265277. October 2015.
Conserving
forests for biodiversity - status and trends from the global forest
resource assessment 2015. David Morales-Hidalgo, Sonja N.
Oswalt, and E. Somanathan. Forest
Ecology and Management. 352: 68-77. September 2015.
Are embankments a good
flood-control strategy? A case study on the Kosi river. E. Somanathan, Water Policy.
(2013), 15: 75-88.
The Demographics of Cooperation: Evidence from a field
experiment in the Himalayas. Sujoy Chakravarty, Carine Sebi, E. Somanathan, and
E. Theophilus. Journal
of Economics and Management, (2013), 9(2):231-269.
Impact
of Biometric Identification-based transfers Arka Roy
Chaudhuri and E. Somanathan, Economic and Political Weekly,
46(21): 77-80, May 21, 2011.
Effects
of
Information on Environmental Quality in Developing Countries. E. Somanathan. Review of
Environmental Economics and Policy, 4(2): 275-292, Summer 2010.
What
Do We Expect from an International Climate Agreement? A Perspective
from a Low-income Country in Joseph Aldy and Robert
Stavins (Eds), Climate Change Policy Beyond
Kyoto, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Climate
change: Challenges facing India's poor with Rohini
Somanathan, Economic and Political Weekly,
44(31): 51-58, August 1, 2009. (Erratum: The labels in Figure 3a are
interchanged.)
Decentralization
for cost-effective conservation E. Somanathan, R. Prabhakar, and B.S. Mehta, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the
USA, 106(11): 4143-4147, March 17, 2009. Download the data and programs
for this paper.
Awareness
and the Demand for Environmental Quality: Survey Evidence on Drinking
Water in Urban India, Jyotsna Jalan, E. Somanathan, and
Saraswata
Chaudhuri, Environment and Development
Economics, 14(6): 665-692, December 2009. Download the data.
Discrimination in an
Elite Labour Market? Job Placements at the Indian Institute of
Management - Ahmedabad Sujoy Chakravarty and E. Somanathan, the Economic and Political Weekly, 43(44):
45-50, November 1, 2008.
The Importance
of Being Informed: Experimental Evidence on Demand for Environmental
Quality, Jyotsna
Jalan and E. Somanathan, Journal of Development Economics,
87(1): 14-28, August 2008. Download the questionnaires,
data, and programs for this paper.
Biodiversity,
pp. 32-35 in the Oxford Companion to Economics in India,
edited by Kaushik Basu, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Collective
Action for Forest Conservation: Does Heterogeneity Matter? E. Somanathan, R.
Prabhakar, and B.S. Mehta, pp. 234-245 in Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental
Sustainability edited by Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab
Bardhan and Samuel Bowles, Princeton University Press, November 2006.
How
Degraded are Himalayan Forests? R. Prabhakar, E. Somanathan, and B.S. Mehta, Current Science, 91(1): 61-67, July 10,
2006. Comments
and our response, 92(4): 418-420, February 25, 2007. Training sites
used for image classification in the paper are available on the India
Biodiversity Portal.
Measuring the
marginal value of water and the elasticity of demand for water in
agriculture, E. Somanathan and R. Ravindranath, Economic
and Political Weekly, 41(26): 2712-2715, June 30-July 7,
2006.
Environmental
Policy Instruments in Developing Countries with Thomas Sterner, pp.
217-244 in Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability:
New Policy Options, edited by Ramon Lopez and Michael A.
Toman, Oxford University Press, June 2006.
A
Simple Model of Collective Action with Rajiv Sethi, Economic Development and Cultural Change,
54(3): 725-747, April 2006.
Valuing Lives
Equally: Distributional Weights for Welfare Analysis. Economics Letters, 90:122-125, January
2006.
Inequality
and Environmental Policy, in Environment, Inequality, and Collective Action,
edited by Marcello Basili, Maurizio Franzini, and Alessandro Vercelli,
Routledge: New York, January 2006.
Norm
Compliance and Strong Reciprocity, with Rajiv Sethi, pp. 229-250
in Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The
Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life edited by
Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr, MIT Press,
2005.
The
Evolution of Honesty, with Paul H. Rubin, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
54(1): 1-17, May 2004.
"What can
we learn from Cultural Group Selection and Co-evolutionary Models?"
with Rajiv Sethi, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
53(1): 105-108, January 2004.
Understanding
Reciprocity with Rajiv
Sethi, in the Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization, 50(1): 1-27, January 2003.
Can
Growth Ease Class Conflict? in Economics
and Politics, March 2002, 14(1): 65-81.
Empowering
Local Government: Lessons from Europe in the Economic and Political Weekly, October 13,
2001, 36(41), pp 3935-40.
Preference
Evolution and Reciprocity with Rajiv
Sethi in the Journal of Economic Theory,
April 2001.
Humans
as Factors of Production: An Evolutionary Analysis with Paul H. Rubin in
Managerial and Decision Economics,
November-December 1998.
Evolutionary
Stability of Pure-Strategy Equilibria in Finite Games in Games and Economic Behavior,
October-November 1997.
The Evolution of
Social Norms in Common Property Resource Use with Rajiv Sethi in the American Economic Review, September 1996,
pp 766-88.
Deforestation,
Property Rights and Incentives
in Central Himalaya in the Economic and
Political Weekly, January 26,1991, 26(4), Political Economy
Supplement 37-46.
"Incentive-based Approaches to Nature Conservation." in Environmental Economics in Developing Countries: Issues and Challenges Edited by Achiransu Acharyya, Routledge, 2023. Pre-print available here.
"Institutions, the Environment, and Development." Chapter 20 in Economic Development and Institutions Edited by Jean-Marie Baland, Francois Bourguignon, Jean-Philippe Platteau and Thierry Verdier, Princeton University Press, 2020. Pre-print available here.
"A View from India." Chapter 7 in Towards a Workable and Effective Climate Regime, Edited by Scott Barrett, Carlo Carraro, and Jaime de Melo, 2015
"Understanding
India's Economic Growth." Review of Pulapre Balakrishnan's Economic
Growth in India: History and Prospect. Economic
and
Political Weekly, March 19, 2011, 46(12), 29-31.
"Recent Revolutions in Economic Theory." Review of Samuel Bowles's Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution. Economic
and
Political Weekly, March 19, 2011, 46(12), 29-31.
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