Papers

Working Papers


"Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor" (with Natalie Bau, Martin Rotemberg, and Manisha Shah) [submitted].

"Family Planning, Now and Later: Infertility Fear and Contraception Take-Up" (with Natalie Bau, David Henning and Corinne Low) 



Published and Forthcoming Papers


"Water, Health and Wealth", Economica, March 2021. (with Nava Ashraf, Ed Glaeser and Abe Holland)

"Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India"Journal of Human Resources, Spring 2021. (with Manisha Shah)

NBER Digest

"The Right to Education Act: Trends in Enrollment, Test Scores, and School Quality", AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2019. (with Manisha Shah)

Ideas for India, VoxEU

"Transforming Cities: Does Urbanization Promote Democratic Change?" Regional Studies, 2017. (with Ed Glaeser)

"Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long-Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital Investment", Journal of Political Economy, April 2017. (with Manisha Shah)

Ideas for India

"Do IT Service Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence from India", Journal of Development Economics, September 2013. (with Emily Oster)