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tbaskar@uni-goettingen.deThushyanthan Baskaran is Assistant Professor at the University of Göttingen. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 2010, specialising in public economics. His research interests include public economics, political economics, and development economics. Specifically, his recent research covers the political economy of fiscal policy, fiscal decentralisation, and the link between taxation and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Female Politicians and Economic Growth: Evidence from State Elections in India
This project investigates whether women legislators are good for economic growth using constituency level data for all elections to State Legislative Assemblies in India during 1992-2012.
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Thushyanthan Baskaran Sonia Bhalotra Yogesh Uppal 
31 December, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Political distortions in the Indian electricity sector
While political interference is believed to be a major problem plaguing the electricity sector in India, there is little empirical evidence on the existence of political distortions or on their econo...
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Thushyanthan Baskaran Brian Min Yogesh Uppal
- 03 August, 2015
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