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The Causal Impact of Women’s Age at Marriage on Domestic Violence in India (2021)
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Roychowdhury, P., & Dhamija, G. (2021). The Causal Impact of Women’s Age at Marriage on Domestic Violence in India. Feminist Economics, 27(3), 188-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2021.1910721

This study examines the causal effect of women’s age at marriage on prevalence of domestic violence using newly available household data from India. The paper employs an empirical strategy that utilizes variation in age at menarche to obtain exogenou... Read More about The Causal Impact of Women’s Age at Marriage on Domestic Violence in India.

Income Distribution and Trade Pattern (2020)
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Marjit, S., Oladi, R., & Roychowdhury, P. (2020). Income Distribution and Trade Pattern. Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 71(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1515/roe-2018-0029

Motivated by recent insights from behavioral economics and social psychology, we present a theory of trade that seeks to explain inter-industry trade between countries that are similar in their production sides, but dier in their income distribution.... Read More about Income Distribution and Trade Pattern.

Age at Marriage and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India (2020)
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Dhamija, G., & Roychowdhury, P. (2020). Age at Marriage and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India. Journal of International Development, 32(3), 342-374. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3456

© 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. We examine the relationship between women's age at marriage and their labour market outcomes using nationally representative household data from India. Employing an instrumental variable-based empirical strategy, we f... Read More about Age at Marriage and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India.

The Impact of Terrorism on Social Capital: Evidence from the 2015 Charlie Hebdo Paris Shooting (2019)
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McCoy, S. J., Mcdonough, I. K., & Roychowdhury, P. (2020). The Impact of Terrorism on Social Capital: Evidence from the 2015 Charlie Hebdo Paris Shooting. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 82(3), 526-548. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12343

© 2019 The Department of Economics, University of Oxford and John Wiley & Sons Ltd We examine the impact of terrorism on social capital by exploiting variation in the 2014 European Social Survey administration dates coupled with the 2015 Charlie He... Read More about The Impact of Terrorism on Social Capital: Evidence from the 2015 Charlie Hebdo Paris Shooting.

Exploring the dynamics of racial food security gaps in the United States (2019)
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Mcdonough, I. K., Roy, M., & Roychowdhury, P. (2019). Exploring the dynamics of racial food security gaps in the United States. Review of Economics of the Household, 1-26

Household-level food insecurity is one of the largest public health concerns facing millions of people in the United States today. Although recent work has highlighted gaps in food security rates between minority and non-Hispanic white households, li... Read More about Exploring the dynamics of racial food security gaps in the United States.

Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States (2019)
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Millimet, D. L., Millimet, D. L., Li, H., & Roychowdhury, P. (2019). Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 38(4), 732-753. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.2019.1569527

The economic mobility of individuals and households is of fundamental interest. While many measures of economic mobility exist, reliance on transition matrices remains pervasive due to simplicity and ease of interpretation. However, estimation of tra... Read More about Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States.

Peer effects in consumption in India: An instrumental variables approach using negative idiosyncratic shocks (2018)
Journal Article
Roychowdhury, P. (2019). Peer effects in consumption in India: An instrumental variables approach using negative idiosyncratic shocks. World Development, 114, 122-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.09.028

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This paper examines peer effects in consumption in context of a less developed country. Specifically, the question that I seek to answer is whether consumption expenditure of a household is influenced by that of its peers in a les... Read More about Peer effects in consumption in India: An instrumental variables approach using negative idiosyncratic shocks.

Visible consumption, relative deprivation, and health: evidence from a developing country (2018)
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Roychowdhury, P. (2018). Visible consumption, relative deprivation, and health: evidence from a developing country. Economics Bulletin, 38(3), 1366-1380

Empirical research that explores the psychosocial relationship between relative deprivation (RD) and health has measured RD in terms of income although income is not easily observable. I extend this literature by shifting the focus from income to its... Read More about Visible consumption, relative deprivation, and health: evidence from a developing country.

Visible inequality, status competition, and conspicuous consumption: evidence from rural India (2016)
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Roychowdhury, P. (2017). Visible inequality, status competition, and conspicuous consumption: evidence from rural India. Oxford Economic Papers, 69(1), 36-54. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpw056

© Oxford University Press 2016. All rights reserved. If individuals care about their status, defined as their rank in the distribution of conspicuous consumption, a fall in the level of visible inequality is likely to cause them to spend more on cons... Read More about Visible inequality, status competition, and conspicuous consumption: evidence from rural India.