Research

Publications

1. Aggarwal, Khushboo, Rashmi Barua and Marian Vidal-Fernandez (2024). Still Waters Run Deep: Groundwater Contamination and Education Outcomes in India, Economics of Education Review, Volume 100, 2024, 102525

2. Barua, Rashmi, Ian Hoefer-Marti and Marian Vidal-Fernandez (2024). Wheeling into school and out of crime: Evidence from linking driving licenses to minimum academic requirements, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 217, January 2024, Pages 334-377

3. Barua, Rashmi, Prarthna Agarwal Goel & Renuka Sane (2023). Son Preference and Crime in India (Featured in Deccan Herald), Review of Economics of the Household, 21, 1127–1151 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-023-09647-9 

4. Agarwal Goel, Prarthna, & Rashmi Barua (2021). Female education, marital assortative mating, and dowry: Theory and evidence from districts of India. Journal of Demographic Economics, 1-27. doi:10.1017/dem.2021.23 

5. Abarcar, Paolo, Rashmi Barua & Dean Yang (2020). Financial Education and Financial Access for Transnational Households: Field Experimental Evidence from the Philippines, Economic Development & Cultural Change, Volume 69, Number 1, October 2020

6. Barua, Rashmi,  Gauri Kartini Shastry, Dean Yang (2020). Financial education for female foreign domestic workers in Singapore, Economics of Education Review, Volume 78, 2020

7. Barua, Rashmi, Benedict Koh & Olivia Mitchell (2018) “Does Financial Education Enhance Financial Preparedness? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Singapore” (Media Coverage in Today, Singapore) Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Volume 17 (3), July 2018 , pp. 254-277

8. Rashmi Barua (2017) “Labour, Employment and Economic Growth in India”, Vol. 10 Issue: 1, pp.62-64, Indian Growth and Development Review

9. Barua, Rashmi & Kevin Lang (2016) “School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of a Local Average Treatment Effect” Volume 10, No. 3, Pages 347–376, Fall 2016, Journal of Human Capital

10. Barua, Rashmi (2014) “Intertemporal Substitution in Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence Using State School Entrance Age Laws” , Volume 31, Pages 129-140, December 2014, Labour Economics

11. Barua, Rashmi & Marian Vidal-Fernandez (2014) “No Pass, No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time” Volume 8, No. 4, Pages 399-431, Winter 2014, Journal of Human Capital (Featured in Forbes and Nevada Senate Committee on Education )

Revise and Resubmit

1. “Gender Disparities in the Prevalence of Undernutrition in India: The Unexplored Effects of Drinking Contaminated Water” (with Khushboo Aggarwal), R & R, Environment and Development Economics

Working Papers

1. “Short Run Effects of Skill Training for the Unemployed Youth in India” (with Pratibha Joshi and Swati Singh)

2. “Water Water Everywhere, Not a Drop to Drink? Information & Enabling Access to Clean Water in India”  (with Prarthna Agarwal Goel and Sujatha Srinivasan), April 2024, Under Review 

Link to AEA registry: https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/8358

Work in Progress

1. Gender and Migration: Evidence from Vocational Skill Training in India (with Swati Singh)

2. Effect of school mergers on academic performance in India (with Sangeeta Bansal and Pooja Rathore)

Permanent Working Paper

“School Entry Age and Academic Performance", (with Kevin Lang), Unpublished Mimeo, March 2008.