MSN
MC 3-306
The
World Bank
Email:
firstinitiallastname@worldbank.org
CITZENSHIP
CURRENT POSITION
Lead
Economist, Development Research Group,
The World Bank (1999 to present)
EDUCATION
Ph.D (Economics), December 1990 (Title: Birth,
Marriage and Death: Essays in Demographic Economics)
The
Advisory
Committee: Jere Behrman, Andrew Foster,
Robert Pollak and Paul Taubman
B.A. (Economics, with
Statistics and Sociology), June 1984
St. Xavier's College,
Aguiuar
Award for best undergraduate in the Arts and Humanities
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
9/94-12/98:
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics,
with Concurrent Appointments in the Center for Environmental Studies and the
Asian Studies Department
(On Leave from September 1997-December 1998)
9/97-1/99:
Visiting Mellon Fellow, Population Studies and
(On Sabbatical Leave from
9/92-9/94:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department
of Economics and
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow,
10/90-9/92:
Hewlett Post-Doctoral Fellow, Committee
on Demographic Training and
Associate, Committee on Southern Asian
Studies.
9/85-9/87:
Research Assistant to Anil Deolalikar
and Jere Behrman, Nutrition and Health Projects, Center for the
Analysis of Developing Economies
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1) Research Grant from Knowledge for Change Program: To prepare the Policy
Research Report on Local Development (with Ghazala Mansuri)
2) Research Grant from SIDA to study Village Governance in
3) Research Grant from DFID via the World Bank’s Communications
and Development Unit
to study Deliberative Democracy in
4) Research Grant from BNPP (Dutch Government) to study Village
Governance in
5) Research Grant from
World Bank Research Department and ASEM trust funds – (with Vivi Alatas,
World Bank, Victoria Beard, Wisconsin, and Menno Pradhan, World Bank) To
evaluate the impact of an urban CDD project (UPP2) in Indonesia using
mixed-methods.
6) Research Grants from
World Bank Research Department and DFID – (with Tim Besley, LSE and Rohini Pande,
Columbia University) To study the Impact of Village Decentralization (Panchayat
Reforms) in India
7) Research Grant from
Norwegian Trust Fund
To Evaluate Impact of Social Funds in
8) Research Grant from the
Dutch Government
– (With Mike Walton) To Edit Volume on Culture and Development
9) World Bank Research Grant and Dutch
Trust Fund Grant, 1999 (joint with Michael Woolcock) A multi-disciplinary
analysis of the relationship between urban poverty, risk protection and kinship
in
10) Robert Schalckebach Foundation, 1997. Grant to study the
impact of property rights and cultural systems on inter and intra-household
inequality in rural
11) Rockefeller Foundation, 1995-96. Worked with Sonalde Desai on a
grant to study fertility and household decision making in
12) Mellon Foundation Fellowship, University of
Michigan, 1993-94. Fellowship to study
women's status, decision making and demographic transitions in rural South
India using economic, demographic and anthropological methods.
13) Hewlett Foundation Fellowship, University of Chicago,
1990-92. Fellowship to undertake post-doctoral training in Economic Demography.
14)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
AND HONORS
Associate
Editor: Economic Development and Cultural Change
Editorial
Board: Journal
of Development Studies
Editorial
Board: Journal
of Mixed-Methods Research (Sage)
Associate Editor: International Journal
of Multiple-Methods Research
Life Member: Institute for Social and Economic Change,
Invited Research
Associate:
Brooks World Poverty Institute,
Member: Social Development Board
– World Bank, from 2002-present
Member: Gender Board – World Bank, from 2002-2007
Referee:
American
Economic Review, American Political Science Review, American Sociological
Review, Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Demography, Development and
Change, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Journal, Journal of
Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization, Journal of Feminist Economics, Journal of Human
Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of
Population Economics, National Academy of Sciences, National Science
Foundation, Oxford University Press, Population Development Review, Review of
Economics and Statistics, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Science and
Medicine, World Bank Economic Review
OTHER
EMPLOYMENT
1)
Free-Lance Writer on Indian Classical Music
2) Apparel – Trade Journal of the Indian
Garment Industry, 1983-84
Economics
Correspondent
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Development
in Karnataka: Challenges of Equity, Governance and Empowerment, (edited by Gopal K.
