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He is a lecturer (assistant professor) in real estate and urban economics at the University of Manchester. He was an Assistant Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and a visiting fellow at Brookings Institution (India Center). He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles.
His recent papers are on political economy of real estate, vacant housing and housing supply. His research is published in the Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Cities, among others.
He recently co-organized the MIT Asia Real Estate Inaugural Symposium.
Latest Published
Tandel, S. Gandhi, & A. Tabarrok (2023). Building networks: Investigating the quid pro quo between local politicians & developers. Journal of Development Economics, 164, 103138.
Tandel, A. Dutta, S. Gandhi, & A. Narayanan (2023). Women’s right to property and the child quantity-quality trade-off: Evidence from India, Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming.
Gandhi, R. Green, & S. Patranabis (2022). Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India's housing vacancy paradox, Journal of Urban Economics, 131, 103490.
Tandel, S. Gandhi, S. Patranabis, L. Bettencourt, and A. Malani (2022). Infrastructure, enforcement and Covid-19 in Mumbai, Journal of Regional Science, 62(3), 645-669. (Lead article).
Gandhi, V. Tandel, A. Tabarrok, and S. Ravi (2021). Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and real estate market in Mumbai, Journal of Urban Economics, 123, 103330. (Lead article).
Working papers
Gandhi, S., M. E. Kahn, R. Kochhar, S.Lall, and V. Tandel (2022). Adapting to flood risk: Evidence from a panel of global cities. National Bureau of Economic Research No. w30137.
Dutta, A., Gandhi, S., and Green R. (2024). (In)formal living: India’s dual urban housing supply elasticities. Submitted.
Nagpal and S. Gandhi (2023). Scaling Heights: Affordability Implications of Zoning Deregulation in India.
Dutta, S. Gandhi, & R. K. Green (2023). Do urban regulations exacerbate rural-urban inequality? Evidence from rent control in India. (Revision requested, Journal of Economic Geography (2nd Round)).
Tandel, S. Gandhi, A. Nanda, and N. Agnihotri (2023). Do Mandatory Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets. (Revision requested, Journal of Public Economics)
Outreach and Knowledge dissemination:
He has bylines in international and Indian media -- The Washington Post, The Hindu, The Hindustan Times, Livemint among others, and his research has been cited or quoted in The Financial Times, The Straits Times, BBC, Livemint and others. See selected Media/Blog contributions below:
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: How Real Estate Sector Reforms Have Impacted Housing Prices, Podcast with Vaidehi Tandel and Anirudh burman, June 29, 2023.
VoxDev Blog: Constructing influence: Political turnover reveals quid pro quo arrangements in Mumbai’s real estate, with Vaidehi Tandel and Alex Tabarrok, 30 November 2023.
Economic Times: Time to make RERA roar, with Nandini Agnihotri, 14th June 2023.
Indian Express: How COVID-19 is amplifying gender inequality in India, with Kadambari Shah and Gregory Randolph, 17 May, 2020.
Washington Post: Covid-19 is a wake-up call for India's cities, with Gregory Randolph, The 20 April, 2020.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Working paper
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Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Working paper
Nanda, A. (Researcher), Thanos, S. (Researcher), Gandhi, S. (Researcher), Nase, I. (Researcher), Tandel, V. (Researcher), Valtonen, E. (Researcher) & Xu, Y. (Researcher)
1/09/22 → …
Project: Research
Thanos, S. (PI), Kingston, R. (CoI), Wong, C. (CoI), Nanda, A. (CoI), Zheng, H. (CoI), Pinto, N. (CoI), Schulze Baing, A. (CoI), Thornhill, I. (CoI), Acheampong, R. A. (CoI), Gandhi, S. (CoI) & Vlastaras, V. (CoI)
17/05/22 → 31/12/22
Project: Other
Gandhi, S. (Recipient), 2024
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
20/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert comment
16/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
17/05/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert comment
20/12/16 → 14/07/19
1 item of Media coverage, 2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Research