Ashok Rai

Associate Professor of Economics

Office: Schapiro Hall Rm. 318
E-mail: arai@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2270
Fax: (413) 597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
24 Hopkins Hall Drive
Williamstown, MA 01267

Education

University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1997
Stanford University, B.A., 1992
Curriculum Vitae

Fields of Specialization

Development
Public Economics
Contract Theory
Finance

Publications

Do Spouses Make Claims?  Health-seeking and Microfinance in South India (with S. Ravi), forthcoming, World Development

Borrower Runs (with P. Bond), Journal of Development Economics  88: 185-191 March 2009.

Cosigned or Group Loans (with P. Bond), Journal of Development  Economics, 85: 58-80. February 2008.

Is Grameen Lending Efficient? Repayment Incentives and Insurance in Village Economies (with T. Sjöström), Review of Economic Studies, 71: 217-234, January 2004

Does Microcredit Reach the Poor and Vulnerable? Evidence from Northern Bangladesh. (with S. Amin and G. Topa), Journal of Development Economics, 70:59-82, February 2003

Targeting the Poor Using Community Information, Journal of Development Economics, 69: 71-84, October 2002

Working Papers

Adverse Selection in Credit Markets: Evidence from a Policy Experiment. (with  S. Klonner), under review.

Cosigners as Collateral (with  S. Klonner), revise and resubmit, Journal of Development Economics.

“Microcredit and Market Design” (with T. Sjöström), invited chapter for Z. Neeman, M. Niederle, and N. Vulkan eds. Oxford Handbook of Market Design, Oxford University Press.

Financial Fragmentation in South India (with S. Klonner)

Selected Work Experience

Visiting Scholar, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, 2006-07
Research Fellow, Center for International Development at Harvard, 1999-2002

Institute Associate, Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997-1999

Visiting Lecturer/Research Scholar, Yale University, 2002-03

Short term consultant for USAID and Asian Development Bank