rajesh.ramachandran

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Dr.
Rajesh
Ramachandran
ramachandran@econ.uni-frankfurt.de

Rajesh Ramachandran is a post-doctoral fellow at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. His main area of research is at the intersection of development economics and its political economy. His interests include language policy, economics of discrimination and institutional economics.

Project / Institute / Department: 

AFRASO

Additional Address Information: 

Goethe-Universität Juridicum

Street / P.O. Box: 

Postfach 21 Senckenberganlage 31

Postcode (ZIP Code): 

60325

City: 

Frankfurt

Country: 

Germany

Phone: 

+49 (0)69 798-25410

Websites: 

Personal Webpage

AFRASO I Projects: 

S3-D: Japanese Management Techniques and Firm Level Effects on Productivity: Evidence from Africa

AFRASO Publications: 

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Talks / Lectures: 

Ramachandran, Rajesh ; 2014 ; Language Policy and Human Development. The Experience of Vernacularization in Asia and Africa ; S3-D: Japanese Management Techniques and Firm Level Effects on Productivity: Evidence from Africa, S3-D: Japanische Managementpraktiken in afrikanischen Firmen ; AFRASO Lecture ; Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Publications: 

Research Papers and Work in Progress

Language Policy and Human Development (with David D. Laitin, Stanford University) Accepted at the American Political Science Review

 

Discrimination without Taste - How Discrimination can spillover and persist  (with Christopher Rauh, University of Cambridge)

Language use in education and Human Capital Formation: Evidence from a natural experiment in Ethiopia

Linguistic Diversity, Official Language Choice and Nation Building: Theory and Evidence (with David D. Laitin, Stanford University) 

Language of Instruction and Student Learning: Evidence from an Experimental Program in Cameroon (with David D. Laitin, Stanford University and Stephen L. Walter, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics)

4. How Backward are the Other Backward Classes? Changing Contours of Caste Disadvantage in India (with Ashwini Deshpande)

5. The salience of identity in electoral campaigns and the role of costly informational acquisition. (with Christopher Rauh)