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Tagat, A. Thakur A., Rezaei, S., Gurjar, S. George, D., Budhwar, Y., Puthillam, A. and Kapoor, H. (2025). Can Incentives for Sharing True Information Affect Discernment? Results from an Online Experiment in India, in M Laeeq Khan (ed.), Oxford Intersections: Social Media in Society and Culture (Oxford, online edn, Oxford Academic, 26 Jun. 2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945253.003.0057, accessed 9 July 2025.
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. [Previous version here]
Tagat, A., Balaji A., & Kapoor, H. (2025). Beyond School: Life skills training, socio-emotional development, and school outcomes in India. Forthcoming in BMC Public Health.
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 [Working paper version here]
Marcoci, A., Wilkinson, D.P., Vercammen, A. Tagat, A. et al. (2024) Predicting the replicability of social and behavioural science claims in COVID-19 preprints. Nature Human Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01961-1
Tagat, A., Phokeer, A., & Kreitem, H. (2024). Net Loss: An econometric method to measure the impact of Internet shutdowns. ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies. https://doi.org/10.1145/3659466
Maitra, P., & Tagat, A. (2024). Labor supply responses to rainfall shocks. Review of Development Economics, 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13079
Tagat, A., Kapoor, H., & Kulkarni, S. (2023). Private lives: experimental evidence on information completeness in spousal preferences. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40881-023-00148-0
Kapoor, H., Rezaei, S., Gurjar, S., Tagat, A., George, D., Budhwar, Y., & Puthillam, A. (2023). Does incentivization promote sharing “true” content online? Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-120
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
Balaji A, Tagat A (2023). Unhealthy Shock: Changes in Household Expenditures in the First Wave of COVID-19 in India. Journal of Health Management, 25(1), 77-86. doi:10.1177/09720634231153207
Inamdar, V., Tagat, A. & Parekh, A. (2023). The Effect of Women’s Empowerment on Intimate Partner Violence and Child Nutrition Outcomes in India, Nepal, and Pakistan, Journal of South Asian Development, 18(1), 44–69. https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741221142356. [Working Paper version].
Tagat, A., & Kapoor, H. (2023). We're very grateful: Moral emotions, role models, and trust predict vaccine uptake intent in India. Behavioural Public Policy 7(3), 679-700. doi:10.1017/bpp.2023.12
Kapoor, H., Tagat, A., Ticku, A., & Karandikar, S. (2022). How to Catch ‘Em All? An Investigation of Personality and Gameplay Styles in Pokémon GO, PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality 2022; 29 23–36. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/pres_a_00355
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, 5(S2), 53-60. [Paper]
Khandelwal, A. & Tagat, A. (2021). #DevResearch: Exploring Development Researchers Twitter Use for Research Dissemination. Scholarly and Research Communication, 12(1). doi:10.22230 / src.2021v12n1a395
Tagat, A., George, N., Gupta, N., & Kapoor, H. (2021). Breaking the Law. Indian Public Policy Review, 2(4), 76-97. https://ippr.in/index.php/ippr/article/view/55
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, doi:10.1177/00027642211000392
Kapoor, H., & Tagat, A. (2021). Worry much? Preventive health behaviours related to worry across countries amid COVID-19. Journal of Health Psychology. doi:10.1177/1359105321999090
Parekh, A., Tagat, A., Kapoor, H., & Nadkarni, A. (2021). The Effects of Husbands’ Alcohol Consumption and Women’s Empowerment on Intimate Partner Violence in India. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi:10.1177/0886260521991304 [Code]
Kapoor, H., Ticku, A., Tagat, A., & Karandikar, S. (2021). Innovation in isolation? COVID-19 lockdown stringency and culture-innovation relationships. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 83. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.593359
