Assistant
Professor of Political Science
University
of Wisconsin, Madison
Welcome. I am an assistant professor in the Department
of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I received a PhD in political science from
Stanford University in September 2010, and an MA in economics in 2008. My research and teaching focus on
inequalities in political representation and corruption among politicians,
particularly in South Asia. Other projects examine the effects of migration on
political participation and violence in India, the role of the Great Depression
in helping India, Pakistan and Bangladesh secure their political independence,
the selection and impact of leaders, and the effects of foreign aid on economic
growth. My research is characterized by a close attention to causality, by
interests in political and economic development, and has been published in the American
Political Science Review and is forthcoming in The Economic Journal. Prior to starting at Wisconsin, I was a
visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton
University. I have previously worked at
the Center for Global Development and the International Monetary Fund. Research outputs are listed below. Here is my CV, and my Google
Scholar page. Thank you for
visiting.
Peer-Reviewed
Publications
·
Counting Chickens When They Hatch:
Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth,
with Samuel Bazzi, Michael Clemens and Steven Radelet, The Economic Journal,
forthcoming. A previous version
of the paper was issued as Center for Global Development Working
Paper 44, July 2004, and was referenced in a Washington
Post editorial.
·
Do
Electoral Quotas Work After They Are Withdrawn?
Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India, American Political Science Review 103 (1):23-35, 2009. Here are the replication
data and code, articles on the paper in the Indian
Express and the Times of India, and mentions on a New
York Times blog, Chris
Blattman’s blog and in the Hindustan Times.
Other
Publications
·
Secondary Analyses of
Experiments: Opportunities and Challenges, with Kate Baldwin, APSA-Comparative
Democratization Newsletter, October 2011.
·
Aid
and Growth: The Current Debate and Some New Evidence, with Steven Radelet and
Michael Clemens in The
Macroeconomic Management of Foreign Aid edited by Peter Isard and
others, 2006 (Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund).
·
Aid and Growth, with Michael Clemens and
Steven Radelet, Finance
and Development 42 (3), September 2005. Reprinted in Annual Editions: Developing World 07/08, edited by Robert J. Griffiths,
November 2006 (Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill).
In-Progress
·
Using
Asset Disclosures to Study Politicians’ Rents: An Application to India.
·
The
Effects of Malapportionment in Parliamentary Systems: Subnational Evidence from
India.
·
A Primer on Voter Discrimination Against India’s Lower Caste Politicians: Evidence from
Observational Data and Survey Experiments.
·
What Have the Lasting Effects of Electoral Quotas
for Lower Castes Been? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India.
·
Trade Shocks, Mass Mobilization and
Decolonization: Evidence from India's
Independence Struggle, with Saumitra Jha.
·
Migration, Politics and Public Goods: Evidence
Using New Data from Kerala, with Maggie Peters.
·
The Effects of Exogenous Shocks to Migration on
Violence in India, with Bethany Lacina.
·
Leadership and Development: Education,
Embeddedness and the Performance of Indian Bureaucrats, with Alexander Lee.
Dormant
·
A Microeconomic View of the
Evolution of Poverty and Inequality in Ghana, 1967-1997 with Markus Goldstein.
·
The Missing
Globalization Puzzle
with Arvind Subramanian, Natalia Tamirisa,
and David Coe, International
Monetary Fund Working Paper WP/02/171, October 2002.
Software
·
RB-AMIN.exe: A Tool to “Fuzzy” Match Indian Names.