ONGOING RESEARCH

Working Papers 

1. Centralized Governance, Mis-Aligned Household Preferences, and Publicly Provided Education: Evidence from Vietnam (with David Fielding and Manhar Manchanda)

2. The Relevant Third: Threat of Coalition and Economic Development (with Pushkar Maitra and Manhar Manchanda)

3. Labor Market Penalty for Single Mothers (with Ralitza Dimova and Shubham Ojha)

4. Who Benefits from Appeals to Vote? Evidence from a Get-out-the-Vote (GOTV) Campaign in India (with Manhar Manchanda)

5. A Violent Win: How Conflict Affects Political Competition in India? (with Manhar Manchanda)

6. Nutri-Farming! Estimating the Impacts of a Nutritional Security Program on Agricultural Productivity (with Sarthak Agarwal)

7. Droughts! (with Neeraj Katewa)

8. Family Planning in Mission Mode: Evidence from India's Mission Parivar Vikas (MPV) Program (with Sarthak Agarwal and  Oindrila Dey)

9. Does Paternal Exposure to an Industrial Disaster affect Early Life Health Investments of Children? (with Sarthak Agarwal and Shreyasee Das)

10. Conditionality Matters -  A Samaritan's Dilemma with In-Kind Transfers Targeting Educational Attainment (with Oindrila Dey) 

11. Sweet Cash: Is Healthcare a Normal Good for Women in Developing Countries? (with Shubhangi Agrawal, Sambit Bhattacharyya and Chirantan Chatterjee)

12. Revisiting Gender Inequality in Healthcare: New Evidence from Eye Surgeries in India (with Chirantan Chatterjee, Anthony Vipin Das, Raja Narayanan, Shubhangi Agrawal and Puja Roy) 

Works in Progress

1. A Bottom-Up Approach to Sustainable Living: Can Informed Kids Inform their Parents? (with Debdatta Pal and Shreya Mishra)

2. The Impacts of Women Empowerment Programs on Fuel Choice: Evidence from India's SABLA Program (with Prashant Poddar)

3. Estimating the efficacy of "Art-Integrated Learning" Pedagogy - Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial (with Chon-Kit Ao and Josie Chen), working title

4. Doorstep Delivery of Contraceptives: Does Access Imply Usage? (with Prashant Poddar)

5. Impact of Linguistic Peers and Cultural Assimilation on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Residential Schools in India (with Tarun Jain and Neeraj Katewa), very preliminary 

6. Simplifying Science to Improve Learnings at Primary Levels: A Study of School-going Students in Uttar Pradesh (with Tarun Jain and Deepak Singhania), very preliminary 

7.  Intergenerational English Language Premium: Evidence from India (with Tanika Chakraborty and Shubham Ojha)

Permanent Working Paper

1. Effect of Leadership and Contract Sequence on Three-echelon Supply Chain Coordination (with Anupam Agrawal,  Indranil Biswas and Rohit Gupta)

2. Marketing Government Policies through Emotional Nudges: Theory and Experimental Evidence  (with Prashant Poddar, Indranil Biswas and Fuzail Ahmad)

3. "The Effects of Political Reservations on Credit Access and Borrowing Composition: New Evidence from India" (with Chon-Kit Ao) GLO Discussion Paper No: 227, Global Labor Organization, Maastricht