Vijayendra Rao

Papers:

Michael Woolcock, Simon Szreter and Vijayendra Rao, Why and How Does History Matter for Development Policy," mimeo, August 2008

Radu Ban and Vijayendra Rao, "Is Deliberation Equitable? Evidence from Transcripts of Village Meetings in Rural India," mimeo, Development Research Group, The World Bank. August 2008

Vijayendra Rao, "The Technology of Cultural Change in Rural India," background note for the World Development Report 2008

Monica Das Gupta, Samuel H. Preston, Vijayendra Rao, and TV Sekhar, "PN Mari Bhat: An Intellectual Tribute," Economic and Political Weekly, September 8 2007, Pp: 3611-3615

Vijayendra Rao and Radu Ban, The Political Construction of Caste in South India, mimeo, August 2007

Radu Ban and Vijayendra Rao, Tokenism Versus Agency: The Impact of Women's Reservations on Panchayats in South India, Economic Development and Cultural Change, (forthcoming), 2007

Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock, "The Disciplinary Monopoly in Development Research at the World Bank," Global Governance 13, 2007, Pp479-484

Ravi Kanbur, Gopal Kadekodi, Vijayendra Rao, "Governance and the Karnataka Model of Development" Economic and Political Weekly, February 24, 2007 Pp: 649-652

Tim Besley, Rohini Pande and Vijayendra Rao, "The Political Economy of Gram Panchayats in Karnataka," Economic and Political Weekly, February 24, 2007 Pp: 661-666

Vijayendra Rao, "Book Review of Tim Dyson, Robert Cassen, Leela Visaria (eds.) Twenty-First Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development and Environment, Oxford University Press, 2004," Population and Development Review 32(2), June 2006

Vijayendra Rao, "On 'Inequality Traps' and Development Policy," Development Outreach, Vol. 8, No. 1, February 2006

Vijayendra Rao, "The Economics of Dowries in India," in Kaushik Basu (editor), The Oxford Companion to Economics in India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2007

Vijayendra Rao, "Symbolic Public Goods and the Coordination of Collective Action: A Comparison of Local Development in India and Indonesia," Chapter 10 in Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray (edited) The Contested Commons: Conversations Between Economists and Anthropologists, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008

Saumitra Jha, Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock, "Governance in the Gullies: Democratic Responsiveness and Leadership in Delhi's Slums," World Development, (forthcoming), 2006

Tim Besley, Rohini Pande and Vijayendra Rao, "Just Rewards: Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India," mimeo, October 2007

Vijayendra Rao and Ana Maria Ibanez, “The Social Impact of Social Funds In Jamaica: A "Participatory Econometric" Analysis of Participation, Targeting, and Collective Action in Community-Driven Development, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 41, Number 5, Pp: 788-838, July 2005

Tim Besley, Rohini Pande, and Vijayendra Rao, "Partcipatory Democracy in Action: Survey Evidence from Rural India," Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005

Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao, “Community Based (and Driven) Development: A Critical Review,” The World Bank Research Observer, vol. 19, no. 1 (2004), pp. 1-39

Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock, “Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Program Evaluation,” Chapter 8 in Francois Bourguignon and Luiz A. Pereira da Silva (editors), The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools, World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2004.

Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton, "Culture and Public Action: Relationality, Equality of Agency and Development"  in Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton (edited), Culture and Public Action, Stanford University Press, 2004.

Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton, "Conclusion: Implications of Cultural Lens for Development Policy and Thought,” in Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton (editors), Culture and Public Action, Stanford University Press, 2004.

Francis Bloch, Vijayendra Rao and Sonal Desai, "Wedding Celebrations as Conspicuous Consumption: Signaling Social Status in Rural India," Journal of Human Resources Volume XXXIX, Number 3, Summer 2004

Tim Besley, Rohini Pande, Lupin Rahman and Vijayendra Rao, "The Politics of Public Good Provision: Evidence From Indian Local Governments," Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May 2004

Lupin Rahman and Vijayendra Rao, "The Determinants of Gender Equity in India: Examining Dyson and Moore's Thesis with New Data", Population and Development Review, 30(2), Pp: 239-268, June 2004(This is an electronic version of an article published in Population and Development Review. Complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Population and Development Review, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal’s website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdr or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com)

Vijayendra Rao, Indrani Gupta, Michael Lokshin and Smarajit Jana, “Sex Workers and The Cost of Safe Sex: The Compensating Differential for Condom Use in Calcutta," Journal of Development Economics, Volume 71, Issue 2 , August 2003, Pages 585-603

Francis Bloch and Vijayendra Rao, "Terror as Bargaining Instrument: A Case-Study of Dowry Violence in Rural India," American Economic Review, September 2002

Vijayendra Rao, "Experiments in Participatory Econometrics: Improving the Connection Between Economic Analysis and the Real World", Economic and Political Weekly May 18th, 2002, 22(20), Pp:1887-1891

Vijayendra Rao, " Poverty and Public Celebrations in Rural India" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 573, Pp: 85-104, 2001

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

Francis Bloch and Vijayendra Rao, "Statistical Discrimination and Social Assimilation," , Economics Bulletin (2001), Vol. 10 no. 2 pp. 1-5

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

Vijayendra Rao, "Price Heterogeneity and Real Inequality: A Case-Study of Prices and Poverty in Rural South India,"  Review of Income and Wealth, Series 46 #2, Pp: 201-212, June 2000.

Vijayendra Rao, "Domestic Violence and Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Karnataka: An Exercise in 'Participatory Econometrics'," in Gender, Population, and Development, M.Krishnaraj,R.Sudarshan, A.Sharif (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1998

Anil Deolalikar and Vijayendra Rao, "The Demand for Dowries and Bride Characteristics in Marriage: Empirical Estimates for Rural South-Central India," in Gender, Population, and Development, M.Krishnaraj,R.Sudarshan, A.Sharif (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1998.

Vijayendra Rao, "Can Economics Mediate the Link Between Anthropology and Demography?"  Population and Development Review, December 1997

Vijayendra Rao, "Wife Beating in Rural South India: A Qualitative and Econometric Analysis," Social Science and Medicine , Vol. 44, # 8, Pp. 1169-1180, April 1997. (See "Domestic Violence and Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Karnataka: An Exercise in 'Participatory Econometrics' for an expanded and more comprehensive version of this paper).

Vijayendra Rao, "The Rising Price of Husbands: A Hedonic Analysis of Dowry Increases in Rural India", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 101, #4, August 1993.

Vijayendra Rao, "Dowry Inflation in Rural India: A Statistical Investigation," Population Studies, Vol. 47, July 1993

Vijayendra Rao, "Diet, Mortality and Life Expectancy: A Cross National Analysis", Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 1 #3, February 1989