Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• [9] Krishna, Anirudh, Sujeet Kumar & Emily Rains. 2023. “A Range of Informality Across Cities and Slums: Understanding Precarity in Patna’s Slums Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of South Asian Development.

• [8] Barnes, Carolyn, Jamila Michener & Emily Rains. 2023. “‘It’s Like Night and Day’: How Bureaucratic Encounters Vary Across WIC, SNAP, and Medicaid.” Social Service Review.

• [7] Rains, Emily. 2022. “An Evolving Threat to Life and Livelihoods: Comparing the Health, Economic, and Political Implications of the First Two Waves of COVID-19 in Bengaluru and Patna slums.” Environment & Urbanization. [PDF]

• [6] Rains, Emily & Erik Wibbels. 2022. “Informal Work, Risk and Clientelism: Evidence from 223 Slums Across India.” British Journal of Political Science. [PDF] [Replication data]

• [5] Downs-Tepper, Harlan, Anirudh Krishna & Emily Rains. 2021. “A Threat to Life and Livelihoods: Examining the Effects of Covid-19 on Health and Well-being in Bengaluru and Patna Slums.” Environment and Urbanization. [PDF]

• [4] Rains, Emily & Anirudh Krishna. 2020. “Precarious gains: Social mobility and volatility in urban slums.” World Development 132 (2000): 105001. [PDF]

• [3] Krishna, Anirudh, Emily Rains & Erik Wibbels. 2020. “Negotiating Informality – Ambiguity, Intermediation, and a Patchwork of Outcomes in Slums of Bengaluru.” The Journal of Development Studies 56(11): 1983-99. [PDF]

• [2] Rains, Emily, Anirudh Krishna & Erik Wibbels. 2019. “Combining satellite and survey data to study Indian slums: evidence on the range of conditions and implications for urban policy.” Environment and Urbanization 31(1): 267-292. [PDF]

• [1] Rains, Emily & Ronald Abraham. 2018. “Rethinking barriers to electrification: Does government collection failure stunt public service provision?” Energy Policy 114: 288-300. [PDF]

Book Chapters

• [1] Rains, Emily & Anirudh Krishna. 2021. “Informalities, volatility, and precarious social mobility in urban slums.” In Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants, ed. Iversen, V., Krishna, A. & Sen, K. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [PDF]

Policy Reports and Other Writing

• “A continuum of living conditions and property rights in Indian slums.” (with Anirudh Krishna). Centre for Policy Research, India Housing Report, February 23, 2022.

• “State of Working India 2021: One year of Covid-19.” (Background contributor with Harlan Downs-Tepper & Anirudh Krishna). Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, 2021.

• “COVID-19 in slum communities of Patna and Bengaluru: Economic versus health impact.” (with Harlan Downs-Tepper & Anirudh Krishna). International Growth Centre Policy Brief, March 2021.

• “India needs policy intervention to uplift its urban poor.” (With Anirudh Krishna). LiveMint, October 28, 2020.

• “The virus has exposed India’s Dickensian urbanization.” (With Anirudh Krishna). LiveMint, October 21, 2020.

• “A localized approach to address the economic fallout of covid-19.” (With Harlan Downs-Tepper). LiveMint, September 23, 2020.

• “Studying the Real Slums of Bengaluru.” (with Anirudh Krishna, Jeremy Spater & Erik Wibbels). Property Rights Research Consortium, May 2018.

• “Paying for Power: The Political Economy of Energy Insolvency in Bihar, India.” Global Energy Access Network Case Studies, Duke University, 2017.