Publications:


1. "Contract Employment in Developing Countries,” (with Arnab K. Basu and Nancy Chau). accepted, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, K. Zimmermann (ed.). 2021.
2. Contract Employment as a Worker Discipline Device (with Arnab Basu and Nancy Chau). Journal of Development Economics, 149 (2021): 102601.
3. Political Activism as a Determinant of Clientelistic Transfers: Evidence from an Indian Public Works Program (with Yanyan Liu and Nancy Chau). European Economic Review, 132 (2021): 103631.
4. Estimating Small Area Population Density using Satellite Imagery: An Application to Sri Lanka (with Ryan Engstrom and David Newhouse). PLOS ONE, 15(8): e0237063
5. Wage Fairness in a Subcontracted Labor Market (With Nancy Chau and Arnab Basu). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 168 (2019): Pages 24-42.
6. Heterogeneous Effects of Imperfectly Enforced Minimum Wages in Low-Wage Labor Markets, Journal of Development Economics (2019) 140 (2019): 355-374.
7. Construction workers: amending the laws for more safety. Economic and political weekly. Vol -XLVIII No. 23, June 08, 2013.
8. Regional inequality compared: the cases of India and Brazil (with Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa and Gerry Rodgers) Indian Journal of Economics, Special Centennial Issue. Vol. XCVI, No. 383. 2016.

Books:


• Rodgers, Gerry and Soundararajan, Vidhya. 2016. Patterns of Inequality in the Indian Labour Market 1983-2012. Academic Foundation and Institute for Human Development.

Media writings:


1. How to Successfully Set a Minimum Wage in India, Oct 24 2018. Live Mint.
2. The MSME sector is critical in times of Covid-19, Apr 03, 2020, Hindustan Times
3. Disentangling the labour laws debate: What does the evidence really say?, May 25, 2020. Hindustan Times
4. Need focus on removing obstacles to ‘good’ jobs, Jan 20, 2021, Hindustan Times