Anand Murugesan

Anand Murugesan
Assistant Professor of Economics

Department of Public Policy
Central European University, Vienna
C-403, Quellenstraße 51, 1100 Wien
Phone: +43.1.25230.2054 Twitter: @tapasiva

email: murugesana@ceu.edu

Affiliate Faculty: Social Mind Center

Here is a link to my CV

I am on research leave in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023

Research

Fields of Interest

Development

Public Economics

Environment

Experimental Economics

Publications

“Air Pollution Trade-Offs in Developing Countries: An Empirical Model of Health Effects in Goa, India,” with Sanghamitra Das, Vikram Dayal and Uma Rajarathnam, Environment and Development Economics, 2021 (Replication files)

“Electoral clientelism and vote buying,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 2020

“Use of Weather Information for Agricultural Decision Making,” with George Frisvold, Weather, Climate and Society, 5, January Issue, 55-69, 2013.

Book

Demystifying causal inference: Public Policy Applications with R, with Vikram Dayal, Springer [forthcoming Fall 2022]

Working papers

“Leader and citizens participation for the environment: Experimental evidence from Eastern Europe,” with Tiziana Centofanti, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2nd revise & resubmit

“Drain on your health: Sanitation externalities from dirty drains in Uttarakhand, India,” with Vikram Dayal and Tauhidur Rahman, Review of Development Economics, revise and resubmit

“Markets For Children: International Adoptions, IVF, and U.S. Foster Care,” with Robert Innes, under revision [link to previous version]

“Demystifying causal inference: ingredients of a recipe,” with Vikram Dayal, IEG working paper

“Incentives for consumption and the return of single-use-bottles: Empirical study of the deposit return system in Germany,” with Teresa Geidel

Current projects

Democracy for Sale with Jean-Robert Tyran

“Cash-for-votes,” for Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice

Holy Cow! Religious violence, informal markets and the Indian economy, with Jitendra Singh

Poster presented at the ASSA 2022 annual meeting

“Public goods, trust and tax compliance in the shadow of the Habsburg empire,” with Michael Dorsch

“Let them play games! Using coordination games to elicit cultural beliefs,” with Mahendran Chokkalingam, Christophe Heintz and Mia Karabegovic

“Impact of the American opioid crisis on children,” with Dana Andersen

Other publications and contributions

Understanding our Political Nature: How to put knowledge and reason at the heart of political decision-making, lead author of the economics team report with Martina Barjaková and Michael Vlassopoulos, 2019

“An Empirical Study of Sanitation and Health in Rural Uttarakhand, India,” with Vikram Dayal and Saurabh Chugh, International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, Vol. 10, 91-99, 2008

Recent and upcoming presentations

ASSA 2022 Virtual Annual Meeting (January 7- 9, 2022)

European Public Choice Society, 2022 (April 11 - 14, 2022)

Western Economic Association Conference (June 29th - July 3rd, 2022)

Links to recent collaborators

Jean-Robert Tyran

Michael Dorsch

Vikram Dayal

Teaching

Central European University, Vienna

Fall 2021

Economic Analysis for Public Policy I

Winter 2022

Impact Evaluation: Policy Applications with R (Syllabus)

Advanced Impact Evaluation (Syllabus)

Institutional and Behavioral Economics (Syllabus)

Fall 2022 (on research leave)

Bio

PhD, University of Maryland, College Park
MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
B.Com., Bangalore University (St. Joseph’s College)

Born 1980, Bangalore, Indian citizenship