Amrita Dhillon

Biographic Data

ID3605430
NAMEAmrita Dhillon
GIVEN NAMESAmrita
FAMILY NAMEDhillon
SIGNATUREDHILLON A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Warwick
ORCID0000-0003-4659-3617
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS137
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Elections and Rural Road Construction: Evidence from India

    Ahana Basistha, Amrita Dhillon et al.ARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…2025References: 7

  • The Gendered Crisis: Livelihoods and Well-Being in India During Covid-19

    Open AccessFarzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon et al.ARTICLEFeminist Economics2023Cited by: 2References: 11

    This article studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in Delhi, India. First, the study finds that men’s employment declined by 84 percentage points during the pandemic relative to pre-pandemic employment, while their monthly earnings fell by 89 percent relative to the baseline mean. In contrast, women did not experience any significant impact on emp…

  • Employee Referral, Social Proximity, and Worker Discipline: Theory and Suggestive Evidence from India

    Amrita Dhillon, Vegard Iversen et al.ARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…2021References: 24

    We propose a new theory to explain why employers mobilize workplace insiders for the hiring of new staff. In settings with incomplete contracts, we show how workplace insiders can help employers tackle recruit discipline challenges at a lower cost. A key idea is that the employer can use sanctions against the referee to keep the new hire in line. Our model predicts that employers will use existing staff of stature and with accumulated goodwill wi…

  • Using social connections and financial incentives to solve coordination failure: A quasi-field experiment in India's manufacturing sector

    Open AccessFarzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2020Cited by: 2References: 3

  • Secession with Natural Resources

    Open AccessAmrita Dhillon, Pramila Krishnan et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2020References: 2

    We look at the formation of new Indian states in 2001 to uncover the effects of political secession on the comparative economic performance of natural resource rich and natural resource poor areas. Resource rich constituencies fared comparatively worse within new states that inherited a relatively larger proportion of natural resources. We argue that these patterns reflect how political reorganisation affected the quality of state governance of n…

  • Electoral goals and center-state transfers: A theoretical model and empirical evidence from India

    Open AccessWiji Arulampalam, Sugato Dasgupta et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2008Cited by: 87References: 13

  • Development And The Interaction Of Enforcement Institutions

    Amrita Dhillon, Jamele RigoliniBOOKWorld Bank policy research…2006

    The authors examine how institutions that enforce contracts between two parties-producers and consumers-interact in a competitive market with one-sided asymmetric information and productivity shocks. They compare an informal enforcement mechanism, reputation, the efficacy of which is enhanced by consumers investing in "connectedness," with a formal mechanism, legal enforcement, the effectiveness of which can be reduced by producers by means of br…

  • Economic Theories of Voter Turnout

    Open AccessAmrita Dhillon, Samantha Peralta et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2002Cited by: 46References: 19

    The rationality of voting is the Achilles' heel of rational choice theory in political science. (Aldrich, 1997) In modern democracies thousands of citizens are eligible to vote in each election. An individual vote cast in such an election will conceivably have a negligible effect on its outcome. This leads to three interesting paradoxes: (i)The voting paradox Why would the rational individual bother to spend time and ;resources to become well inf…