Rikhil
R. Bhavnani
Political
Science doctoral candidate
Welcome to my
homepage. I am a PhD candidate in
political science at Stanford University.
My dissertation—“On Political Inequality: Measurement, Causes, Effects and
Remedies”—seeks to catalyze a research program on political inequality. I
generate a protocol to measure the phenomenon, and examine the causes and
effects of, and remedies for, political inequality. The dissertation demonstrates that political
inequality is measureable and is amenable to study, and advances our
understanding of the phenomenon. In some
of my other research, I examine the extent and correlates of political
corruption in India and the costs of federalism. My research is characterized by an interest
in political and economic development, in South Asia, and by a close attention
to causality. My research outputs (parts
of my dissertation are marked by an asterisk) and contact information are
listed below. Here is my CV. Thank you for visiting.
Publications
·
* Do
Electoral Quotas Work After They Are Withdrawn?
Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India,
American Political Science Review 103
(1):23-35, 2009. Here is the replication data and code, and a summary (with
Dustin Brown) of the article in the Indian
Express.
· 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).
Work-in-progress
·
Counting Chickens
When They Hatch: Disaggregated Aid and Growth,
with Michael Clemens and Steven Radelet, reject/revise, The
Economic Journal. A previous version
of the paper was issued as Center for
Global Development Working Paper 44, July 2004, and was referred to in a Washington Post editorial.
·
* What Have the Lasting Effects of Electoral
Quotas for Lower Castes Been? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India.
·
Corruption
Amongst India’s Politicians: Insights from Unusual Data.
·
The Costs of Political Coordination in
Federations: Evidence from a Natural Public Goods Experiment in India.
·
The Effects of Migration on the Political
Process and Public Goods Provisioning: Evidence from New Data from Kerala, with Maggie
Peters.
·
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.
Other papers
·
A
Microeconomic View of the Evolution of Poverty and Inequality in Ghana,
1967-1997 with
· The Missing Globalization Puzzle with Arvind Subramanian, Natalia Tamirisa, and David Coe, International Monetary Fund Working Paper WP/02/171, October 2002.
Software
· RB-AMIN.exe: A Tool to “Fuzzy” Match Indian Names.
Policy papers, notes
·
The Effect of the
· 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
rbhavnani(at)stanford(dot)edu