"Local funds and political competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India" (with Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay). European Journal of Political Economy 41 (2016): 14-30.
Media Mentions: Business Line , The Economic Times, The Telegraph
"Mind The Gap: Schooling, Informality and Fiscal Externality in Nepal" (with Hoyt Bleakley). The World Bank Economic Review 37.4 (2023): 659-674.
Presented at : NEUDC (2021); 7th International Conference on "The Shadow Economy, Tax Behaviour and Institutions (2021); 114th Annual Conference on Taxation, NTA (2021).
"Dynamics of Evasion around Tax Thresholds: Evidence from Indian firms" (with Keshav Choudhary). Accepted at Journal of Public Economics
Presented at : 8th Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing Countries (2023); IIT Kanpur (2024); Annual Congress of the IIPF (2024)
"Limits to VAT Self-Enforcement: The Role of Compliance in Production Networks" (with Tejaswi Velayudhan, Prince Dhawan and Ankur Garg)
"From Dusk Till Dawn: The Impact of Lifting Night Shift Bans on Female Employment" (with Kanika Mahajan, Anisha Sharma and Daksh Walia)
"Watchdogs or Accomplices? The Role of Third-Party Auditors in Corporate Tax Compliance" (with Keshav Choudhary)
Previous version was titled "Notching Really Matters: Effect of Third-Party Audit on Tax Compliance of Firms in India"
Presented at : Midwest International Economic Development Conference (2019); The Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics, RIDGE (2019); Public Finance Lunch Seminar, University of Michigan (2019); 112th Annual Conference on Taxation, NTA (2019); 15th ACEGD – Indian Statistical Institute-Delhi (2019); NEUDC (2020); Winter School - Delhi School of Economics (2020).
Presented at: Warwick Economics PhD Conference – University of Warwick (2018), Health and Society in South Asia Conference – University of Pennsylvania (2017); 12th ACEGD – Indian Statistical Institute-Delhi (2016)
"Enhancing Revenue Collection Capacity through Automation: Evidence from a VAT" (with Tejaswi Velayudhan and Vedant Vohra)
"The Impact of Change in Primary Completion Rate on Learning Outcomes in India" (with Nishith Prakash) UNESCO Global Monitoring Report, 2015.
"Why Don't Firms File Tax Returns on Time? Evidence from the Indian GST" (with Tejaswi Velayudhan, Prince Dhawan and Ankur Garg)