"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). Revise and Resubmit 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)
"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)
"Limits to VAT Self-Enforcement: The Role of Compliance in Production Networks" (with Tejaswi Velayudhan, Prince Dhawan and Ankur Garg)
"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.