Selected peer-reviewed publications

1. The Effects of Childhood Immunization Program on Health and Education: Micro-Evidence from India. 2026, accepted in Journal of Population Economics)

2. Building Teacher Capacity or Outsourcing Pedagogy? Experimental Evidence from Science Education Reform. 2026 (with Nishith Prakash, Ariel Gomez, Vinay Jha, Sandeep Kumar, and Soham Sahoo), accepted in Journal of Development Economics (pre-results review) 

3. 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

4.  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 

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

6. Effects of the 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

7. 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

8. 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.

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

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

11. 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].

12. 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]

13. 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]

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

15. 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]

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