possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …

researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware how many citizens and employees now take these …

We examine the role of financial aid in shaping the formation of human capital in economics. Specifically, we study the … trajectories, and labor market outcomes of a generation of Italian economists with special focus on gender gaps and the role of …

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places …. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too – with more than enough warts and …

We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two … population share and land share, we find support for these hypotheses in data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12 …

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …

state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …

Scheduled Tribes – on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the … Constitution of India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the …