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Papers

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  • "Change in Religious Composition across Districts in India from 2001 to 2011, A Descriptive Analysis of the Religion Census" (with Shamika Ravi, Sunil Rajpal, S V Subramanian) Economic & Political Weekly (EPW) MARCH 9, 2024 vol lix no 10. [link]

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  • "Explaining the poor-rich gap in anthropometric failure among children in India: An econometric analysis of the NFHS, 2021 and 2016" (with Gaurav Dhamija, Rockli Kim, SV Subramanian) Social Science and Medicine - Population Health, August 2023 [link]

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  • "Ethnic representation in interventional clinical trials run in India" (with Jaishree Mendiratta, Mounika Pillamarapu, Indraneel Chakraborty, Ravi Vaswani, Sreekar Vadlamani, Gayatri Saberwal) The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia. Volume 15 August 2023 [link]

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  • "Exercising in India: An Exploratory Analysis Using The Time Use Survey, 2019" (with Shamika Ravi, Rockli Kim, SV Subramanian) Collegium Antropologicum, Vol. 47 No. 1, 2023 [link]

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  • "Age- and Gender-Specific Prevalence of Intellectually Disabled Population in India" (with Ambade M, Shamika Ravi, Subramanian SV). Journal of Autism and Development Disorders. January 2023 [link]

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  • "Conducting clinical trials only in India’s large cities is unlikely to sample the country’s ethnicity sufficiently well" (with Shamika Ravi, Gayatri Saberwal). Current Science. December 2022 [link]

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  • "Social Media and Political Leaders: An exploratory analysis" (with Shamika Ravi) Available at SSRN January 2022 [link]

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  • "Methods for assessing seasonal and annual trends in wasting in Indian surveys (NFHS-3, 4, RSOC & CNNS)" (with Robert Johnston, Gaurav Dhamija, Praween K. Agrawal, Arjan de Wagt). PLOS One. November 2021 [link]

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  • "Making waves in India: Media and the COVID-19 pandemic" (with Shamika Ravi) Brookings Working Paper. July 2021 [link]

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  • "Association of Maternal History of Neonatal Death with Subsequent Neonatal Death across 56 Low- and Middle-Income Countries" (with Li Zhihui, Kim R, Subramanian SV). Scientific Reports (Nature). Article number: 19919 October 2021 [link]

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  • "Poverty, Pandemic and Elections: Analysis of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020" (with Shamika Ravi). Indian Journal of Human Development. April 2021 [link]

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  • "Crop Fires and Cardiovascular Health – A Study from North India" (with Prachi Singh, Ambuj Roy, Dinakar Bhasin, Shamika Ravi, Sagnik Dey). Social Science and Medicine - Population Health 2021; vol. 14. [link]

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  • "Precision-weighted estimates of neonatal, post-neonatal and child mortality for 640 districts in India, National Family Health Survey 2016" (with Kim R, Liou L, Xu Y, Kumar R, Leckie G, Venkataramanan R, Kumar A, Joe W, Subramanian SV). J Glob Health. 2020 Dec;10(2):020405 [link]

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  • "Authoritarian Governments Appear to Manipulate COVID Data" (with Anup Malani, Shamika Ravi, Arnav Agarwal) [arXiv:2007.09566]

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  • "Impact of national lockdown on COVID-19 deaths in select European countries and the US using a Changes-in-Changes model" (with Shamika Ravi and S. V. Subramanian) [arXiv:2006.12251]

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  • "Association of Maternal History of Neonatal Death With Subsequent Neonatal Death in India" (with Rockli Kim, Tanushree Sahoo, Ambuj Roy, Shamika Ravi, A. K. Shiva Kumar, Ramesh Agarwal, S. V. Subramanian). JAMA Network Open 2020;3(4):e202887. [link]

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  • "Missing female patients: an observational analysis of sex ratio among outpatients in a referral tertiary care public hospital in India" (with Deepak Agarwal, Shamika Ravi, Ambuj Roy, S V Subramanian, Randeep Guleria), BMJ Open 2019;9:e026850. [link] (Article featured in The Indian Express, Times of India, Business Standard, The Telegraph (UK & India), The Reuters)

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  • "Impact of repeated blood pressure measurement on blood pressure categorization in a population-based study from India" (with Arun Jose, Ashish Awasthi, Dimple Kondal, Ambuj Roy, and Dorairaj Prabhakaran), Journal of Human Hypertension, 33, pages594–601 (2019). [link]

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  • “What’s in a definition? A study on the suitability of the current urban definition in India through its employment guarantee programme” (with Vaidehi Tandel and Komal Hiranandani), Journal of Asian Economics, November 2018 [link]

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  • ·“Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution in Consumption in the Presence of Inertia: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment” (with Shamika Ravi), Management Science, December 2017 [link]

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  • “The impact of Financial Constraints on Exporting Firms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment” (with Priya Ranjan and J Roy Choudhari), World Economy, May 2017 [link]

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  • “The Impact of Study Groups and Roommates on Academic Performance” (with Tarun Jain), The Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 97, Issue 1, 2015 [link]

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  • "Why So Few Women in Politics? Evidence from India" Brookings Working Paper, July 2014 [link]

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  • “Women Voters in Indian Democracy: A Silent Revolution” (with Shamika Ravi), Economic and Political Weekly, March 2014 [link]

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  • “Causes of the The Great Recession of 2007-09: The Financial Crisis is the Symptom not the Disease!” (with Ravi Jagannathan and Ernst Schaumburg), Journal of Financial Intermediation, Volume 22, 2013

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  • “Determinants of Corruption: Government Effectiveness vs. Cultural Norms,” (with Shamika Ravi), B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. Volume 12, 2012

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  • “Measuring Risk on Investment in Informal (Illegal) Housing: Theory and Evidence from Pune, India,” (with David le Blanc), Regional Science and Urban Economics, April 2008

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  • “From Microfinance to m-Finance, Innovations Case Discussion: M-PESA,” (with Jonathan Morduch and Shamika Ravi), Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (MIT press journal), Winter/Spring 2007

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  • “Panel Data Models with Spatially Correlated Error Components,” (with H. Kelejian and I. Prucha), Journal of Econometrics, September 2007

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