Do incidents of ethnic polarization influence voter behavior? I address this question through the case study of India, the world's largest functional democracy. Specifically, I test whether prior events of Hindu-Muslim riots electorally benefit Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), a prominent Hindu...

Economic downturns can create conditions for conflict that may occur along religious or ethnic lines. In this paper, we provide arguably the first empirical evidence of this phenomenon in medieval India. Using centuries of geo-referenced data we document a positive relationship between weather...

In the paper I analyze the effect of population age structure on India’s environment burden. I conduct the analysis for 19 consumption sectors using an extension of IPAT framework. Results show that the per capita environment burden peaks for the age cohort between forty-one and fifty and...