Research

Publications/Ongoing Research

• The evolution of wealth-income ratios in India 1860-2012 (working paper)
  (New! September 2018) Supplementary materials
• Top Indian wealth shares and inheritances, 1966-85 (working paper)
  (Revises past draft. February 2019) Supplementary database
• Demand driven growth and two class capital distribution with applications to the United States with Christian Schoder and Siavash Radpour 
  Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Volume 47 (2018)
  Preprint (free access)
  
• Two class statistical distribution of income in India: Evidence from 2012-13 income tax data
  Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 52 (2017)
  Ungated copy (free access)
• Wage increases, transfers, and the socially determined income distribution in the USA with Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai and Nelson Barbosa
  Review of Keynesian Economics, Volume 5 (2017)
  Ungated copy (free access)
  Media mentions: Huffington Post 1  and Huffington Post 2
• Personal savings from top incomes and household wealth accumulation in the United States: Results from disaggregated national accounts
  International Journal of Political Economy, Volume 45 (2016).
• United States size distribution and the macroeconomy 1986-2009 with Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai, Laura Carvalho and Nelson Barbosa
  Link to book (publisher’s page)
  Appears in Damill, M., Rapetti, M. and Rozenwurcel, G. eds., 2016.
  Macroeconomics and Development: Roberto Frenkel and the Economics of Latin America.
  Columbia University Press

Work in progress 

• India macro-historical database (ongoing)
• Aggregate capital-labor inequality and Lewis type puzzles: Evidence from India 1960-2012 with Rahul Menon (ongoing)

Writing for newspapers/general audiences:

• If India gave minimum support incomes to the rich before, it can do the same for the poor. Rahul Gandhi can do it
  Developing Economics, February 2019
  Computations (Excel format)
• The double-edged sword of income inequality data in India
  The Hindu, September 2018
  Computations (Excel format)
  
• Indian economic growth is being surpassed by wealth accumulation. Again.
  London School of Economics, South Asia@LSE, March 2018
• Not just r > g but r + q >> g: Piketty meets Ricardo in the long run of Indian history
  Developing Economics, February 2018
• The return of India’s super rich
  Livemint, September 2017
• Capital is back? The fall and rise of the rich in India
  The Hindu, September 2017
• What we know about the wealthy
  Business Standard, October 2016 
  (Reprinted from Ideas for India)

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