#  Research 

 



My main area of research is in development economics, with particular interests in governance, decentralization, public goods provision, and organizations of the poor. I've recently developed a keen interest in understanding (and trying to measure) the longer-term impacts and general equilibrium effects of development interventions.

### Publications

[Engaging Undergraduates in Economics](http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KS6n3QbZhHk92nBYZy9c/full) (with Jeffrey Miron)  
*The Journal of Economic Education*. 2015.

[Gender and Public Goods Provision in Tamil Nadu's Village Governments](https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/947a52ce-59ce-5d22-9c98-43af7a311af0) (with Xiaobo Zhang)  
*The World Bank Economic Review*. 2015.

[Village Governments, Gender, and Public Goods Provision in Tamil Nadu](https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/746611468156898553/pdf/924580NEWS0Res00Box385356B00PUBLIC0.pdf) (with Xiaobo Zhang)  
*World Bank Research Digest*. 2014.

[Comparing the Evolution of Spatial Inequality in China and India: A Fifty-Year Perspective](http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/10/7024371/special-issue-abcde-conference-beyond-transition-16-4) (with Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang), in Francois Bourguignon and Boris Pleskovic (eds.) "Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics Regional 2007: Beyond Transition." 2007.