Kadekodi, Ravi Kanbur and Vijayendra Rao), Academic Foundation Press,
Culture and Public Action (edited by Vijayendra Rao and Michael
Walton), Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004
Website: http://www.cultureandpublicaction.org
Reports
World
Development Report 2006: Equity and Development (member of core team of authors), World Bank
and Oxford University Press, 2005
The
Political Economy of Gram Panchayats in South India (with Tim Besley and Rohini Pande), World
Bank
1.
Tokenism
vs. Agency? The Impact of Women’s Reservations on Village Democracies in
2.
“Disciplinary Monopolies in Development Research,”
(with Michael Woolcock), Global Governance, December 2007
3.
"PN Mari Bhat: An Intellectual
Tribute," (with Monica Das Gupta, Samuel H. Preston, Vijayendra Rao, and
TV Sekhar)," Economic and Political Weekly, September 8 2007, Pp:
3611-3615
4. “Governance and the “Karnataka Model of
Development’” (with Gopal K. Kadekodi and
5. Book Review, Twenty-First Century
6. “The Political Economy of Gram Panchayats in
7. “Governance in the Gullies: Democratic
Responsiveness and Community Leadership in
8. “Participatory Democracy in Action: Survey
Evidence From Rural India,” (joint with Tim Besley and Rohini Pande), Journal
of the European Economic Association, April/May
2005, Vol. 3, No. 2-3, Pages 648-657
9. “The Social Impact of Social Funds in
10. "The
Determinants of Gender Equity in India: Examining Dyson and Moore's Thesis with
New Data” (joint with Lupin Rahman), Population and Development
Review, 30(2), Pp: 239-268, June
2004
11. “The Politics of Public Good Provision:
Evidence from Indian Local Governments,” (with Tim Besley, Rohini Pande and
Lupin Rahman), Journal of the European Economic Association , Vol. 2-23,
2004
12. “Community Based (and Driven) Development: A
Critical Review,” (with Ghazala Mansuri), The World Bank Research Observer,
vol. 19, no. 1 (2004),
pp. 1-39
13. “Wedding Celebrations as
Conspicuous Consumption: Signaling Social Status in Rural
14. Sex Workers and The Cost of Safe Sex: The
Compensating Differential for Condom Use in
15. "Experiments in Participatory
Econometrics: Improving the Connection Between Economic Analysis and the Real
World", Economic and Political Weekly May 18th, 2002, 22(20),
1887-91
16. “Terror as a Bargaining Instrument: A Case Study
of Dowry Violence in Rural
17. Statistical Discrimination and Social
Assimilation,” (with Francis Bloch), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 10, #2 ,
2001
18. “Celebrations as Social Investments: Festival
Expenditures, Unit Price Variation and Social Status in Rural
19. ”Poverty and Public Celebrations in Rural
20. “The Marriage Squeeze Interpretation of Dowry
Inflation – Response,” Journal of
Political Economy, December, 2000
21. "Price Heterogeneity and Real
Inequality: A Case-Study of Poverty and
Prices in Rural
22. "Can Economics Mediate the Link Between
Anthropology and Demography?"
Population and Development Review, Vol. 23 #4, Pp:833-38, December 1997
23. "Wife Beating in
Rural
24. "The Marriage
Squeeze and the Rise in Informal Marriage in Brazil," (with Margaret E.
