“Stuck in Place: Investigating Social Mobility in 14 Bangalore Slums.” 2013. Journal of Development Studies, 49 (7): 1010-28.
“Slum Types and Adaptation Strategies: Identifying Policy-Relevant Differences in Bangalore.” 2014. With M.S. Sriram and Purnima Prakash (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore). Environment and Urbanization, 26 (2):568-85.
Anirudh Krishna, Sujeet Kumar, and Emily Rains. 2023. “A Range of Informality Across Cities and Slums: Understanding Precarity in Patna’s Slums Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of South Asian Development 1–21. DOI: 10.1177/09731741231155705
Harlan Downs-Tepper, Anirudh Krishna, and Emily Rains. 2021. “A Threat to Life and Livelihoods: Examining the Effects of the First Wave of Covid-19 on Health and Wellbeing in Bengaluru and Patna Slums.” Environment and Urbanization, 34 (1): 190-208.
Emily Rains and Anirudh Krishna. 2020. “Precarious Gains: Social Mobility and Volatility in Urban Slums.” World Development, 132: 1-13 (lead article).
Juan Fernando Tellez, Erik Wibbels, and Anirudh Krishna. 2020. “Local Order, Policing and Bribes: Evidence from India. World Politics, 72 (3): 377-410.
Anirudh Krishna, Emily Rains, and Erik Wibbels. 2020. “Between Zero and One: a continuum of property rights in slums of Bangalore.” Journal of Development Studies, 56 (11): 1983-1999.
Emily Rains, Anirudh Krishna and Erik Wibbels. 2019. “Combining Satellite and Survey Data to Study Indian Slums: Evidence on the Range of Conditions and Implications for Urban Policy.” Environment and Urbanization, 31 (1): 267-92.