Emmerich Davies
Papers
2025. Absence: Electoral Cycles and Teacher Absenteeism in India. British Journal of Political Science. pdf
2023. The Lessons Private Schools Teach: Using a Field Experiment to Understand the Effects of Private Services on Political Behavior. Comparative Political Studies. pdf
- Winner of the 2023 Comparative International Education Society South Asia Special Interest Group Best Article Award.
- Replication data: GitHub, Dataverse
2021. How Global Performance Assessments Shape Attitudes toward Government Decision-Making: Survey Experimental Evidence with Thomas Gift and Carlos X. Lastra Anadón. Governance. pdf
- Replication data: Dataverse
2017. Poor People's Participation: Neoliberal Institutions or Left Turn? with Tulia Falleti. Comparative Political Studies. pdf
- Press coverage: Financial Times
Book Chapters
2025. Complexity, Resistance, and Forbearance in Private Markets for Primary Education in India. with Abhinav Ghosh. Chapter in The Research Handbook on Education Privatization and Marketization Editors: Clara Fondevila, Huriya Jabbar, Antoni Verger and Adrian Zancajo. pdf
Under Review
Globalization, Performance Indicators, and Demands for Education: Evidence from a Survey Experiment with Thomas Gift and Carlos X. Lastra Anadón
Why Are Bureaucrats More Left-Wing? with Julia Coyoli, Leslie Finger, and Jonathan Phillips
Book Project
Under Cover of Darkness: The Politics of Education Expansion in India
Working Papers
Power to the Parents? Representation and Interest Aggregation in Delhi with Ashwini Deshpande and Parushya. pdf
The Impact of COVID-19 on School Choice and Household Education Expenditures: Evidence from India. With Ashutosh Bhuradia and, Fei Yuan.
Book Reviews
2025. Davies, Emmerich. Lessons in State Capacity from Delhi's Schools. Indian Politics & Policy. pdf
2018. Davies, Emmerich. The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice. By Derrick Darby and John L. Rury. & Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy. By Nicholas Tampio. Perspectives on Politics. pdf
Work in Progress
Teacher Socialization and Political Behavior: Evidence from Brazil with Julia Coyoli, Leslie Finger, and Jonathan Phillips
- Pre-registered at OSF
The Changing Demographics of the Teaching Labor Force: Evidence from Four Decades of Employment Surveys from Brazil and India
The Political Effects of Public-Private Partnerships: Evidence from Liberia. With Shelby Carvalho
Teaching the Nation: The Construction of Identity Through Social Science Textbooks in India. With Devika Agrawal and Blair Read.
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