Research

Working Papers

• What Happened to Midnight’s Children? Long-run Impacts of Refugee Resettlement during the 1947 Partition of British India with Siddharth George.

• Urban Informality in the Wake of Floods: Evidence from Mumbai.

• Navigating the Dry Corridor: Climate Change, Structural Transformation and Migration around the Corredor Seco in Central America with Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Remi Jedwab, and Roman Zarate.

• Partition and Land Inequality with Rinchan Ali Mira, Prashant Bharadwaj and Adeel Malik.

Presentations, Conferences

• "Urban Informality in the Wake of Floods: Evidence from Mumbai." Trade and Spatial Seminar. March 28, 2025. University of Chicago. &. Urban Economics Association, Summer School. July 23, 2025. Tufts University.

• "What Happened to Midnight’s Children? Long-run Impacts of Refugee Resettlement during the 1947 Partition of British India." Washington Area Development Economics Symposium. May 3, 2024. Georgetown University. &. Development Tea. January 24, 2025. University of Chicago.

• "The Return of Corruption in Pakistan - A Case Study of the 2018 General Elections in Pakistan." Collective Behavior, Social Media and Systemic Risk. August 17-18, 2018. Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs, Princeton University.

• Partition Museum Opening. Interviewee, Punjab Channel 4 News. 17th August 2017, Town Hall, Amritsar, Punjab, India.

• Roundtable Discussion, Looking Back, Informing the Future: The 1947 Partition of British India. Contributor. August 10, 2017. Harvard South Asia Institute (SAI) and The Critical Collective, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India.

• "Crowdsourcing of Oral Histories and Historical Crisis Mapping," with Dr. Tarun Khanna, HBS and Shubhangi Bhadada, HLS, Harvard University South Asia Institute. May 8-10, 2017. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

• “Crowdsourcing Memories of Partition," with Karim Lakhani, HBS & IQSS. March 1, 2017. Partition Seminar Series, Harvard University South Asia Institute, Cambridge, MA.

• Focus Group Discussion, led Q&A and discussion following seminar, Partition Seminar Series. February 1, February 15, and March 1, 2017. Partition Seminar Series, Harvard University South Asia Institute, Cambridge, MA.

• "Transmission of Monetary Policy to Emerging Markets: Monetary Policy and Financial Stability in an Integrated World", with Dora Simon and Alexandros Georgakopoulos. June 6, 2014.  Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain.

Popular Articles

• Crowdsourcing Historical Data - 1947 Partition of British India Crisis Mapping. June, 2017.

• Regional country report on the obstacles facing business and firm growth in Africa. Inside South African Times - feature Article. October, 2015.

Policy Writing

• Private Sector Development in Conflict Affected States with Ethan Kapstein, Jacob N. Shapiro, and Zenobia Chan. (2018). Policy Paper to UK DFID.