Research
Working Papers:
Female Legislators and Forest Conservation in India (with Sutirtha Bandyopadhyay, Pranabes Dutta & Naveen Hari) [paper], June 2024.
Political Regime and Women's Marriage Outcomes (with Sumedha Shukla), [paper], May 2024. [An earlier version was circulated as "The Long Term Effect of the Taliban Regime on Women's Age at Marriage in Afghanistan"]
Soil Endowments and Intra-Household Distribution of Consumption in India: A Structural Approach (with Sutirtha Bandyopadhyay), [paper], December 2023. [An earlier version received the Delhi School of Economics & Econometric Society Best Paper Award in Econometrics/Applied Econometrics at 2022 Delhi Winter School] [Ideas for India Blog on the paper] (revise and resubmit, Economic Development and Cultural Change)
Widowhood and Consumption of Private Assignable Goods: The Role of Socio-Economic Status, Rainfall Shocks and Historical Institutions (with Sutirtha Bandyopadhyay), [GLO Discussion Paper No. 1021], December 2021.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications:
Cultural Norms and Women's Health: Implications of the Practice of Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal (with Rahul Kumar), World Development Perspectives, Vol 27, 100450, September 2022.
The Impact of Work-Life Balance Policies on the Time Allocation and Fertility Preference of Japanese Women (with Miki Kohara), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol 60, 101134, June 2021.
Consumption and Time-Use Effects of India's Employment Guarantee and Women's Participation Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol 68, No. 4, pp. 1185-1231, July 2020.
Comparing Health Outcomes Across Scheduled Tribes and Castes in India World Development, Vol 96, pp. 163-181, August 2017.
Inter-State Differences in the Performance of Anganwadi Centres under ICDS Scheme Economic & Political Weekly, Vol LI, Issue 51, pp. 59-66, December 2016.
Work in Progress:
The Legacy of Female Landlords in India (with Siwan Anderson)