Research

Backlash at the Ballot Box: Electoral Repercussions of Climate Activism  (joint with Quynh Do, Curtin University). July 2025. Under Revision.

Partisan Alignment, Insurgency and Security: Evidence from the Indian Red-corridor (Joint with Ashani Amarasinghe, University of Sydney and Yuchen Zhong, University of Melbourne). February 2025. Under Revision.

Impacts of a Partial Welfare Reform on Targeting and Political Competition (Joint with Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University, Sujata Visaria, City St. George's, University of London, and Sandip Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata). January 2026.

• Previously circulated as Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition based Evidence from an Indian State.  NBER Working Paper Version. 

• Podcast. Coffee House Experience. 

The Relevant Third (Joint with Sourav Bhattacharya, IIM Calcutta, Somdeep Chatterjee, IIM Calcutta and Manhar Manchanda, IIM Calcutta). January 2026. 

Equalizing Rural Education: A Policy Evaluation of Teacher Allocation in Disadvantaged Areas  (Joint with Jinqiu Jiang, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China). Februrary 2026. 

Do Status and Identity Shape Adherence to Advice? (Joint with Lata Gangadharan, Monash University, Joseph Vecci, University of Gothenburg, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil International Rice Research Institute and Marie Claire Villeval, GATE, University of Lyon). January 2026. 

The COVID-19 health shock and disability gaps in the Indonesian labour market (Joint with Mohammad Farhad, University of Western Australia, Mark Harris, Curtin University and Anu Rammohan, University of Western Australia). January 2026. 

Does Public Redistribution Crowd Out Private Transfers? Evidence from Four Countries (Joint with Alistair Cameron, Lata Gangadharan, Monash University, Paulo Santos, Monash University and Joseph Vecci, University of Gothenburg). October 2025.

Effects of Early Life Shocks on Children’s Physical and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Vietnam (Joint with Hien Tran, Monash University). January 2026. Work in Progress.

Gender and Third-Party Responses to Transgressions (Joint with Kalyani Chaudhuri, University of California, Davis, Lata Gangadharan, Monash University and Tarun Jain, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad). Work in Progress.

On the Origins of Misogyny (Joint with Alistair Cameron, Lata Gangadharan and Paulo Santos, Monash University). Work in Progress.

Marketing Frictions in West Bengal's Potato Supply Chain (Joint with Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University, Sujata Visaria, City St. George's, University of London, and Sandip Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata). Work in Progress.

• Presentation of an early version. January 2026.

Unlikely to ever be published 😢

The Behavioral Implications of Women's Empowerment Programs (Joint with Lata Gangadharan, Monash University, Tarun Jain, Indian School of Business and Joseph Vecci, Monash University). UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2016/64.

Agent Intermediated Lending: A New Approach to Microfinance (Joint with Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University, Sujata Visaria, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Alberto Motta, University of New South Wales and Sandip Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata).  Latest Version March 2013.

The Long Shadow of Infrastructure Development: Long Run Effects of Railway Construction in Colonial India (Joint with William Yu, Monash University). October 2025.