I am presently a faculty member at the Centre for the Study of the World Economy (CSWE), formerly the Centre for International Trade and Development, at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. In addition to my academic role, I currently serve as the Deputy Director of the JNU Placement Cell. Starting November 2025, I will be joining as an Associate Professor at the Economics and Planning Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), New Delhi. 

Before joining JNU, I held positions at the School of Economics, Singapore Management University (SMU), and the Economics and Planning Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), New Delhi. 

My research lies at the intersection of education, health, and labor economics, with a strong focus on gender, human capital formation, and household decision-making in developing countries. I use applied microeconomic methods, including experimental and quasi-experimental approaches, to study how policies and social norms shape educational outcomes, labor market participation, and well-being. 

I have published in several leading peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Human Capital, Labour Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Review of Economics of the Household, and Economics of Education Review, among others.

I am an invited researcher at J-PAL, a Research Fellow at the Environment for Development (EfD) initiative, and a core member of the Society for Economics Research in India (SERI). A native of India, I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University in 2009.