Gaurav Khanna

I. Working Papers:

1. "The IT Boom And Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream" (with Nicolas Morales)

reject and resubmit at the American Economic Review

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2. "Traditional Institutions in Modern Times: Dowries as Pensions When Sons Migrate" (with Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, and Alessandra Voena) revise and resubmit at the Quarterly Journal of Economics 

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3. "The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China" (with Wenquan Liang, A Mushfiq Mobarak and Ran Song) revise and resubmit at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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4. "Supply Chain Resilience: Evidence from Indian Firms" (with Nicolas Morales and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar) revise and resubmit at American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

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5. "Cultural Proximity and Production Networks" (with Brian Cevallos Fujiy and Hiroshi Toma)

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6. "Extending the Social Safety Net: Female Labor Supply and Rural Pension Eligibility in Brazil" (with Margaret Lay, Stephanie Lee, and Benjamin Thompson)

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7. "Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development" (with Emir Murathanoglu, Caroline Theoharides and Dean Yang)

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8. "Production Networks and Firm-Level Elasticities of Substitution" (with Brian Cevallos Fujiy and Devaki Ghose)

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9. "Shared Identity and Entrepreneurship" (with Manaswini Bhalla, Ishani Chatterjee and Manisha Goel)

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10. "Spatial Mobility, Economic Opportunity, and Crime" (with Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Daniel Ramos, Jorge Tamayo and Audrey Tiew)

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11. "Endogenous Production Networks and Firm Dynamics" (with Anuraag Aekka)

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II. Publications:

Journal Publications:

1. "Political Accountability for Populist Policies: Lessons from India's Demonetization" (with Priya Mukherjee)

 Journal of Public Economics, Vol 219, March 2023, 104819

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2. "Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia" (with Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo) The Economic Journal, 4 April 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead025

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3. "Trade Liberalization and Chinese Students in US Higher Education" (with Kevin Shih, Ariel Weinberger, Mingzhi Xu and Miaojie Yu) Review of Economics and Statistics, 23 October 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01378

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4. “Large-scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India”

 Journal of Political Economy, vol 131(2), February 2023  [presentation slides]

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5. "Women's Well-being During a Pandemic and its Containment" (with Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, Manisha Shah, Sreyashi Sharmin and Alessandra Voena) Journal of Development Economics, vol 156, March 2022, 102839

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6. "Job Loss, Credit and Crime in Colombia" (with Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Christian Posso and Jorge Tamayo)

 American Economic Review: Insights vol 3(1), p 97-114, March 2021

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7. "Resources, Conflict and Economic Development in Africa" (with Ach Adhvaryu, James Fenske and Anant Nyshadham)

 Journal of Development Economics, vol 149, March 2021, 102598

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8. "The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System" (with John Bound, Breno Braga and Sarah Turner)  Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol 35(1), Winter 2021

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9. "The  Effects  of  Elite  Public  Colleges  on  Primary  and Secondary  Schooling  Markets  in  India” (with Maulik Jagnani)

Journal of Development Economics, vol 146 (2020)

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10. “Does Affirmative Action Incentivize Schooling? Evidence from India" Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol 102(2),May 2020        (Old title: "Incentivizing Standards and Standardizing Incentives: Affirmative Action in India”)

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11. "A Passage to America: University Funding and International Students” (with John Bound, Breno Braga and Sarah Turner)

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol 12 Issue 1, February 2020

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12. "Reservoir of Foreign Talent” (with John Bound & Nicolas Morales) Science vol. 356, Issue 6339, pp. 697, May 2017

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13. “Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development” (with Laura Zimmermann)

Journal of Development Economics, vol 124, January 2017, p 120-141

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14. “Recruitment of Foreigners in the Market for Computer Scientists in the US” (with John Bound, Breno Braga and Joe Golden) -

Journal of Labor Economics, vol 33, part 2, July 2015, p S187-S233

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IV. Book Chapters & Other Publications:

1. “Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle-income Countries” (with David Newhouse and Pierella Paci) chapter in Working through the Crisis: Jobs and Policies in Developing Countries during the Great Recession December 2013. IZA Working Paper Version

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2. "Fighting Maoist violence with promises: Evidence from India’s Employment Guarantee Scheme" (with Laura Zimmerman -

The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, vol 9, no. 1, 2014)

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3. "Finishing Degrees And Finding Jobs” (with John Bound, Murat Demirci, and Sarah Turner - chapter in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 15, William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, editors)

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4.  "Understanding the Economic Impact of the H-1B Program on the US” (with John Bound & Nicolas Morales) - ungated version

(chapter in “High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences” eds. Gordon Hanson, William Kerr and Sarah Turner)

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5. "High-Skill Immigration, Innovation, and Creative Destruction" (with Munseob Lee) chapter in book The Role of Immigrants and Foreign Students in Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, (Ina Ganguli, Shulamit Kahn, Megan MacGarvie)

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6. "Public Universities: The Supply Side of Building a Skilled Workforce" (with John Bound, Breno Braga and Sarah Turner) RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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7. "Better Migrant Rights Help Native Workers" Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs (UCLA Law)

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8. "How Higher Education Became an Important US Export" Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 2021. National Academy of Sciences

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V. Other Media:

a. On Development Economics:

i. "Transit Networks and Regional Development in India" - (Ideas for India 2015)

ii. "Quotas and Schooling Decisions"  - (Ideas for India 2014)

iii. "Maoist Violence and MNREGA" -(Ideas for India 2015)

iv. "What are Schools Worth? That Depends on the General Equilibrium Effects" - (World Bank Blog)

v. "Development For Peace: The Decline Of Naxalite Violence In India" - (Sustainable Security - Oxford Research Group)

vi. "The Development of Modern Africa: Conflict, Resources and Institutions" - (Vox Dev 2018)

vii. "Does affirmative action incentivise schooling?" - (Vox Dev 2019)

viii. "The Electoral Consequences of India's Demonetization" - (Ideas for India 2020)

ix. "Covid and containment worsened women’s mental health, increased food insecurity in India" - (Ideas for India 2021, the Print 2021)

x. "Women's wellbeing during a pandemic and its containment" - VoxDev and VoxEU 2021

xi. "The productivity consequences of pollution-induced migration in China" - VoxEU 2021 and VoxDev 2022

xii. "What are the long-term returns to large-scale education expansions?" VoxDev, 2023

xii. Podcasts: Probable Causation: Employment and Crime in Colombia

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b. On International Students at US Universities:

Blogs (Center for Global Development): "How the US Immigration Ban Hurts Students, Universities, and the US Economy”

"How Liberalizing Trade with China Led to a Boom in International Students in the US" and VoxChina

Podcasts (with Michael Clemens)  "The Evidence on Immigrants”

Op-Eds: "Fewer international students could become a problem for US universities" The Hill, July 2018.

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c. On the H-1B Program and High-Skill Worker Migration:

i. Blogs: "How the American dream led to India’s IT boom” (Ideas for India 2017)

ii. TV and Radio Interviews: Bloomberg (TV), Al Jazeera, CNBC (TV), Fox5 San Diego (TV), AirTalk (Radio: NPR affiliate)

iii. Op-Eds: "Can the Indian IT sector overcome the H-1B hurdles?" India Global Business, October 2017.

"Hiring highly educated immigrants leads to more innovation and better products" The Conversation, September 2018.

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VI. On the Backburner:

1. "The Effectiveness of Decentralize Education Programs: A Multi-Dimensional Regression Discontinuity Approach"

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2. "High-Skill Immigration and Consumer Welfare" (with Munseob Lee)

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3. "Road Oft Taken: The Route to Spatial Development"

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