Greene) Social Biology, Vol. 42 #1/2,
Spring 1995 (Also published in an earlier version in Portugese as "A
Compressao do Mercado Matrimonial e o Aumento das Unioes Consensuais no
Brasil," Revista Brasileira De
Estudos De Populâço , V.9 N.2, Jul/Dec. 1992)
25. "The Rising Price
of Husbands: A Hedonic Analysis of Dowry Increases in Rural
26. "Dowry Inflation in
Rural
27. "Diet, Mortality
and Life Expectancy: A Cross-National Analysis," Journal of Population Economics,
Volume 1, #3, 1988, Pp. 225-233
Contributions
to Edited Volumes:
1.
“Decentralization
and Elite Capture: The Selection of Leaders and Beneficiaries in
Community-Driven Projects in
2.
“Symbolic
Public Goods and The Coordination of Collective Action: A Comparison of Local
Development in
3. “Assessing the Karnataka Model of
Development,” Chapter 1 in Challenges of
Karnataka’s Development, edited by Gopal K. Kadekodi, Ravi Kanbur and
Vijayendra Rao, Academic Foundation Press, New Delhi, 2007
4.
“Dowries”
in Kaushik Basu (edited) Oxford Companion
to Economics in India, Oxford University Press,
5.
“Sex
Work” in Kaushik Basu (edited), Oxford
Companion to Economics in India, Oxford University Press,
6.
“Mixing
Qualitative and Econometric Methods: Community-Level Applications,” Chapter 13
in Measuring Empowerment (Deepa
Narayan, editor), The World Bank,
7.
“Culture
and Public Action: Relationality, Equality of Agency and Development,” (with
Michael Walton), Chapter 1 in Culture and Public Action: A
Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy, (Vijayendra Rao and
Michael Walton, editors) Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004
8.
“Conclusion,”
(With Michael Walton), Chapter 16 in Culture and Public Action: A
Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy, (Vijayendra Rao and
Michael Walton, editors) Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004
9.
“Integrating
Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Program Evaluation,” (with Michael Woolcock),
in Francois Bourgingnon and Luiz Pereira Da Silva (edited) Tool Kit for
Evaluating the Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies,
World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2003
10. “Potters and Slums: Two Qualitative and Quantitative Projects in
11.
“Wife-Abuse,
Its Causes and Its Impact on Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural
Karnataka: A Participatory" Econometric Analysis," in Gender,
Population, and Development, M.Krishnaraj, R.Sudarshan, A.Sharif (ed.),
12.
"The
Demand for Dowries and Bride Characteristics in Marriage: Empirical Estimates
for Rural South-Central India," (with Anil Deolalikar,
WORKING PAPERS
1)
“Caste
Mobility in an
2)
“The Political Construction of Caste in
3)
“Just Rewards: Local Politics and Public
Resource Allocation in
4) “Social Networks and Risk Management
Strategies: What do we Know? (with
Jishnu Das and Michael Woolcock), February 2003
5) “Is Community Driven Development Driven by
the Community? An Case-Study of the
6)
“Earnings
and Incentives in Sex Work: An Analysis of the
Sonagachi HIV/AIDS Intervention Project in
7) “The Gift of a Virgin: The Social Context of Child Marriage in Rural
North India," (with Sonalde Desai and B.L. Joshi), mimeo,
8) "Does Prestige Matter? Compensating
Differentials for Social Mobility in the Indian Caste System", Discussion
Paper, 92-6 (PRC),
9) “The Link Between Female Sterilization and
Domestic Violence” (with Anne Waters), University of
10) Bargaining and Fertility in
ONGOING
PROJECTS
1) Policy Research Report
on Local Governance and Community Development (with Ghazala Mansuri)
2) Qualitative and
Quantitative Analysis of the impact of village democratization and
decentralization processes in rural
3) An Impact and Process
Evaluation of Community Driven Development in urban
4) Village Sanitation (with
Monica Das Gupta)
5) Social Change and
Mobility in
SELECTED OPERATIONAL
EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
1.
World Bank – South Asia Social Development
Department – Local Government Accountability in
2.
World Bank, East Asia Urban Department (EASUR),
Evaluation of the Urban Poverty Project II in
3.
