Publications
Rainfall Shocks and Learning Outcomes: Dynamic Persistence and the Role of Local Labour Demand (with Anahita Karandikar) [Accepted, Economica, 2026]
Gendered vulnerabilities in climate shocks: the role of social protection interventions, Environmental Research: Climate, 2024 [Link to Publication]
Effect of Kanyashree Programme on Child Marriage and Fertility Outcomes, Economic & Political Weekly (Special issue on National Family Health Survey),
2024, [Link to Publication]
Gendered Time Use and its Heterogeneities: The Role of Region, Religion and Caste (with Ashokankur Datta) , Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy (Special issue on Gender & Religion-based Disparities in South Asia), 2024 [Link to Publication]
Religious Institutions and Gendered Time Use: Evidence from Ramadan Festivities in India (with Ashokankur Datta),Journal of Population Economics, 2024 [Link to Publication]
Road Access, Fertility and Child Health in Rural India (with Anahita Karandikar and Devvrat Raghav), Population and Development Review, 2024 [Link to Publication] [Link to VOXEU article]
How does a ban on sex-selective abortions affect child health? (with Anisha Sharma), Health Economics, 2023, [Link to Publication]
Shifting gendered social norms: Impact of a mass media campaign on child health in India (with Anisha Sharma), The Journal of Development Studies, 2023 [Link to Publication] [Download PDF]
The nutritional cost of beef bans in India (with Farhan Majid and Wafa Hakim Orman), Journal of Development Economics, 2023 [Link to Publication] [Download PDF]
Infections Averted by a Comprehensive HIV Prevention Intervention and its Cost-effectiveness: A Prospective Cohort Study of Persons Who Inject Drugs in Delhi, India (with Lopamudra Ray Saraswati, Indrani Gupta, Julie Pulerwitz, Avina Sarna),Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2023 [Link to Publication]
Missing Women: A Review of Underlying Causes and Policy Responses (with Anisha Sharma), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2022, Oxford University Press [Link to Publication]
Disease Eradication, Infant Mortality, and Fertility Response: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India (with Shampa Bhattacharjee),The Journal of Development Studies, 2022 [Link to Publication] [Download PDF]
Gender-Based Discrimination in Health: Evidence From Cross-Country, Handbook of Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, Springer, 2022 [Link to Publication] [Download PDF]
Unintended Consequences of Indian Groundwater Preservation Law on Crop Residue Burning (with Meghna Agarwala and Shampa Bhattacharjee), Economics Letters, 2022 [Link to Publication] [Download PDF]
Preferences or expectations: Understanding the gender gap in major choice (with Anisha Sharma),Oxford Economic Papers, 2022 [Link to Publication] [Download PDF]
Identity and Learning: a study on the effect of student teacher gender interaction on student's learning outcomes (with Sukanta Bhattacharya, Kumarjit Mandal and Anirban Mukherjee), Research in Economics, 2021 [Link to Publication] [Download PDF]
Class or caste? A study on the role of caste and wealth status in school choice decision (with Sukanta Bhattacharya, Kumarjit Mandal and Anirban Mukherjee),Review of Development Economics, 2020 [Link to Publication] [Download PDF]
Systematic measurement error in self-reported health: is anchoring vignettes the way out?, IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2018 [Link to Publication] [Download PDF]
Can the Major Public Works Program in India Serve as Buffer against Negative Shocks? Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2017 [Link to Publication] [Download PDF]
Service utilization and cost of implementing a comprehensive HIV prevention and care program among people who inject drugs in Delhi, India (with Mary Philip Sebastian, Lopamudra Ray Saraswati, Asha Singh, Vartika Sharma, Ira Madan, Waimar Tun, Julie Pulerwitz, Ibou Thior, and Avina Sarna), Harm Reduction Journal, 2017 [Link to Publication]
Understanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from a Quasi Natural Experiment in China (with Dong Zhou), Review of Development Economics, 2016 [Link to Publication] [Download PDF]
Selected Working papers/Ongoing Projects
Are Gender Norms Systematic to Caste Institutions? Examining Preferences around Female Work Participation in North Indian Villages (with Ashokankur Datta) [Revised and Resubmitted, Applied Economics Letters]
The Effect of COVID-19 on Fertility in India: Evidence from the National Family Health Survey (with Gby Atee and Sneha Lamba) [Download working paper]
Gendered Transport Subsidy and its Short Run Effect on Female Employment: Evidence from Delhi's Pink Pass Scheme (with Ashokankur Datta) [Download working paper]
Rural Roads, Climate Change, and the Dynamics of Structural Transformation: Evidence from India (with Devvrat Raghav)
Electoral Cycles in Crop Residue Burning: Evidence from India (with Meghna Agarwala and Shampa Bhattacharjee)
Gendered Effect of Temperature on Time Use in India (with Ashokankur Datta and Anushree Khatri)
Effect of Teacher Transfers on Student Learning: Evidence from Haryana (with Akanksha Aggarwal and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay)
Gender, Birth Order and Later life Health Outcomes (with Simantini Mukhopadhyay and Gouri Nair)
Minimum Support Price Shocks and Nutritional Diversity (with Amit Daultani and Digvijay Negi)
The Cognitive Costs of Early Life Nutrition Shocks: Evidence From Beef Bans in India (with Farhan Majid and Wafa Hakim Orman)
Digital Connectivity and Learning in Rural India during COVID-19 (with Anulya Parameswaram and Yashveer Singh)
Popular press and other writing
The impact of road connectivity on fertility and child health in rural India, VOX EU, August 2024
How does a ban on sex-selective abortions affect child health? (with Anisha Sharma), Ideas for India, July 2023
How class and caste influence school choice (with Sukanta Bhattacharya, Kumarjit Mandal and Anirban Mukherjee), July 2023
Teacher-student gender matching and learning outcomes (with Sukanta Bhattacharya, Kumarjit Mandal and Anirban Mukherjee), March 2021
The perils of tackling skewed sex ratios through a crackdown on sex-selective abortions - CEDA Data Narrative, Centre for Economic Data and Policy Jan 2021(with Anisha Sharma)
INDIA: Surmounting the economic challenges of COVID-19. Counterpoint, Arthur D. Little’s Report. May 2020. with Ashwini Deshpande and Anisha Sharma
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Are we ready for the long haul? Ashoka University Policy Brief No. 1. Also published in Ideas for India, The Wire and Scroll. April 2020. With Abhinash Borah, Sabyasachi Das, Ashwini Deshpande, Kanika Mahajan, Bharat Ramaswami, Anuradha Saha, Anisha Sharma
Child health, fertility, and sex ratio: India vs. Bangladesh,Ideas for India,November, 2018
So that Mothers Can Work,The Indian Express, September, 2016
Self-reported health data: Issues and solutions ,Ideas for India, March, 2016
Nutrition for kids:Why Early Investment Matters, The Indian Express, October, 2015
Can MNREGA Buffer Negative Shocks in Early Childhood?,Ideas for India, August, 2014
Research Grants
Department of Economics Grant, Ashoka University, Minimum support policy and nutritional diversity (2024)
Department of Economics Grant, Ashoka University, “Labour saving agricultural mechanisation and its impact of the ‘non-labour’ time allocation of Indian women" (2021)
Azim Premji University research grant on The Puzzle of Declining Female Labour Force Participation in India(2018)
Azim Premji University research grant on Crop Residue Burning(CRB) and child health (2018)
CMGGA, Ashoka University on Examining Teacher transfer drive in Haryana on Pupil Teacher Ratio and Learning Outcomes Grant
The Centre for Social and Behaviour Change Research Grant (CSBC) on Understanding declining child sex-ratio and the role of communication programs in India(2017)
Privatisation in Education Research Initiative, University of Oxford research grant on School Quality, School Choice and Educational Outcome, External consultant May 2014-March 2015