Tagat, A. (2020). Female matters: Impact of a workfare program on intra-household female decision-making in rural India. World Development Perspectives, 20, 100246. [Paper] [Code]
Tagat, A., & Kapoor, H. (2020). Go Corona Go! Cultural beliefs and social norms in India during COVID-19. Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 4(S), 9-15. [Paper]
Tagat, A., & Trivedi, P. L. (2020). Demand for cash: an econometric model of currency demand in India. Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, 13(2), 205-222. doi:10.1080/17520843.2020.1722193. [Data Appendix]
Jha, R., Nagarajan, H. K., & Tagat, A. (2019). Jati, local public goods and village governance. Economic & Political Weekly, 54(49), 43-50. [Paper]
Tagat, A. Kapoor, H., and Tagat, A. (2019). Giving In: Crowdfunding for musical concerts in India. International Journal of Music Business Research, 8 (2), 27-52. [Paper]
Borooah, V. K., Tagat, A., & Mishra, V. (2019). Conflict, caste and resolution: a quantitative analysis for Indian villages. Indian Growth and Development Review, 12 (2). doi:10.1108/IGDR-08-2019-0087. [Paper]
Jha, R., Nagarajan, H. K., & Tagat, A. (2019). Restricted and Unrestricted Fiscal Grants and Tax Effort of Panchayats in India. Economic & Political Weekly, 54(32), 69. [Paper]
Tagat, A. (2019). The taxman cometh: Behavioural approaches to improving tax compliance in India. Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 3(1), 12-22. [Paper]
Tagat, A. and Kapoor, H. (2018). Sacred Nudging and Sanitation Decisions in India. India Review 17 (3), 301-319. doi:10.1080/14736489.2018.1473320
Borooah, V. K., & Tagat, A. (2015). Measuring the Size of the ‘Democratic Deficit’ in Rural India: A Village Level Study. Journal of Social Inclusion Studies, 2(1), 3–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/2394481120150101.
Kapoor, H., & Tagat, A. (2024). Transforming behavioral science, creatively. In Transformational Creativity: Learning for a Better Future (pp. 183-196). Cham: Springer International Publishing. [Paper]
Kapoor, H. and Tagat, A. (2020). Everything counts: Big data and creativity science, In F. Reisman (Ed.), 70 Years of Research into Creativity (pp.125-143). London: KIE Conference Publications. [Paper]
Kapoor, H. and Tagat, A. (2017). How happy is a creative country? A country-level analysis of creativity and subjective well-being. In F. Reisman (Ed.), Creativity, innovation, and well-being (pp.165-188). London: KIE Conference Publications. [Paper]
Borooah, V and Tagat, A. (2016). Political Participation in Rural India: A Village Level Study, In: Schofield N., Caballero G. (eds) State, Institutions and Democracy. Studies in Political Economy (pp 159-191). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-44582-3_7 [Paper]
Kapoor, H., Tagat, A., and Cropley, D. (2016). Fifty Shades of Creativity : Case Studies of Malevolent Creativity in Art, Science, and Technology. In F. Reisman (Ed.), Creativity in the Arts, Science, and Technology (pp. 25-44). London: KIE Conference Publications. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4702.4244. [Paper]
Tagat, A. and Sallick, S. (2024, December 12). The Price of Disruption: Evaluating the Economic Impact of Senegal's 2023 Internet Shutdowns. https://internews.org/resource/the-price-of-disruption-evaluating-the-economic-impact-of-senegals-2023-internet-shutdowns/
Tagat, A. (2020). Book review: Matthew McCartney, The Indian Economy. South Asia Research, 40(3), 440–443. https://doi.org/10.1177/0262728020944788
Tagat, A. and Kapoor H. (2020). "Context Matters for Nudgers, Too: A Lesson from One of the Most Diverse Countries on Earth. Behavioral Scientist.
Tagat, A. (2018). Book Review: Jun-ichi Okabe and Aparajita Bakshi, A New Statistical Domain in India: An Enquiry into Village Panchayat Databases. South Asia Research, 38(3_suppl), 105S-109S. https://doi.org/10.1177/0262728018793240