Aaditya Dar is a development economist. His research examines the social, political and historical factors that cause and accentuate poverty, and how individuals and communities can break away from these structural constraints. One strand of his work focuses on elite formation, state capacity, conflict and governance. A second strand engages with agrarian issues such as technology adoption, groundwater depletion and agricultural trading markets. Aaditya has a PhD from George Washington University, MA from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and BA from University of Delhi.
Dar, Aaditya.,Fishman, Ram.,Barnwal, Prabhat.,Mueller, Nathaniel.,Goltz, Jan.,McCord, Gordon. "Health Impacts of the Green Revolution: Evidence from 600,000 births across the Developing World" Dar, Aaditya.,Kumar, Chinmaya.,Verma, Pankaj. "Reducing Corruption in Bihar’s Public Distribution System" Dar, Aaditya.,Gupta, Pranav.,Verma, Rahul. "Electoral Cycles in Food Prices: Evidence from India" Dar, Aaditya.,Kumar, Ashwani. "Public or Private Leviathan? Crime and Development in Contemporary Bihar" Dar, Aaditya.,Sahay, Abhilasha. "Designing Policy in Weak States: Unintended Consequences of Alcohol Prohibition in Bihar" Dar, Aaditya.,Fishman, Ram.,Jain, Meha. "The Groundwater Constraint: Farmer Responses to Falling Water Tables in India" Dar, Aaditya.,Baez, Javier.,Skoufias, Emmanuel. "Estimating Poverty Vulnerability to and Recovery from Covariate Shocks: Evidence from Nepal" Dar, Aaditya. "“All is Water”: Technological Complementarities and Path Dependence in Indian Agriculture" Dar, Aaditya. "Parachuters vs Climbers: Parachuters vs Climbers: Economic Consequences of Barriers to Political Entry in a Democracy"