Rikhil R. Bhavnani

Political science doctoral candidate

 

 

Welcome to my homepage.  I am a political science PhD candidate at Stanford University.  My dissertation examines the causes and effects of, and remedies for, political inequality using micro-level political and socio-economic data from India.  My broader research interests include political and economic development, corruption, the politics of federalism, and post-civil war recovery.  I have mainly employed data from South Asia and Africa in my research so far.  My research outputs and contact information are listed below.  Thank you for visiting. 

 

 

Works in progress

·     Can Governments Remedy Political Inequality? Evidence from Randomized Quotas in India. Revise and resubmit, American Political Science Review.

·     Counting Chickens When They Hatch: Disaggregated Aid and Growth with Michael Clemens and Steven Radelet. Revise and resubmit, The Economic Journal.

·     The Disenfranchisement of the Indian Voter: The Effects of Malapportionment in Parliamentary Systems.

·     Is it Time to Withdraw Quotas for India’s Lower Castes?

·     The Costs of Political Coordination in Federations: Evidence from a Natural Public Goods Experiment in India.

·      The Structure and Stability of India’s Political Economy with Sunita Parikh and Barry Weingast.

·      The Effect of Civil War Violence on Post-War Economic Activity in Sierra Leone.

 

Publications

·      Aid and Growth: The Current Debate and Some New Evidence with Steven Radelet and Michael Clemens in The Macroeconomic Management of Foreign Aid edited by Peter Isard and others, 2006 (Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund).

·      Aid and Growth with Michael Clemens and Steven Radelet, Finance and Development 42(3), September 2005.  Reprinted in Annual Editions: Developing World 07/08, edited by Robert J. Griffiths, November 2006 (Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill). 

 

Other papers

·      A Microeconomic View of the Evolution of Poverty and Inequality in Ghana, 1967-1997 with Markus Goldstein.

·      Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The Short-Term Effect of Aid on Growth with Michael Clemens and Steven Radelet, Center for Global Development Working Paper 44, July 2004.

·      The Missing Globalization Puzzle with Arvind Subramanian, Natalia Tamirisa, and David Coe, International Monetary Fund Working Paper WP/02/171, October 2002.

 

Policy papers, notes

·      The Effect of the United States on Poland’s Economic Development, Center for Global Development, 2006. 

·      2004 MCA Country Selection Program: A Comment on Country Selection with Sarah Lucas and Steven Radelet, Center for Global Development, October 2004.

·      2004 MCA Threshold Program: A Comment on Country Selection with Sarah Lucas and Steven Radelet, Center for Global Development, October 2004.

·      Round Two of the MCA: Which Countries are Most Likely to Qualify? with Steven Radelet, Center for Global Development, October 2004.

·      Whither Development Assistance? An Analysis of the President’s 2005 Budget Request with Nancy Birdsall and Isaac Shapiro, Center for Global Development, July 2004. 

·      A Comment on the Millennium Challenge Account Selection Process with Sarah Lucas and Steven Radelet, Center for Global Development, March 2004.

 

 

Department of Political Science

Encina Hall West, Room 100

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305

rbhavnani(at)stanford(dot)edu