Culture & Development

  1. Who should be at the Top of Bottom-Up Development: A Case-Study of the NRLM in Rajasthan, India,” (with Shareen Joshi), March 2017
  2. Recasting Culture to Undo Gender: A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India,” (with Shruti Majumdar and Paromita Sanyal), September 2015
  3. The Anatomy of Failure: Integrating Ethnography with a Randomized Control Trial to Evaluate an Attempt to Deepen Democracy in Rural India,” (with Kripa Ananthpur and Kabir Malik), March 2014
  4. Conducting Ethical Economic Research: Complications from the Field,” (with Harold Alderman and Jishnu Das),Oxford Handbook on Professional Economic Ethics, George Demartino and Dierdre McCloskey, editors, Oxford University Press, 2013
  5. Dignity Through Discourse: Poverty and the Culture of Deliberation in Indian Village Democracies,” (with Paromita Sanyal), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 629, pp:146-172, May 2010
  6. Symbolic Public Goods and The Coordination of Collective Action: A Comparison of Local Development in India and Indonesia,” Chapter 10 in Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray (editors) Contested Commons: Conversations Between Economists and Anthropologists, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2008
  7.  “The Determinants of Gender Equity in India: Examining Dyson and Moore’s Thesis with New Data” (joint with Lupin Rahman), Population and Development Review,  30(2), Pp: 239-268, June 2004
  8. Culture and Public Action(with Mike Walton), Stanford University Press, 2004
  9.  “Conclusion,” (With Michael Walton), Chapter 16 in Culture and Public Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy, (Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton, editors) Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004
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  1. Culture and Public Action: Relationality, Equality of Agency and Development,” (with Michael Walton), Chapter 1 inCulture and Public Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy, (Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton, editors) Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004
  2.  “Statistical Discrimination and Social Assimilation,” (with Francis Bloch), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 10, #2 , 2001
  3. Poverty and Public Celebrations in Rural India,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,” Vol. 573, Pp: 85-104, 2001
  4. Can Economics Mediate the Link Between Anthropology and Demography?” Population and Development Review, Vol. 23 #4, Pp:833-38,  December 1997