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Journal of Quantitative Economics, September 2024

This study provides insights into the dynamic job ladder and challenges in the Indian labor market, particularly when facing external shock. It examines the fluidity of job transitions among the ‘employed’, ‘unemployed’, and those ‘not in the laborforce’, focusing on the urban labor market of India during the COVID-19 pandemic...

The Indian Journal of Labour Economics , October 2024

This paper critically examines the quantitative returns of subcontracting within India’s unorganised manufacturing sector, utilising data from the National Sample Survey Office’s 62nd and 73rd rounds. The study applies an endogenous switching regression model to assess the impact of subcontracting on Gross Value Added (GVA)...

World Development, October 2024

This study examines the changes in occupational patterns and addresses the problem of transitioning from paid activities to unpaid activities among Adivasi women in the context of land alienation. We use data sources, viz. the 50th and 68th rounds of Employment and Unemployment Survey, the Periodic Labour Force Survey (2022-23)...

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2024

The rising rate of chronic disease is a leading driver of the global disease burden. Yet, its determinants are not fully understood. Exploiting the Green Revolution and its expansion in historically groundwater-rich Indian districts, we examine the unanticipated contribution of agricultural productivity growth to the rise in chronic...

Journal of Quantitative Economics , October 2024

Even though India is predominantly an agricultural economy, we find dearth of works related to Indian agricultural trade combining both export and imports. This paper attempts to examine the performances of major Indian agricultural crops both in terms of export and imports and tries to attribute it on various policy variables like...

American Economic Review, October 2024

Politicians may target public goods to benefit their constituents, at the expense of others. I study corruption in the context of Indian electricity and estimate the welfare consequences. Using new administrative billing data and close-election regression discontinuities, I show that billed electricity consumption is lower...

American Economic Review, October 2024

We document large gender disparities within a government program that entitles 46 million poor individuals to free hospital care. We show that care is not free in practice and higher costs are associated with larger disparities. Lowering care costs increases female utilization but does not reduce gender disparities because marginal...