Rent-Seeking and Criminal Politicians: Evidence from Mining Booms (with Sam Asher)
(Conditionally accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics)

Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction (with Anjali Adukia and Sam Asher)
AEJ: Applied Economics 12:1 (2020)

The Ecological Footprint of Transportation Infrastructure (with Sam Asher and Teevrat Garg)
Forthcoming at the Economic Journal

Who Runs the International System? Nationality and Leadership in the United Nations Secretariat (with Eric Werker)
The Review of International Organizations 14:1 (2019)
→ Replication files and data on nationality of senior UN staff (1947-2013).

Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India (with Sam Asher)
AEJ: Applied Economics 9:1 (2017).
→ Replication code and data posted at AEJ:Applied Economics.

Mortality Change Among Less Educated Americans (with Sam Asher and Charlie Rafkin) (Revise and Resubmit at AEJ: Applied Economics)
→ Replication/methods code: github/paulnov/paper-nra-mortality

Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Methods and Estimates Across Time, Space, and Communities (with Sam Asher and Charlie Rafkin) (submitted)
→ Fact Sheet for media.
→ All-India mobility map.
→ Interactive Delhi mobility map.
→ Code for generating bottom half mobility (μ-0-50), all-India town, subdistrict, and district-level local mobility estimates: github/paulnov/paper-anr-mobility-india

Moment Forests (with Denis Nekipelov and Stephen P. Ryan) NBER Working Paper No. 22976 (submitted)

The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic panel for India (SHRUG) (with Sam Asher, Toby Lunt, and Ryu Matsuura)
(Revise and resubmit at World Bank Economic Review)
→ SHRUG Codebook
→ Download the SHRUG

Residential Segregation in Urban India (with Anjali Adukia, Sam Asher, and Brandon Tan)

Predicting Poverty Using Daytime Imagery (with Tony Duan, Elliott Chartock, Haque Ishfaq, Sam Asher, Marshall Burke, David Lobell and Stefano Ermon)

The Cost of Distance: Geography and Governance in Rural India (with Sam Asher and Karan Nagpal)

 Digging for Development: Economic Impacts of Mining Booms (with Sam Asher)

The Cost of Road Infrastructure in Tanzania (with Sam Asher and Martina Kirchberger)

Regulation Intensity, Rents and the Sectoral Concentration of Wealth (with Sam Asher and Michael Walton)

The Impacts of Local Control over Political Institutions: Evidence from State Splitting in India (with Sam Asher)

Getting Signal from Interval Data: Theory and Applications to Mortality and Intergenerational Mobility (with Sam Asher and Charlie Rafkin)
→ This methods paper has been integrated into the mortality and mobility papers above and retired.