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Dar, Aaditya
Assistant Professor, Economics and Public Policy
Email Aaditya_Dar@isb.edu
Website https://aadityadar.com/
Overview
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.
Experience
Academic
- 2019 - Present: Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business
- 2016 - 2016: Intermediate Microeconomics, George Washington University
Research & Publications
Published Papers
Bhattarai, Nishan.,Pollack, Adrienne.,Lobell, David.,Fishman, Ram.,Singh, Balwinder.,Dar, Aaditya.,Jain, Meha. (forthcoming) "The Impact of Groundwater Depletion on Agricultural Production in India", Environmental Research Letters Dar, Aaditya.,Fishman, Ram.,Barnwal, Prabhat.,Mueller, Nathaniel.,Goltz, Jan.,McCord, Gordon. (2020) "Health Impacts of the Green Revolution: Evidence from 600,000 births across the Developing World", Journal of Health Economics , 74
Working Papers
Dar, Aaditya. "“All is Water”: Technological Complementarities and Path Dependence in Indian Agriculture" Dar, Aaditya.,Gupta, Pranav.,Verma, Rahul. "Electoral Cycles in Food Prices: Evidence from India" Dar, Aaditya. "Parachuters vs Climbers: Economic Consequences of Barriers to Political Entry in a Democracy" 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.,Blakeslee, David.,Fishman, Ram.,Malik, Samree.,Pelegrina, Heitor.,Singh, Karan. "Irrigation and the Spatial Pattern of Structural Transformation in India" Dar, Aaditya.,Fishman, Ram.,Jain, Meha. "The Groundwater Constraint: Farmer Responses to Falling Water Tables in India"