Aaditya Dar Economist
Papers
Publications

Blakeslee, David, Aaditya Dar, Ram Fishman, Samreen Malik, Heitor Pelegrina, Karan Singh. 2023. “Irrigation and the Spatial Pattern of Local Economic Development in India”. Journal of Development Economics, 161, 102997. BibTeX. Paper. Data

Bhattarai, Nishan, Adrienne Pollack, David B. Lobell, Ram Fishman, Balwinder Singh, Aaditya Dar, and Meha Jain. 2021. “The Impact of Groundwater Depletion on Agricultural Production in India.” Environmental Research Letters, July. BibTeX. Paper.

von der Goltz, Jan ⓡ Aaditya Dar ⓡ Ram Fishman ⓡ Nathaniel D. Mueller ⓡ Prabhat Barnwal ⓡ and Gordon C. McCord. 2020. “Health Impacts of the Green Revolution: Evidence from 600,000 births across the Developing World.” Journal of Health Economics 74 (December): 102373. BibTeX. Paper.

Working papers

Dar, Aaditya, Ram Fishman and Meha Jain. 2020. “The Groundwater Constraint: Responses to Falling Water Tables in India”. BibTeX. Paper.

Dar, Aaditya. 2019. “All is Water: Technological Complementarities and Path Dependence in Indian Agriculture”. BibTeX. Paper.

Dar, Aaditya. 2019. “Parachuters vs. Climbers: Economic Consequences of Barriers to Political Entry in a Democracy”. BibTeX. Paper.

Dar, Aaditya and Abhilasha Sahay. 2018. “Designing Policy in Weak States: Unintended Consequences of Alcohol Prohibition in Bihar”. BibTeX. Paper.

Dar, Aaditya, Pranav Gupta and Rahul Verma. 2018. “Electoral Cycles in Food Prices: Evidence from India”. BibTeX. Paper.

Dar, Aaditya, Chinmaya Kumar and Pankaj Verma. 2018. “Reducing Corruption in Bihar’s Public Distribution System”. BibTeX. Paper.

Work in progress

Bureaucracy and Digital Governance (with Aprajit Mahajan and Prabhat Barnwal)

Political Selection and Group Size (with Srinivasan Vasudevan)

Public or Private Leviathan? Crime and Development in Contemporary Bihar (with Ashwani Kumar)