Research

Fields

Development Economics, Gender Economics, Labor Economics

Papers under Review

Marriage Market Responses in the Wake of a Natural Disaster in India (with Shreyasee Das).

Publications

Hidden Costs of Industrial Disasters: Marriage Market Consequences of the Bhopal Gas Disaster (with Shreyasee Das), accepted, Economics Bulletin.

Selection into Internal Migration in Indonesia (with Edward Kosack), accepted, Empirical Economics Letters.

Female Political Representation and Gender Attitudes in Rural India, Journal of Developing Areas, 56(4), 2022.

Attitudes about Wife-Beating and Incidence of Domestic Violence in India: An Instrumental Variables Analysis, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 40(4), 2019.

Impact of Exposure to Mass Media on Female Empowerment: Evidence from India, International Journal of Development Issues, 18(2), 2019.

Marriage, Cultural Norms (with S Anukriti), prepared for inclusion in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Intimate and Family Relationships, ed. James J. Ponzetti, MacMillan Publishers, 2018.

Paying for Violence? Spousal Abuse and Son Preference in India (with Erin K. Fletcher), Journal of Development Studies, 54(7), 2018.

Marriage Markets in Developing Countries (with S Anukriti), in Oxford Handbook of Marriage and the Family, Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman eds., Oxford University Press, 2018.

The Gender Pay Gap and Son Preference: Evidence from India (with Terry-Ann Craigie), Oxford Development Studies, 45(4), 2017.

Son Preference and Gender Gaps in Child Nutrition: Does the Level of Female Autonomy Matter?, Review of Development Economics, 20(2), 2016.

Women’s Partner Choices and Gender Relations in India, Indian Journal of Economics & Business, 13(3), 2014.

Working Papers

Is Sex-Selective Abortion Associated With a Reduction in Gender Differentials in Child Health Investments? Evidence from India