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About me: I am an Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law since Fall 2020. I study how legal and political institutions shape social and economic inequality, from domestic and comparative perspectives.
Research interests (law): law and inequality, law and development, race/ethnicity and the law, law of democracy, crime/criminal justice, local government
Research interests (social science): economic history, political economy, development, labor
CV: [Link]
How Political Representation Reduces Minority Criminal Victimization: Evidence from Scheduled Castes in India (with S. K. Ritadhi), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (forthcoming) [Link]
The Economic Costs of Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government under Wilson (with Guo Xu), Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) [Link]
Financial Inclusion in Politics (with Abby Wood and Jake Grumbach), NYU Law Review (2022) [Link]
Consumption Tax Reform and the Real Economy: Evidence from India’s Adoption of a Value-Added Tax (with Nirupama Kulkarni and S. K. Ritadhi), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2021) [Link]
Voting for Welfare, California Law Review (2021)
Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2019) (with John J. Donohue and Kyle Webber) [Link]
Disenfranchisement and Economic Inequality: Downstream Effects of Shelby County v. Holder, AEA Papers & Proceedings (2019) (with Carlos Avenancio-Leon) [Link]
The Impact of Right-to-Carry Laws and the NRC Report: Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy, American Law and Economics Review (2011) (w/ John J. Donohue and Alex Zhang) [Link]
Work in Progress:
The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act (with Carlos Avenancio-Leon) [Link]
Can Political Parties Improve Minorities’ Economic Status? Evidence from India (with S. K. Ritadhi) [Link]
No Credit For Time Served? Incarceration and Credit-Driven Crime Cycles (with Carlos Avenancio-Leon) [Link]
Abhay Aneja 