peer-reviewed articles
Tagat, A., Thakur, A., Rezaei, S., Gurjar, S., George, D., Budhwar, Y., Puthillam, A., & Kapoor, H. (2025). Can Incentives for Sharing True Information Affect Discernment? Results from an Online Experiment in India. In M. L. Khan (Ed.), Oxford Intersections: Social Media in Society and Culture (p. 0). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945253.003.0057
Khandelwal, A., Vajjala, A., & Tagat, A. (2025). Financial literacy and inclusion in India: Evidence from household-level data after demonetization. Journal of Emerging Market Finance, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09726527251320228
Tagat, A., Balaji, A. & Kapoor, H. (2025). The impact of life skills education on socio-emotional development and school-related outcomes among adolescents in India. BMC Public Health 25 (1), 759. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-21195-0
Tagat, A., & Samaddar, B. (2025). Language capital and grade repetition: evidence from nationally-representative survey data in India. Education Economics, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2024.2448661
Maitra, P., & Tagat, A. (2024) Labor supply responses to rainfall shocks. Review of Development Economics. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13079
Tagat, A., Kapoor, H., (2023). Private lives: experimental evidence on information completeness in spousal preferences. Journal of Economic Science Association. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40881-023-00148-0
Arora, V., Chakravarty, S., Kapoor, H., Mukherjee, S., Roy, S., & Tagat, A. (2023). No going back: COVID-19 disease threat perception and male migrants' willingness to return to work in India. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 209, 533–546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.03.017
Tagat, A., & Kapoor, H. (2023). We're very grateful: Moral emotions, role models, and trust predict vaccine uptake intent in India. Behavioural Public Policy, 1-22. doi:10.1017/bpp.2023.12. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioural-public-policy/article/were-very-grateful-moral-emotions-role-models-and-trust-predict-vaccine-uptake-intent-in-india/587CB05FCFBCF070739BA55D31BA9700#supplementary-materials-tab
Balaji, A., & Tagat, A. (2023). Unhealthy Shock: Changes in Household Expenditures in the First Wave of COVID-19 in India. Journal of Health Management. https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231153207
Tagat, A., Kapoor, H., Arora, V., Chakravarty, S., Mukherjee, S. & Roy, S. (2022) Double jab: Survey evidence on vaccine hesitancy, beliefs, and attitudes in India, Health Communication, doi: 10.1080/10410236.2022.2028480
Tagat, A., & Khandelwal, A., & Kapoor, H. (2021). Networked nudging: Designing a voter registration nudge in urban India. Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy https://sabeconomics.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/JBEP-5-1-6.pdf
Tagat, A., & Khandelwal, A. (2021). #DevResearch: Exploring Development Researchers Twitter Use for Research Dissemination. Scholarly and Research Communication. https://doi.org/10.22230/src.2021v12n1a395
Tagat, A., Gupta, N., George, N., & Kapoor, H. (2021). Breaking the Law: Rule Violations as social norms on India’s road. Indian Public Policy Review. https://ippr.in/index.php/ippr/article/view/55/32
Mookerjee, D., Chakravarty, S., Roy, S., Tagat, A., & Mukherjee, S. (2021). A Culture-Centered Approach to Experiences of the Coronavirus Pandemic Lockdown Among Internal Migrants in India. American Behavioral Scientist. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211000392
Tagat, A. (2020). Female matters: Impact of a workfare program on intra-household female decision-making in rural India. World Development Perspectives, 20, 100246. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2020.100246
Kapoor, H., & Tagat, A. (2020). Go Corona Go! Cultural beliefs and social norms in India during COVID-19. Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, Vol. 4, COVID-19 Special Issue, 9-15. Retrieved from: https://sabeconomics.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/JBEP-4-S-2.pdf
Jha, R., Nagarajan, H., & Tagat, A., (2019). Jati, Local Public Goods and Village Governance : Private Actions and Public Outcomes. Economic and Political Weekly. 54(49). Retrieved from
