Research
Publications
"The Protestant Legacy: Missions, Gender, and Human Capital in India" with Federico Mantovanelli and Lauren Hoehn Velasco
Journal of Human Resources, Forthcoming
Final Manuscript Online AppendixJournal of Political Economy, 2020
Policy Articles/Media Briefings: Rice News, Development Impact, VoxDev, Ideas for India, The Print, RES, La 27esima Ora
"Long-Term Effects of Access to Health Care: Medical Missions in Colonial India" with Federico Mantovanelli
Journal of Development Economics, 2018
Policy Articles/Media Briefings: VoxDev, Ideas for India
Working Papers
"'Til Dowry Do Us Part: Bargaining and Violence in Indian Families" with Ajinkya Keskar
Policy Articles/Media Briefings: VoxDev
"Dowries, Resource Allocation, and Poverty" with Ajinkya Keskar
"The More the Poorer? Resource Sharing and Scale Economies in Large Families" with Jacob Penglase, Denni Tommasi and Alexander Wolf
Policy Articles/Media Briefings: IZA Newsroom
"Sharing the Pie: An Analysis of Undernutrition and Individual Consumption in Bangladesh" with Caitlin Brown and Jacob Penglase
Revision resubmitted, Journal of Public Economics
"Women’s Empowerment and Family Health: Estimating LATE with Mismeasured Treatment" with Arthur Lewbel and Denni Tommasi
Revision requested, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
Selected Work in Progress
"Terms of Engagement: Migration, Dowry, and Love in Indian Marriages" with Andrew Beauchamp and Scott Fulford
"Informed Citizens and Political Entry: Evidence From a Large Education Program in India" with S Anukriti and Abhishek Chakravarty
Previous Works (2009-2011)
"Measuring International Spillovers During Economic Expansions and Slowdowns" with Marco Lombardi and Filippo Di Mauro
Published in Y.-W. Cheung and F. Westermann (eds), Global Interdependence, Decoupling, and Recoupling, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 19-36
"Assessing Financial Integration: A Comparison Between Europe and East Asia"
Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission, Economic Papers 423