Selected peer-reviewed publications

1. Improved water access protects against stunting more than wasting: A national analysis from Mozambique. 2025. (with Castillo, J.P., Molinaro, C.A., Pater, W.E.) Children, 12(10, 1414

 2.  On the Road to a Better Life? Rural Road and Economic Development in Albania. 2025. with (llirjani, E., Ukil, P.) European Journal of Development Research. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-025-00720-w 

3. Calorie Consumption and Wages: Evidence from India's Labor Market. 2025. (with Kumar, K., Singh, A., Singh, A.) Economic Modelling, Volume 152, 107279.  

4. Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on low birth weight in a nationwide study in India. 2024. (with Hill, C. & Halliday, T.J.) Nature-Communications Medicine, 4, 118. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-024-00545-4

5. Relationship between adolescent anemia and school attendance observed during a nationally representative survey in India. 2024. (with  De Neve, JW., Karlsson, O., Rai, R.K., Vollmer, S) Nature-Communications Medicine, 4, 112. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-024-00533-8

6. Medium-run impacts of iron-fortified school lunch on anemia, cognition, and learning outcomes in India. 2023.  (with Grafenstein L., Kumar A., Vollmer S. ), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 85(6):1262-1294.

7. Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Evidence from India. 2023. (with Nahlen, Bernard. ) Economics Letters, Volume 224, 111023.

8. Birth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood: Evidence from India. 2022 (with Kaushalendra Kumar, Ramanan Laxminarayan, and Arindam Nandi) (Economic Papers) [Link]

9. Improving child health and cognition: Evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India. 2021. (with Marion Krämer and Sebastian Vollmer) Review of Economics and Statistics, 103(5): 818-834 [Link].

10. Anemia, diet, and cognitive development: Impact of health information on diet quality and child nutrition in rural India. 2021. (with Marion Krämer and Sebastian Vollmer). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 190:495-523. [Link]

11. Childhood Vaccinations and Adult Schooling Attainment: Long-Term Evidence from India's Universal Immunisation Programme. 2020. (with Arindam Nandi, Anita Shet, David Bloom, Ramanan Laxminarayan). Social Science & Medicine (2020), Volume 250, 112885. [Link]

12. Effects of health insurance on birth weight in Mexico. 2018. with Fidel Gonzalez. Health Economics, 27(8): 1149:59. [Link]

13. The impact of rural electrification on income and education: Evidence from Bhutan. 2018. (with Ganesh Rauniyar). Review of Development Economics, 22(3): 1146:65. [Link]

14. "Prenatal care and Birthweight in Mexico. 2018. with Fidel Gonzalez. Applied Economics. 50(10):1156-1170. [Link]