Tagat, A., Kapoor, H., & Tagat, A. (2019). "Giving In: Crowdfunding for musical concerts in India", International Journal of Music Business Research, 8(2). Retrieved from https://musicbusinessresearch.wordpress.com/2019/10/30/international-journal-of-music-business-research-october-2019-vol-8-no-2/
Borooah, V., Tagat, A. & Mishra, V. (2019). "Conflict, caste and resolution: a quantitative analysis for Indian villages", Indian Growth and Development Review, 12(2). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1108/IGDR-08-2019-0087
Tagat, A. (2019). The taxman cometh: Behavioural approaches to improving tax compliance in India, Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy 3(1), 12-22. Retrieved from https://sabeconomics.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/JBEP-3-1-4-Tagat.pdf
Jha, R., Nagarajan, HK, & Tagat, A. (2019). Restricted and Unrestricted Fiscal Grants and Tax Effort of Panchayats in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 54(32), 68-75. Retrieved from https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/32/special-articles/restricted-and-unrestricted-fiscal-grants-and-tax.html
Tagat, A. & Kapoor, H. (2018). "Sacred Nudging" and Sanitation Decisions in India. India Review 17(3), 301-319. doi:10.1080/14736489.2018.1473320
Tagat, A. & Kapoor, H. (2017). The trust broker game: a three-player trust game with probabilistic returns and information asymmetry. Economics Discussion Papers, No 2017-33, Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Available at http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/discussionpapers/2017-33/file
Kulkarni, S., Tagat, A., & Kapoor, H. (2016). An experimental investigation of intra-household resource allocation in rural India. Partnership for Economic Policy working paper series no. 2016-20. Nairobi, Kenya: PEP. Available at: https://www.pep-net.org/working-papers
Borooah, V. K., & Tagat, A. (2016). Political participation in rural India: A village-level study. In N. Schofield & G. Caballero (Eds.), State, institutions, and democracy: Contributions of political economy. Geneva, Switzerland: Springer International. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-44582-3_7
Borooah, V. K., & Tagat, A. (2015). Political participation in rural India: a village-level study. Paper presented at IV International Conference on Political Economy and Institutions (ICOPEAI 2015), Baiona, Spain. Vigo: ERENEA.
PAPER AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Jagga, D., Saksham, S., Tagat, A. and Zhang, Y. (16 December, 2025). EnergyBot: Behavioural interventions to reduce peak-time energy demand in India. BREW-ESA 2025, MDI Gurgaon, India.
Tagat, A. (Nov 25, 2025). Doing Research: Practical Considerations for Field-based Research. Mahatma Education Society's Night Degree College, Chembur, Mumbai. Online.
Tagat, A. (2025, July 17). The impact of life skills education on socio-emotional development and school-related outcomes among adolescents in India [Paper presentation]. 2025 Southeast Asian Stata Conference, Bangkok, Thailand (Virtual).
Tagat, A. (2024, December 19) Beyond school: Socio-emotional skills and school-related outcomes in India. Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) Asia Conference 2024, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Tagat, A. (2024, December 16) Cash persists: Evidence on payment preferences from novel data in urban India. Behavioural Research in Economics - Economic Science Association (BREW-ESA) Conference, Ashoka University, Sonepat, India.
Tagat, A. (2024, December 7) EnergyBot: Evidence on reducing energy consumption in urban India. The 5th India Public Policy Network (IPPN) Conference, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
Tagat, A., Balaji, A., and H. Kapoor (2023, December). Beyond School: Life skills training, socio-emotional development, and school outcomes in India. [Paper/Podium Presentation] Paper presented at BREW-ESA 2023, IIT Bombay.
Arora, V., Chakravarty, S., Kapoor, H., Mukherjee, S., Roy, S., & Tagat, A. (2022, January). No going back: COVID-19 disease threat perceptions and migrants’ willingness to return to work in India. Poster presented at the 2022 AEA Convention of the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA), Virtual.