VIVEK DEHEJIA

Welcome to my webpage. I'm associate professor of economics and philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Here, you'll find links to my academic and public writings, videos, and other items that I hope you'll find interesting. You can reach me at vdehejia[at]gmail[dot]com, on Twitter @vdehejia, or on Instagram @vd9122 .

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

In today's Times of India, Jagdish Bhagwati, Pravin Krishna, and I take stock of demonetization and remonetization, and how the critics got it plain wrong.

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/looking-back-at-demonetisation-the-concerns-of-its-legion-of-critics-have-all-been-proven-plain-wrong/
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Sunday, March 26, 2017

"Why care about inequality?" My latest Mint column reflects on this age old question.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/yXW7qZuokuDzr7LeYvQySO/Why-care-about-inequality.html
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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Praveen Chakravarty and I have a new IDFC Institute Briefing Paper using a novel luminosity based data set to study income convergence/divergence at the level of India's districts.

http://www.idfcinstitute.org/site/assets/files/11020/district_luminosity_bp_number_5_23mar17-2.pdf
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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

In our latest Mint Essay, Praveen Chakravarty and I deploy a novel luminosity-based data set to document widening income gaps *within* states, not just across them. A Briefing Paper on this, going into greater detail, is forthcoming shortly.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/Uqj3rmz3SxVNw7EONHyvzH/Income-divergence-governance-or-development-model.html
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Monday, March 13, 2017

My latest Mint column looks at the economic roots of the US Civil War and draws lessons for other federal polities with widening economic divergence.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/RwPxaEVv6Kg64Qpt1xtHNM/A-more-perfect-union.html
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Thursday, March 9, 2017

Today's unsigned editorial in Mint, on the UP election, draws on research by Praveen Chakravarty and myself, on widening income gaps among states.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/D4jBGAsqRex3k786LwYxkN/Why-Uttar-Pradesh-and-11-March-matter.html
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