Peer-Reviewed Book
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Bhavnani, Rikhil R. 2021. “The Effects of Malapportionment on Economic Development: Evidence from India’s 2008 Redistricting.” PLoS ONE 16(12): e0259150.
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., and Alexander Lee. 2021. “Does Affirmative Action Worsen Bureaucratic Performance? Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service.” American Journal of Political Science 65(1): 5–20.
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., and Francesca Jensenius. 2019. “Voting for Development? Ruling Coalitions and Literacy in India.” Electoral Studies 62: 1–13.
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., and Alexander Lee. 2018. “Local Embeddedness and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from India.” Journal of Politics 80(1): 71–87.
Bhavnani, Rikhil R. 2018. “The Effects of Malapportionment on Cabinet Inclusion: Subnational Evidence from India.” British Journal of Political Science 48(1): 69–89.
Bhavnani, Rikhil R. 2017. “Do the Effects of Temporary Ethnic Group Quotas Persist? Evidence from India.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 9(3): 105–123.
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., and Bethany Lacina. 2017. “Fiscal Federalism at Work? Central Responses to Internal Migration in India.” World Development 93: 236–248.
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., and Bethany Lacina. 2015. “The Effects of Rainfall-Induced Migration on Sons of the Soil Violence in India.” World Politics 67(4): 760–794.
Baldwin, Kate and Rikhil R. Bhavnani. 2015. “Ancillary Studies of Experiments: Opportunities and Challenges.” Journal of Globalization and Development 6(1): 113–146.
Bazzi, Samuel and Rikhil R. Bhavnani. 2015. “Response to Roodman—A Replication of Counting Chickens When They Hatch.” Public Finance Review 43(2): 282–286.
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., and Saumitra Jha. 2014. “Gandhi’s Gift: Lessons for peaceful reform from India’s struggle for democracy.” The Economics of Peace and Security Journal 9(1): 76–88.
Clemens, Michael C., Steven Radelet, Rikhil R. Bhavnani, and Samuel Bazzi. 2012. “Counting Chickens When They Hatch: Disaggregated Aid and Growth.” The Economic Journal 122(561): 590–617.
Bhavnani, Rikhil R. 2009. “Do Electoral Quotas Work After They Are Withdrawn? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India.” American Political Science Review 103(1): 23–35.
Other Publications
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., and Saloni Bhogale. 2022. “India in 2021: At the Crossroads.” Asian Survey 62(1): 161–172.
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., and Francesca Jensenius. 2015. “Socio-economic Profiles of India’s Old Electoral Constituencies, 1971–2001.” In Fixing Electoral Boundaries in India: Laws, Processes, Outcomes and Implications for Political Representation, ed. M. S. Alam and K. C. Sivaramakrishnan. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Baldwin, Kate and Rikhil R. Bhavnani. 2011. “Secondary Analyses of Experiments: Opportunities and Challenges.” APSA-Comparative Democratization Newsletter (October).
Radelet, Steven, Michael Clemens, and Rikhil Bhavnani. 2006. “Aid and Growth: The Current Debate and Some New Evidence.” In The Macroeconomic Management of Foreign Aid: Opportunities and Pitfalls, ed. P. Isard. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund.
Radelet, Steven, Michael Clemens, and Rikhil R. Bhavnani. 2005. “Aid and Growth.” Finance and Development 42(3).
In-Progress
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., Alexander Lee and Soledad Artiz Prillaman. “Identity and Red Tape: The Political Economy of Politician-Bureaucrat Cooperation in India.”
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., and Mark Copelovitch. “The Political Impact of Monetary Shocks: Evidence from India’s 2016 Demonetization.”
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., and Saumitra Jha. Walking Together and Alone: How Peaceful Protests Fail and Can Yet Succeed in Remaking Our World. Book manuscript.
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., and Noam Lupu. “Oil Windfalls and the Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Brazil.”
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., and Saumitra Jha. “Forging a Non-Violent Mass Movement: Economic Shocks and Organizational Innovations in India’s Struggle for Democracy.”
Bhavnani, Rikhil R., Anirvan Chowdhury and Gareth Nellis. “Television, Cultural Change, and the Rise of Religious Nationalism in India.”