Working Papers

 

Patna, India

Working Papers

  • [7] “(When) Does Informal Labor Close Political Gender Gaps? Theory and Evidence from Urban India” Revise and resubmit at Studies in Comparative International Development.

  • [6] “Toward a Local View of Ethnic Polarization and Political Mobilization: Evidence from Urban India” (with Jeremy Spater) Under review.

  • [5] “The Political and Economic Determinants of Slum Evictions: Evidence from Patna, India” (with Harlan Downs-Tepper & Mateo Villamizar-Chaparro) Under review.

  • [4] “Gender Stereotypes Across Electoral Contexts” (with Anna Gunderson, Nichole Bauer, and Annie Sheehan-Dean) Under review.

  • [3] “The Gender Digital Divide and Gender Gaps in Collective Action” (with Tiffany Barnes, Jakana Thomas & Jingwen Wu) Under review.

  • [2] “Where Women Are Also Clients: Gender, Informality and Collective Mobilization in Urban Slums” Draft available upon request.

  • [1] “Gatekeeping Women’s Property Rights: Evidence from a Land Titling Program in Urban Mozambique” (with Heather Huntington) Draft in preparation.

Select Ongoing and Early Stage Projects

  • Negotiating Informality, Negotiating Citizenship: How Neighborhood Characteristics Shape Political Behavior in Urban Slums (book project based on dissertation, which received Best Dissertation Award in Urban and Local Politics, American Political Science Association (2022))

  • Claim Making Strategies Across India’s Informal Settlements

  • Networks and Neighborhoods: Toward a Two-Dimensional Explanation of Development in Urban Slums

  • Exploring Gender Gaps in Preferences, Political Behavior, and Leadership in Indian Slums (supported by The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network)

  • (Informal) Home Ownership, Clientelism, and the Urban Tenure Continuum (with Tanu Kumar)

  • Vulnerability to Climate Change and Preferences for Policy Responses in Indian Slums (with Alicia Cooperman)

  • Digital Gender Gaps and Political Gender Gaps in the Global South (with Tiffany Barnes, Jakana Thomas, and Jingwen Wu)

  • Citizen-led Expansion and Informality in India’s Urban Peripheries (with Adam Auerbach and Tanu Kumar)

  • Middle Class Attitudes Toward Urban Slum Residents: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines (with Dean Dulay)

  • Intrahousehold Preferences Over Women’s Labor in the Informal Urban Economy: Experimental Evidence from India (with Rashi Sabherwal and Erik Wibbels)