Articles
Research Repository, Yiga-Choling (Ghoom) monastery, Darjeeling, India.
Please click here for an overview of the major themes of my research and for exciting new works in progress!
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions, with Avner Greif and Yadira Gonzalez de Lara: The American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2008
- Maintaining Peace Across Ethnic Lines: New Lessons from the Past: Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 2007
- Governance in the Gullies: Democratic Responsiveness and Leadership in Delhi's Slums, with Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock: World Development, 2007
- Sharing the Future: Financial Solutions to the Political Economy Challenges of Development, forthcoming in the Proceedings of the International Economic Association, edited by Pranab Bardhan and Timur Kuran.
WORKING PAPERS
- Complementarities and Religious Tolerance: Evidence from India, revised from Trade, Institutions and Religious Tolerance: Evidence from India (Stanford GSB Working Paper No. 2004), Jan 2008 (coming soon!)
- Financial Innovations and Political Development: Evidence from Revolutionary England (2010) revised from Shares, coalition formation and political development: Evidence from 17th Century England (Stanford GSB Working Paper No. 2005), August 2008, revision requested at the Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Veterans, organizational skill and ethnic cleansing: evidence from the Partition of South Asia , March 2011, with Steven Wilkinson, revision requested at the American Political Science Review
- Who Gets Heard in a Deliberative Democracy? Evidence from Transcripts of Village Meetings in South India, with Radu Ban and Vijayendra Rao, revision requested at the Journal of Development Economics
- A Theory of Community Formation and Social Hierarchy, with Susan Athey and Emilio Calvano (coming soon!)
- Global Trade, Contracts and Poverty Alleviation in Indigenous Communities: Cochineal in Mexico, April 2011, with Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
- Trade shocks, Mass Mobilization and Decolonization: Evidence from India’s Independence Struggle, May 2011, with Rikhil Bhavnani
