Banerjee and Iyer (henceforth, BI) (American Economic Review, 2005) find that districts which the British assigned to landlord revenue systems systematically underperform districts with non-landlord based revenue systems, especially in agricultural investment and productivity and mainly after...

We reply to Robert Jensen and Emily Oster's (2014) response to our replication of their QJE paper and Berk Ozler's recent blog. We first summarize Jensen and Oster's empirical findings and proceed to briefly explain our own main results. Then we address and engage with the issues raised by and...

This paper examines the empirical implications of the Lewis Model with respect to the relationship between the phenomenon of surplus labour in rural areas and out-migration from these areas to urban areas. Given that scheduled castes and scheduled tribes households along with households with low...