Publications
Aggarwal, Khushboo and Rashmi Barua (2025) “Gender Disparities in the Prevalence of Undernutrition in India: The Unexplored Effects of Drinking Contaminated Water”, Environment and Development Economics. 2025;30(2):114-134. .
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
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
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
Agarwal Goel, Prarthna, & Rashmi Barua (2023). Female education, marital assortative mating, and dowry: Theory and evidence from districts of India. Journal of Demographic Economics, Jun2023, Vol. 89 Issue 2, p183-209. 27p.
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
Barua, Rashmi, Gauri Kartini Shastry, Dean Yang (2020). Financial education for female foreign domestic workers in Singapore, Economics of Education Review, Volume 78, 2020
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
Rashmi Barua (2017) Labour, Employment and Economic Growth in India, Vol. 10 Issue: 1, pp.62-64, Indian Growth and Development Review
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
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
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 )
Submitted & Working Papers
Mind Matters: The Unintended Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Mental Health of Adolescents (with Marian Vidal-Fernandez, Khushboo Aggarwal and Rajdeep Chaudhuri), <New Paper>
Homes of Harm: Spousal Violence and Child Malnutrition in India (with Noyel Sebastian), <New Paper> Under Review
Awareness to Action: Effects of Providing Information and Enabling Access to Clean Water in India (with Prarthna Agarwal Goel and Deboshmita Brahma), <New Paper> Under Review
Short Run Effects of Skill Training for the Unemployed Youth in India (with Pratibha Joshi and Swati Singh) https://ssrn.com/abstract=4195496
Skilled but Invisible: The Gendered Impact of Skill Training on Employment and Migration (with Swati Singh and Pratibha Joshi). Under Review
School Consolidation, Academic Performance and Peer Effects (with Sangeeta Bansal and Pooja Rathore), Nov 2024
Work In Progress
Providing Girls Another Chance at Education in India: Enablers and Barriers (with Robert Garlick and Shobhini Mukerji). Link to AEA registry: link
Alcohol Addiction, Mental Health and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from an Experiment in Assam, India (with Deepshikha Batheja, Jere Behrman, Abhijit Nadkarni and Subha Mani)
Interventions in school education and learning (with Gitanjali Sen and Khushi Mehta)
Permanent Working Paper
“School Entry Age and Academic Performance", (with Kevin Lang), Unpublished Mimeo, March 2008.