Research
BOOK PROJECTS
Jassal, Nirvikar. Crime & Punishment in India: Police, Judiciary, and Access to Justice
PUBLICATIONS
Jassal, Nirvikar. 2024. "Does Victim Gender Matter for Justice Delivery? Police & Judicial Responses to Women's Cases in India." American Political Science Review 118 (3): 1278–1304.
Best Paper Award on Social and Economic Inequality at APSA (Class and Inequality Section), 2021.
Jassal, Nirvikar, and Sharon Barnhardt. 2024. "Do Women Prefer In-Group Officers? Survey and Experimental Evidence from India." Comparative Political Studies 57 (10): 1591–1633.
Blair, Graeme, and Nirvikar Jassal. 2022. "Accessing Justice for Survivors of Violence Against Women.” Science 377 (6602): 150–51. [Perspectives]
Jassal, Nirvikar. 2020. “Gender, Law Enforcement, and Access to Justice: Evidence from All-Women Police Stations in India.” American Political Science Review 114 (4): 1035–54.
Sage Best Paper Award for the best paper in Comparative Politics presented at APSA, 2019.
Jassal, Nirvikar. 2021. “Segregation as Efficiency? Group-Specific Institutions in North India.” The Journal of Asian Studies 80 (3): 631–61.
WORKING PAPERS/ON-GOING PROJECTS
Do Political Gender Quotas Affect Crime Registration? Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment (with Pascaline Dupas)
Co-Ethnicity and Law Enforcement: Evidence from Caste-Segregated Police Stations in India
Overcoming Biases Against Coworkers: A Field Experiment in North India (with Aprajit Mahajan and Manisha Shah)