Working Papers & Publications

Working Papers

• Economic Shocks and Religious Conflict in Medieval India Accepted — Journal of Economic History With S. Iyer and R. Ticku
• Influential Ties, Caste Networks, and Distress Borrowing Under Review — World Development With G. Bahal and Z. de Souza
• The Economic Costs of Religious Riots in India CEPR Discussion Paper · 2026 With S. Iyer and D. Petrukhin
• Second-Stage Stratification in India's Labour Force Surveys: A Simulation Study CSIE Working Paper · 2026 With P. Priyadarshi and A. Basole
• Civil Conflict with Rising Wages and Increasing State Capacity: Theory and Application to the Maoist Insurgency in India Dormant

Journal Articles

Reports, Policy Work & Book Chapters

As part of the Centre for Sustainable Employment (now part of the Centre for the Study of the Indian Economy) at Azim Premji University, I contribute to the periodic State of Working India reports, flagship publications of the Centre on labour markets in India.

Public Writing

• An argument without any basis

  Economic and Political Weekly

• Holy Wars? Temple desecrations in Medieval India

  With Rohit Ticku and Sriya Iyer

  Ideas for India

• Economic Development and Maoist Insurgency

  Ideas for India

• Riots for electoral gains?

  Business Standard

• Polarisation is temporary

  Frontline (interview)

• रोजगार और वेतन संबंधी चुनौतियां

  With Amit Basole

  Prabhat Khabar

• Did the Indian economy create nearly 13 million jobs in 2017?

  With Amit Basole

  Hindustan Times

• No Country for Young Workers: How demonetisation has hurt a generation of Indians

  With Rosa Abraham

  Scroll.in

• Tracking household accounts in last five years

  With Amit Basole

  Hindustan Times

• The Time Is Right for an Urban Employment Guarantee Programme

  With Amit Basole, Rajendran Narayanan and Rakshita Swamy

  The India Forum

• Why David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the Nobel Prize in economics

  With Avinash Tripathi

  Hindustan Times