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Personal profile
Biography
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 Inaugaral Symposium.
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.
Latest Published
Vaidehi Tandel, Arnab Dutta, Sahil Gandhi, & Ashwini Narayanan (2023). Women’s right to property and the child quantity-quality trade-off: Evidence from India, Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming.
Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi, & Alex Tabarrok (2023). Building networks: Investigating the quid pro quo between local politicians & developers. Journal of Development Economics, 164, 103138.
Sahil Gandhi, Richard Green, & Shaonlee Patranabis (2022). Insecure property rights and the housing market: Explaining India's housing vacancy paradox, Journal of Urban Economics, 131, 103490.
Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi, Shaonlee Patranabis, Luis Bettencourt, and Anup Malani (2022). Infrastructure, enforcement and Covid-19 in Mumbai, Journal of Regional Science, 62(3), 645-669. (Lead article).
Sahil Gandhi, Vaidehi Tandel, Alex Tabarrok, and Shamika Ravi (2021). Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and real estate market in Mumbai, Journal of Urban Economics, 123, 103330. (Lead article).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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):
Areas of expertise
- HB Economic Theory
- Urban Economics
- Real Estate Markets
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Manchester Urban Institute
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Infrastructure, enforcement, and COVID-19 in Mumbai slums: A first look
Tandel, V., Gandhi, S., Patranabis, S., Bettencourt, L. & Malani, A., 29 Jul 2021, In: Journal of Regional Science. 62, 3, p. 645-669 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and the real estate market in Mumbai, India
Gandhi, S., Tandel, V., Tabarrok, A. & Ravi, S., May 2021, In: Journal of Urban Economics. 123, p. 1-14 14 p., 103330.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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India’s Housing Vacancy Paradox: How Rent Control and Weak Contract Enforcement Produce Unoccupied Units and a Housing Shortage at the Same Time
Gandhi, S., Green, R. & Patranabis, S., 2021, (Submitted).Research output: Working paper
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Distant Shocks, Migration, and Housing Supply in India
Gandhi, S., 2021, (In preparation).Research output: Working paper
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Mobility and Tenure Choice in Urban India
Gandhi, S., 2020, (In preparation).Research output: Working paper
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The Manchester Real Estate and Urban Economics (MREUE) group
Nanda, A., Thanos, S., Gandhi, S., Nase, I., Tandel, V., Valtonen, E. & Xu, Y.
1/09/22 → …
Project: Research
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Research computing server for PEM
Thanos, S., Kingston, R., Wong, C., Nanda, A., Zheng, H., Pinto, N., Schulze Baing, A., Thornhill, I., Acheampong, R. A., Gandhi, S. & Vlastaras, V.
17/05/22 → 31/12/22
Project: Other
Press/Media
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Covid-19 is a wake-up call for India’s cities in the Washington Post
20/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert comment
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Are slums more vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brookings Institution
16/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
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How COVID-19 is amplifying gender inequality in India in The Indian Express
17/05/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert comment
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Real Estate in India
20/12/16 → 14/07/19
1 item of Media coverage, 2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Research