kaivan munshi
Office: Cabinet 309
email: Kaivan_Munshi@brown.eduTitle: Professor of Economics
Research Areas
Economic Development, Population and Demography, Economic Analysis of Institutions with a particular emphasis on Community-Based Institutions in Developing Countries
Selected Publications and Papers
Networks in the Modern Economy: Mexican Migrants in the US Labor Market. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003, 118(2):549-597.
How Efficiently is Capital Allocated? Evidence from the Knitted Garment Industry in Tirupur. Forthcoming in The Review of Economic Studies (with Abhijit Banerjee).
Social Learning in a Heterogeneous Population: Technology Diffusion in the Indian Green Revolution. Forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics.
Inequality, Control Rights and Rent Seeking: Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra. Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 109(1):138-190 (with Abhijit Banerjee, Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray).
Development as a Process of Social Change: An Application to the Fertility Transition (with Jacques Myaux).
Forthcoming Papers
Working Papers
New Roles for Marriage in Urban Africa (with Nancy Luke).
Economic Institutions as Matching Markets (with Jan Eeckhout).