World Bank, South Asia Rural Department (SASRD),
Analysis of Panchayat Reform in
4.
World Bank, Operations Evaluation Division (OED),
Team on Evaluation of Social Funds,
5.
Mrichakatika (NGO specializing in income generation among women potters in rural
FIELD EXPERIENCE
1. 1992-94: A total of 4 months of field work on
domestic violence, economic inequality and marriage markets in 3 villages in
2. 1996:
One month of field work on gender equity in 2 villages in UP state in
3. 2000:
One month of field work property rights, risk, and urban governance in 4
slums in
4. 2001: One month of field work on community
based development in
5. 2002: Three weeks of field work on village
government in 4 villages in Tamil Nadu and Kerala states in
6. 2003:
Two weeks of field Work in 3 poor urban areas in Central Java, Indonesia
on community based development
7. 2006: Three weeks of field Work on village
government in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala state in
8. 2006:
One week of field work in South Kalimantan, Indonesia on community based
development
9. 2007:
One week of field work in Raichur District,
SELECTED CONFERENCE
PARTICIPATION AND PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Seminar presentations in 2005-08: George Washington University, University of
British Columbia, Yale University, University of California-Berkeley, World
Bank, Harvard University, University of Wyoming, American University, George
Washington University, SAIS – Johns Hopkins, Delhi School of Economics,
Institute of Development Studies – Sussex, IGIDR – Mumbai, Center for Policy
Research – Delhi, Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore, Institute for
Advanced Study at the Indian Institute of Science– Bangalore, CESS – Hyderabad,
Austrian Diplomatic Academy – Vienna
1) Invited Speaker:
Successful Societies Meeting, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research,
2) Invited Speaker:
Conference on Poverty, Inequality and the State,
3) Invited Speaker:
Conference on Democracy in
4) Invited Speaker:
Conference on Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Govt. of
5) Co-Organizer (with
6) Invited Participant:
Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists Part II –
7) Invited Participant:
Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics –
8) Invited Participant:
Conference on Global Poverty Measurement –
9) Co-Organizer –
Conference on Culture and Public Action – World Bank, June 30-July 1st,
2002
10) Presented Paper, Annual
Conference of the Society for Behavioral Economics,
11) Conference on
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods at
12) Organizer and
Discussant, Session on Community Driven Development, Annual Bank Conference on
Development Economics, May 2001
13) Chair, North American
Universities Development Economics Conference, 2000
14) Discussant and Chair,
Population of
15) Chair and Organizer of
Session on Domestic Violence, Population Association of
16) Panelist: Discussion on
the use of Qualitative and Quantitative Data at the Population Association
of America Annual Meetings, April 1997.
17) Invited Speaker:
MacArthur-NCAER Conference on Gender Issues in Population Health and
Development,
18) Invited Speaker: First
International Conference on Dowry and Bride-Burning in
19) Invited Speaker:
Conference on Anthropological Demography,
20) Invited Speaker:
Conference on Sexual Coercion and Women's Reproductive Health, Population
Council,
Several presentations at AEA Annual Meetings,
Econometric Society, NEUDC (Development Economics) Conference.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses
in 2004
1) Spring Semester -
Masters Course on Economic Development (co-taught
with Garrance Gennicot)
2) World Bank – World Bank
Institute
Courses on Mixed-Methods
Analysis for Poverty Reduction and Evaluation.
(with Michael Woolcock)
Courses
in 2003
World
Bank Institute
Mixed-Methods
Analysis for Poverty Reduction. (with
Michael Woolcock)
Courses
in 2002
World
Bank Institute
Mixed
Methods Analysis for Poverty Reduction (with Michael Woolcock)
The
local measurement of governance effectiveness.
Courses
in 2001
3rd
Nordic Ph.D Workshop in Development Economics,
Lectures
on Culture, and Mixed Methods Analysis in Development
Courses
in 1996-97
Econ
511: Econometrics ( MA Students at the Center for Development Economics)