Articles
India’s Increasing Skill Premium: Role of Demand and Supply, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2010)
Using micro data for India from 1983 to 2005, this paper finds that the tertiary...
A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India, Journal of International Development (2010)
This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between...
Progress of Participation in Tertiary Education in India from 1993 to 2004, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration (2009)
Using nationally representative household surveys, this paper examines the trends in attainment, enrolment, and access...
Popular Press
English skills raise wages for some, not all, in India (with Nishith Prakash and Aimee Chin), VOX (2010)
Does it pay to speak English? This column presents evidence from India that being fluent...
Indian? Want to prosper? Learn English (with Aimee Chin and Nishith Prakash), Financial Times (2010)
Unpublished Papers
A Distributional Analysis of Public Private Wage Differential in India (with Nishith Prakash), Nishith Prakash (2010)
We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the...