We revisit the negative association between ethnic diversity and development. We show how the diversity-development association is conditional on spatial segregation. We introduce a new census-scale micro-dataset from the Indian state of Karnataka (n= 36.5 million rural residents). Using the...

“Inclusive growth” has emerged as a catch-all term for describing the distributional consequences of economic growth. However, there are no widely accepted metrics to quantify inclusive growth. We develop a simple metric based on Atkinson’s classic inequality measure. Our metric, like the...

Many developing countries have reorganized their subnational administrative boundaries as a part of administrative reforms and decentralization. Theoretically, administrative proliferation can lead to better developmental outcomes by better managing ethnic heterogeneity, bring public services...

We revisit the negative association between ethnic diversity and development. We show how the diversity-development association is conditional on spatial segregation. We introduce a new census-scale micro-dataset from the Indian state of Karnataka (n = 36.5 million rural residents). Using the...

We develop a formal framework to investigate the relationship between ecological economics' concept of scale, and the more traditional concerns of allocation, and distribution. The framework presented here helps clarify differences between the normative and positive aspects of scale, allocation,...

We develop a formal representation of the economy-ecosystem interaction problem by distinguishing between stock-flow, and fund-flux spaces (Georgescu-Roegen, 1971). We then define dimensionless quantities in both the cardinal stock-flow space and the ordinal fund-flux space. This leads to...

Thin film solar photovoltaic (PV) technology, especially installations based on cadmium-telluride PV cells (CdTe) are expected to play a major role in future expansion of the global installed base of solar power. India's National Solar Mission (JNNSM) is an ambitious program to bootstrap the...

This paper explores the association between short-term migration in the household and feminization of farm management in rural India. The analysis uses a nationally representative data set covering 35,604 rural Indian households in the year 2013. There is gender disaggregated information on who...