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Monica Singhal

University of California, Davis
msinghal@ucdavis.edu

Monica Singhal is Associate Professor of Economics at University of California, Davis and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Her primary research field is public finance, with a particular focus on taxation and redistribution, and public finance in developing economies. She received her Bachelors and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Posts by Monica Singhal

In-kind transfers as insurance

Academics and policymakers worldwide are leading the push towards unconditional cash as the preferred mode of transfer from the government to the poor. Yet surveys across countries find that large pro...

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Price risk and poverty

There is an ongoing policy debate in India on whether grain entitlements under PDS should be converted into cash transfers. This column shows that in the face of high price variability, in-kind trans...

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Price risk and poverty

A common feature of markets in many developing economies is a lack of integration. This leads to substantial variation in prices of basic commodities across space, and risk to households from local su...

  • IGC Research on India

Commodity Taxation in India

This project examine cross‐country comparisons on commodity taxation in Bihar for 1994‐2012. The findings of the project suggested that the VAT reforms went a long way to harmonizing r...

  • IGC Research on India