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Aneesha Parvathaneni
Aneesha Parvathaneni is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at University of Michigan. Her academic interests span development economics, industrial policy, political economy and gender.
She previously worked as a Tobin pre-doctoral fellow at Yale University and as a Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia, Bangalore. She holds a Master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor's degree in economics from Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi.
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Wartime mobilisation and economic development in India
Can temporary wartime mobilisation permanently reshape an economy? This article shows that Indian districts that received more orders related to World War II saw greater transformation from agriculture to industry and services more than six decades later – with the majority of this structural transformation driven by procurement in heavy industries. These districts also experienced higher consumption levels, urbanisation rates and nighttime luminosity.
