Culture and Inequality

Vijayendra Rao and Paromita Sanyal, Dignity Through Discourse: Poverty and the Culture of Deliberation in Indian Village Democracies," mimeo, April 2009 (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science - forthcoming)

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. December 2008

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

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

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

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

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

Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton (editors), Culture and Public Action, Stanford 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

Vijayendra Rao, "The Economics of Dowries in India," in Kaushik Basu (editor), Oxford Companion to Economics, Oxford University Press, Delhi (forthcoming) 2006 (See Sudhir Dhar's cartoon on dowries)

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

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