V. Rao - Other Publications

Journal Articles

• The Politics of Public Good Provision: Evidence From Indian Local Governments, with T. Besley, R. Pande and L. Pahman, Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May 2004.

• The Determinants of Gender Equity in India: Examining Dyson and Moore's Thesis with New Data, with L. Rahman, Population and Development Review, 30(2), Pp: 239-268, June 2004. 
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• Community Based (and Driven) Development: A Critical Review, with G. Mansuri, The World Bank Research Observer, vol. 19, no. 1 (2004), pp. 1-39.

• Wedding Celebrations as Conspicuous Consumption: Signaling Social Status in Rural India, with F. Bloch and S. Desai, Journal of Human Resources Volume XXXIX, Number 3, Summer 2004.

• Terror as Bargaining Instrument: A Case-Study of Dowry Violence in Rural India, with F. Bloch, American Economic Review, Septenber 2002.

• Sex Workers and The Cost of Safe Sex: The Compensating Differential for Condom Use in Calcutta, with I. Gupta, M. Lokshin and S. Jana, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 71, Issue 2, August 2003, Pages 585-603.

• Experiments in “Participatory Econometrics”: Improving the Connection Between Economic Analysis and the Real World, Economic and Political Weekly May 18th, 2002. 

• Statistical Discrimination and Social Assimilation,  with F. Bloch, Economics Bulletin (2001), Vol. 10 no. 2 pp. 1-5.

• Celebrations as Social Investments: Festivals, Unit Price Variation and Social Status in Rural India, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, October 2001.

• Price Heterogeneity and Real Inequality: A Case-Study of Prices and Poverty in Rural South India,  Review of Income and Wealth, Series 46, #2, June 2000.

• The Marriage Squeeze Interpretation of Dowry Inflation: Response. (long version)Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 108, #6, December 2000.

• Can Economics Mediate the Link Between Anthropology and Demography?  Population and Development Review, December 1997.

• "Wife Beating in Rural South India: A Qualitative and Econometric Analysis," Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 44, # 8, Pp. 1169-1180, April 1997.

Books

• Culture and Public Action, with M. Walton (eds.), Stanford University Press, 2004 (South Asia Edition - Permanent Black, 2004). 
                  Conference proceedings, commentary, other supplementary materials

Chapters in Books

• "Culture and Public Action: Relationality, Equality of Agency and Development" with M. Walton, and "Conclusion: Implications of Cultural Lens for Development Policy and Thought" with M. Walton, in Culture and Public Action, V. Rao and M. Walton (eds.), Stanford University Press, 2004. 

• Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Program Evaluation, with M. Woolcock, Chapter 8 in The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools, F. Bourguignon and L. Pereira da Silva (eds.), World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2004.

• Domestic Violence and Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Karnataka: An Exercise in 'Participatory Econometrics', and The Demand for Dowries and Bride Characteristics in Marriage: Empirical Estimates for Rural South-Central India, with A. Deolalikar, in Gender, Population, and Development,  M. Krishnaraj, R. Sudarshan, A. Sharif (eds.), Oxford University Press, 1998.