Research
PUBLICATIONS
Jassal, Nirvikar. "Does Victim Gender Matter for Justice Delivery? Police & Judicial Responses to Women's Cases in India." American Political Science Review.
Best Paper Award on Social and Economic Inequality at APSA (Class and Inequality Section), 2021.
Jassal, Nirvikar and Sharon Barnhardt. "Do Women Prefer In-Group Officers? Survey and Experimental Evidence from India." Comparative Political Studies.
Jassal, Nirvikar, and Hanif Qureshi. 2023. "Riots and Rapid Action: The Special Wing of the Central Reserve Police." Amit Ahuja & Devesh Kapur (Eds.), Internal Security in India: Violence, Order, and the State. New York: Oxford University Press.
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.
Jassal, Nirvikar, and Pradeep Chhibber. 2019. “Crises of Institutional Legitimacy and Gender.” Asian Survey 59 (1): 85–97.
Chhibber, Pradeep, and Nirvikar Jassal. 2018. “The BJP, Economic Reform, and Contentious Politics.” Asian Survey 58 (1): 86–99.
WORKING PAPERS/ON-GOING PROJECTS
Do Political Gender Quotas Affect Crime Registration? Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment (with Pascaline Dupas)
Overcoming Biases Against Coworkers: Experimental Evidence from Police Academies (with Aprajit Mahajan and Manisha Shah)
Co-Ethnicity and Law Enforcement: Evidence from Caste-Segregated Police Stations in India
BOOK PROJECTS
Jassal, Nirvikar. Crime & Punishment in India: Accessing the Police or Judiciary for Justice