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Economics and Development Studies

Research Interests

Applied Microeconomic Theory, Behavioural Economics (Social Preferences), Dynamic Modelling (Endogenous Preferences), Economics of Discrimination & Affirmative Action, Application of Contest Theory.

Publications

Rent Dissipation in Large Population Tullock Contests (with R. Lahkar), Public Choice (2023) 197: 253-282. Link: https://rdcu.be/dmWor
The Incentive and Efficiency Effects of Affirmative Action: Does Envy Matter? Oxford Economic Papers, gpy070, https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpy070
Affirmative Action and Dynamics of Work-ethic Preferences, Economic Inquiry, Vol. 55, No. 3, July 2017, 1350–1369.

Conference Presentations

2016: Caste, Class or Race? Inequality in India and the United States: A Conference in Memory of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, organized by Duke University, Middlebury College and Shiv Nadar university.
2014: 10th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and development, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
2014: The Global Blackness Conference, Duke University, USA.
2010: 19th Workshop in Political Economy, Silvaplana.
2009: Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Invited Seminars

Caste, Class or Race? Inequality in India and the United States: A Conference in Memory of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, organized by Duke University, Middlebury College and Shiv Nadar university, (2016).
ISI Calcutta (2013).
The Global Blackness Conference, Duke University, USA (2014).