Rohini Somanathan                  [Publications]  [Detailed CV]

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Professor
Department of Economics
Delhi School of Economics
University of Delhi
Delhi 110007

Phone      : 91-011-27666533,34,35 Extn:117
Fax         : 91-011-27667159
Email      : rohini"at"econdse"dot"org

 

Ph.D. (Boston)
Area of Specialization:Economic Development, Political Economy, Public Economics

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Research Publications

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Papers:

• "School Heterogeneity, Human Capital Accumulation, and Standards." Journal of Public Economics, March 1998 pages 369-397.

• "A Simple Model of Voice", with Abhijit Banerjee, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2001.

• "Inequality and Segregation", with Rajiv Sethi, Journal of Political Economy, volume 112, number 6, December 2004.

• "History, social divisions and public goods in rural India" with Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer, Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May 2005, 3(2-3) , 639-47.

• "The assumptions and arithmetic of caste-based reservations, Economic and Political Weekly, June 17, 2006, 2436-2438.

• "Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990s." with Eli Berman and Hong Tan, forthcoming, Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, special issue in honor of Zvi Grilliches, 2006.

• "The Political Economy of Public Goods: Some Evidence from India", with Abhijit Banerjee, Journal of Development Economics, volume 82, number 2, 2007, 287-314.

• “Poverty and Exclusion” in The Oxford Companion to Economics in India, Kaushik Basu (ed.) Oxford University Press, February, 2007.

• "Quantifying Spatial Misallocation In Centrally Provided Public Goods." with Siva Athreya, Economics Letters, volume 98(2), 2008, pp. 201-206.

• "Public Action for Public Goods", with Abhijit Banerjee, and Lakshmi Iyer, Handbook of Development Economics vol. IV, T. Paul Schultz and John Strauss (ed), 2008.

• "The Demand for Disadvantage" , conference paper for the Agence Francaise de Developpement Conference, Paris, December 2007, to be published in their conference volume.

• “Microfinance Lifespans: A Study of Attrition and Exclusion in Self-Help Groups in India’’ with Jean-Marie Baland and Lore Vandewalle, India Policy Forum, July 2008.

• “Mapping Indian Districts Across Census Years, 1971-2001” with Hemanshu Kumar, Economic and Political Weekly (forthcoming).

• "Racial Inequality and Segregation Measures: Some Evidence from the 2000 Census’’ with Rajiv Sethi, The Review of Black Political Economy, Volume 36, Issue2 , 2009

• "Climate Change: Challenges Facing India’s Poor’’ with E. Somanathan, Economic and Political Weekly (forthcoming).
  

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