Sandip Sukhtankar - Research

Peer-reviewed Publications:

The Marginal Rate of Corruption in Public Programs: Evidence from India, with Paul Niehaus (UCSD). Forthcoming, Journal of Public Economics [Latest version, May 2013] A previous version circulated under the title "Marginal Leakage and Public Programs".

Corruption Dynamics: The Golden Goose Effect, with Paul Niehaus (UCSD). Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy [Latest version, Aug 2012] [BREAD Working Paper Version]

Sweetening the Deal? Political Connections and Sugar Mills in India American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol 4, no 3, pp 43-63, July 2012. [Paper] [Data] [Appendix]

Does Happiness Pay? An Exploration Based On Panel Data from Russia, with Carol Graham (Brookings) and Andrew Eggers (LSE). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol 55, no 3, pp 319-342, Nov 2004.

Does Economic Crisis Reduce Support for Markets and Democracy in Latin America? Some Evidence from Surveys of Public Opinion and Well Being, with Carol Graham (Brookings). Journal of Latin American Studies, vol 36, no 2, pp 349-377, May 2004.

Working Papers:

Much Ado about Nothing? Corruption in the Allocation of Wireless Spectrum in India. Under review [Latest version, Apr 2013]

Ownership Structure and Economic Outcomes: The Case of Sugar Mills in India, with Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard). [draft available on request]

Policy and Other Writing:

Two Questions about the 2G Scam. Ideas for India, March, 2013 [Online version]

Corruption in MGNREGA. Ideas for India, July, 2012 [Online version]

What Determines MGNREGA Wages? Some Evidence on Voice and Exit from Orissa. India in Transition, April 9, 2012 [Published version]

The Right to Choose your Food, joint with Karthik Muralidharan and Paul Niehaus (both UCSD). Op-ed, The Indian Express, August 2, 2011 [Published version] [Original version]

Assessing the Scope for Cash Transfers in lieu of the TPDS in Rural and Urban Bihar, joint with Karthik Muralidharan and Paul Niehaus (both UCSD). [Policy report]

The Bigger They are, the Harder They Fall: The Cost of the Crisis in Corporate Governance, joint with Carol Graham and Robert Litan (both Brookings). Milken Institute Review, 5(1): First Quarter 2003, pp 37-45.