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Research
Interests: Macro
and Monetary Economics and Growth and Development
25.
``Financial Market Imperfections, Informality and Government
Spending Multipliers’’, May 2023, Journal of Development Economics, 163,
103103.
19. ``School
Absenteeism and Child Labor in Rural Bangladesh”,
with Najmus Saqib, August 2017, Journal of Developing Areas, 51(3), 299-316.
18. `` Foreign
Aid, Incentives and Efficiency: Can Foreign Aid Lead to Efficient Level of
Investment“, August 2017, Review of Development
Economics, 21(3),
678-697.
17.
``Samaritan's Dilemma, Time-Inconsistency and Foreign
Aid: A Review of Theoretical Models ‘’, September
2015, Chapter 6, The Handbook of
Economics of Foreign Aid Edward
Elgar, Editors Mak and Byron Lew.
16. “ One More Year of
Schooling or Work: Grade-Transition and
Child Labor in Rural Bangladesh’’,
Summer 2015, Journal of Developing Areas,
49(3), 27-48.
15.
“Preference
Based Vrs Market Based Discrimination: Implications
for Gender Differentials in Child Labor and Schooling’’,
November 2013, Journal of Development Economics, 105, 64-68.
14. “Education,
Health, and the Dynamics of Cross-Country Productivity Differences’’,
with Wenshu Chen, May
2013, Applied Economics Letters, 20(12), 1160-64.
13. “Self-Employment,
Efficiency Wage, and Public Policies’’, October 2012, Economic
Inquiry, 50(4), 1069-79.
11. ``Taxes,
Minimum Wage and the Dispersion of Wages”, in ``Taxation, Tax Policies, and Income Taxes” Ed. W.J. Berube and C. N.
Pinto, Nova Sciences Publishers, NY, February 2010, ISBN-10: 160741623.
10. “Market
Power, Price Adjustment, and Inflation’’, with Allen Head
and Bev Lapham, February 2010, International
Economic Review, 51(1), 73-98.
9. “Inflation and the Dispersion of Real Wages’’, May
2008, International Economic Review, 49(2),
377-399 (Lead Article).
8. “Capital Tax, Minimum Wage, and Labor Market
Outcomes’’, January 2008, Review of Economic Dynamics, 11(1), 133-154. Among the hottest
twenty-five articles published in Review of Economic Dynamics.
7. “Price
Dispersion, Inflation, and Welfare”, with Allen Head, May 2005, International Economic Review, 46(2), 533-572. Among top ten most cited papers published in International
Economic Review during 2005-08.
6. “Monopsony
and Labour Market Flows and Policies”, December
2005, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 48(4), 463-474 (Lead Article), Elsvier.
5. “Agricultural
Development of Bihar”, 2001, in
Accelerating Growth though Globalization of Indian Agriculture, Edited by K.P. Kalirajan,
G. Mytthili, and U. Sankar, Macmillan India Ltd.,
Delhi, pages 167-195.
4. “Agriculture,
Employment, and Poverty: Emerging Trends in Bihar”, with A. N. Sharma,
1997, in
Growth, Employment, and Poverty: Change and Continuity in Rural India,
Edited by Chadha, G.K.and A.N. Sharma, Vikas
Publishing House Pvt.Ltd., Delhi, 1997, pages
365-387.
3. “Indian Tea
Exports- An Analysis of Performance and Constraints”, with Ramani Kumar,
December 1994, Foreign Trade Review,
pages 160-180.
2. “Determinants
of the Incidence of Poverty among Rural Labor- a Cross-Sectional Study”,
December, 1994, Indian Journal of Labor
Economics, 37(4), pages 639-652.
1. “Rural
Non-Farm Employment- a Static and Dynamic Study of Inter-State Variations”, September 1993, Indian Journal of Labor
Economics, 36(3), pages 440-453.
Books:
1.
“Monetary,
Fiscal, and Labor Market Policies in Frictional Economies’’,
April 2010, Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany, ISBN
978-3-8383-4828-5.
2.
“Governance, Social and Physical
Infrastructure, and Development’’, May 2011, Ed. Alok Kumar
and Adam Scott, Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany, ISBN
978-3-8454-7658-2.
3.
“The Challenges of Economic
Development’’, October 2016, Ed. Alok Kumar and Sherri Liu,
Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany, ISBN 978-3-659-96957-7.
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