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Associate Professor of Economics
Senior Researcher, Ideas 42 (Harvard University)
Phone: +44 (0) 24 7652 2545
Fax: +44 (0) 24 7652 3032
Email: A.Mani@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 1.138 (Social Studies Building)
Office hours: By Appointment
Research Interests
Development Economics: Field Experiments; Poverty and Inequality; Political Economy of Governance
Working Papers
Mine, Yours or Ours: The Efficiency of Household Investment Decisions -- an Experimental Approach, Working Paper
Traveling Agents? Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India (with Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard Business School), BREAD Working paper no. 178
Media Mention:The story of nexus between politicos and bureaucrats retold, The Economic Times, Sep 15 2008
Political Representation and Crime: Evidence from India's Panchayati Raj (with L. Iyer, P. Mishra and P. Topalova)
Publications
Income Distribution and the Demand Constraint -- Journal of Economic Growth, June 2001
Income Distribution, Learning by Doing and Comparative Advantage (with Jinyoung Hwang) Review of Development Economics, August 2004
Politics, Information and the Urban Bias (with Sumon Majumdar and Sharun Mukand); Journal of Development Economics, October 2004
Choosing the Right Pond: Social Approval and Occupational Choice (with Charles Mullin); Journal of Labor Economics, October 2004
Democracy, Visibility and Public Good Provision (with Sharun Mukand); Journal of Development Economics, June 2007
‘Poverty’, International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, Thompson Press, 2nd edition, 2007
