Research

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Interests

Development Economics, Labor Ecomomics, Applied Econometrics

Publications

Journal

• Progress in Participation in Higher Education in India during last two decades, with Andreas Blom, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 4793, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, forthcoming
• A Distrbutional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India, IZA Discussion Paper #3973, Journal of International Development, forthcoming

Chapter in Edited Book

• Girls in India : Poverty, location, and  social disparities, with Kin Bing Wu, Pete Goldschmidt, Christy Kim Boscardin. Chapter 5, In: M. Lewis and M. Lockheed, eds., Exclusion, Gender, and Education: Case Studies from Developing Countries, Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development

Working Papers

• Changes in Wage Structure in Urban India 1983-2004: A Quantile Regression Decomposition, IZA Discussion Paper #3963

• India's Rising Skill Premium: Role of Demand and Supply, IZA Discussion paper # 3968, revised and resubmitted, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy

Notes

• Changes in Income Inequality in Rural India: Decomposing the Gini by Income Sources, with Abusaleh Shariff (IFPRI)