Research

My primary areas of research are international economics and economic growth and development.

Below are some of my unpublished papers. For links to forthcoming and published papers click here.

What’s Across the Border? Re-Evaluating the Cross-Border Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects (with David Neumark and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez), February, 2024. (forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics)

Labour Market Monopsony Power and the Dynamic Gains to Openness Reforms (with Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez and Adam Hal Spencer), Latest version, October, 2023. (Earlier version,  CESifo Working Paper No. 10247,  2023. )

Global Taxation and National Welfare States (with Rahul Mukherjee), forthcoming, Handbook of Political Economy for Social Policy. 

Minimum Wage and Employer Variety (with Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez), (current version, June, 2022), (Online Appendix)

Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India: Evidence from Night lights data (with Karan Talathi) (Online Appendix) original version, April, 2021, current version January, 2023. (forthcoming, Economic Development and Cultural Change)

Education Policies and Practices: What Have We Learnt and the Road Ahead for Bihar (with Nishith Prakash), IZA Discussion Paper No. 6614.

When does legal origin matter? (with Mohammad Amin), December, 2008.

Offshoring and Unemployment (with Devashish Mitra), NBER working paper #13149, 2007.

Dynamic Evolution of Income Distribution and Credit-Constrained Human Capital Investment in Open Economies, (the web version contains the numerical example, the details of which were left out in the published version) Journal of International Economics, 55(2), 329-358, 2001.