Dilip Mookherjee

Boston University - Department of Economics

270 Bay State Road

Boston, MA 02215

United States

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Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-29
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 06 Aug 2015
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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agricultural finance, middlemen, price competition, wholesale markets

Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11548
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 03 Oct 2016
Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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cellphones, Middlemen, Pass-Through, price information, supply chains

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A Theory of Endogenous Fertility with Occupational Choice

American Economic Journal - Microeconomics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Apr 2012
Dilip Mookherjee, Silvia Prina and Debraj Ray
Boston University - Department of Economics, Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management - Department of Economics and New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics
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inequality, human capital, endogenous fertility, borrowing constraints

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The Distributive Impact of Reforms in Credit Enforcement: Evidence from Indian Debt Recovery Tribunals

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 08 Apr 2011
Sujata Visaria, Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal and Dilip Mookherjee
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), Luxembourg School of Finance and Boston University - Department of Economics
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How Did the US Housing Slump Begin? Role of the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Mar 2012
Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal and Dilip Mookherjee
Luxembourg School of Finance and Boston University - Department of Economics
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Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9930
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 01 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2023
IZA Institute of Labor Economics, University of Essex - Department of Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics and University of Chile
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property rights, gender, land reform, infant mortality, fertility, sex ratio

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The Equity Impacts of Targeted Smallholder Agricultural Credit

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2017-41
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 03 Mar 2017
Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Boston University - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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agricultural finance, agent based lending, group lending, distributive impacts

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Do Consumers Benefit from Supply Chain Intermediaries? Evidence from a Policy Experiment in the Edible Oils Market in Bangladesh

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7745
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 Jul 2016
George Washington University - Department of Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and University of Dhaka - Department of Accounting & Information Systems
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Food Security, Agricultural Trade, Trade and Agriculture

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Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004: Role of Land Reform and Demographic Changes

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 14-066
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 02 Feb 2014
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Boston University - Department of Economics and University of Chile
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inequality, land reform, household division, land markets

Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private versus Political Intermediaries

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2020-70
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 05 Feb 2020
Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Boston University - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Targeting, Intermediation, Decentralization, Community Driven Development, Agricultural Credit, Networks

Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private Versus Political Intermediaries

NBER Working Paper No. w26730
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 11 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2023
Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private versus Political Intermediaries

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14382
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Feb 2020
Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Agricultural Credit, Community Driven Development, Decentralization, intermediation, networks, targeting

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Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Jun 2017
George Washington University - Department of Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and University of Dhaka
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Intermediary, Supply Chain, Market Power, Credit Rationing, Pass-Through, Edible Oils, Bangladesh

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Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-23
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 May 2015
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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agricultural finance, agent based lending, group lending, selection, repayment

Industrial Clusters, Networks and Resilience to the Covid-19 Shock in China

NBER Working Paper No. w28000
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 27 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2023
Ruochen Dai, Dilip Mookherjee, Yingyue Quan and Xiaobo Zhang
Central University of Finance and Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, Peking University and Peking University - National School of Development
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Industrial Clusters, Networks and Resilience to the COVID-19 Shock in China

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15396
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 03 Nov 2020
Ruochen Dai, Dilip Mookherjee, Yingyue Quan and Xiaobo Zhang
Central University of Finance and Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, Peking University and Peking University - National School of Development
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China, Clusters, COVID-19, firms, Social Networks

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Growth, Automation and the Long Run Share of Labor

NBER Working Paper No. w26658
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2022
Debraj Ray and Dilip Mookherjee
New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics
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Growth, Automation and the Long Run Share of Labor

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14286
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Jan 2020
Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray
Boston University - Department of Economics and New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics
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Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India

NBER Working Paper No. w20709
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 01 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2023
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh

NBER Working Paper No. w26615
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2023
Shahe Emran, Dilip Mookherjee, Forhad Shilpi and M. Helal Uddin
Columbia University, Boston University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and University of Dhaka
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Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14272
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 14 Jan 2020
Shahe Emran, Dilip Mookherjee, Forhad Shilpi and M. Helal Uddin
Columbia University, Boston University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and University of Dhaka
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Bangladesh, Credit rationing, Edible Oils, intermediary, market power, Pass-Through, Supply Chain

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Entrepreneurship in China's Structural Transitions: Network Expansion and Overhang

NBER Working Paper No. w31477
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 24 Jul 2023
Ruochen Dai, Dilip Mookherjee, Kaivan Munshi and Xiaobo Zhang
Central University of Finance and Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, Yale University and Guanghua School of Management
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Revisiting the Eswaran-Kotwal Model of Tenancy

NBER Working Paper No. w31932
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Dec 2023
Maitreesh Ghatak and Dilip Mookherjee
London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics
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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9394
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Mar 2013
Jean-Marie Baland, Francois Libois and Dilip Mookherjee
Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP), University of Namur and Boston University - Department of Economics
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deforestation, Environmental Kuznets Curve, growth, Nepal

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How Do Voters Respond to Welfare Vis-a-Vis Public Good Programs? Theory and Evidence of Political Clientelism

NBER Working Paper No. w32158
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Feb 2024
Pranab Bardhan, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Anusha Nath
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition Based Evidence from an Indian State

NBER Working Paper No. w32157
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 20 Feb 2024
Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Community Origins of Industrial Entrepreneurship in Pre-Independence India

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14263
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Jan 2020
University of Warwick - Department of Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, Yale University and University of Warwick
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Industrialization, Social Networks

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Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment With Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11549
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Oct 2016
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Agent-based Lending, Agricultural Finance, Group Lending, Repayment, selection

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Political Decentralization

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 7, pp. 231-249, 2015
Posted: 07 Aug 2015
Dilip Mookherjee
Boston University - Department of Economics

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A Theory of Occupational Choice with Endogenous Fertility

Fifth Annual PopPov Conference on Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development, 2011
Posted: 21 May 2011
Dilip Mookherjee, Silvia Prina and Debraj Ray
Boston University - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN and New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics

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Inequality, Control Rights, and Rent Seeking: Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra

Posted: 27 Feb 2001
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Brown University - Department of Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics and New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics

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Competition and Incentives with Non-Exclusive Contracts

Posted: 17 Sep 1997
Dilip Mookherjee and Charles M. Kahn
Boston University - Department of Economics and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Budgeting and Hierarchical Control

Posted: 12 Jun 1997
Dilip Mookherjee and Stefan J. Reichelstein
Boston University - Department of Economics and Stanford University - Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Wealth Effects, Incentives and Productivity

REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Posted: 11 Dec 1996
Dilip Mookherjee
Boston University - Department of Economics

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Tax Amnesties as Asset Laundering Devices

Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Volume 12, No. 2, Fall 1996.
Posted: 21 Oct 1996
Arindam Das-Gupta and Dilip Mookherjee
Goa Institute of Management and Boston University - Department of Economics

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