ONGOING RESEARCH

Working Papers 

1. Do 'Women Hold Up Half the Sky' in Fuel Choices? Revisiting the Role of Adolescent Empowerment in a Developing Country Context (with Prashant Poddar), Revise and Resubmit, World Development

2. Long Term Labor Market Consequences of Keeping Girls in School: Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer in India (with Saheli Bose), Revise and Resubmit, Feminist Economics

3. Female Politicians and Corruption in Rural India (with Shiv Hastawala and Elisa Taveras), Revise and Resubmit, European Journal of Political Economy

4. State Capacity and the Catch-Up Effect (with Shubham Ojha), Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Development Studies

5. Does Paternal Exposure to an Industrial Disaster affect Early Life Health Investments of Children? (with Sarthak Agarwal and Shreyasee Das), Revise and Resubmit, Environment and Development Economics

6. The Curious Curse of the Absentee Voter: New Evidence on Political Parties and Candidate Selection from India (with Arghya Banerjee and Manhar Manchanda)

7. Internalizing the Negative Externality from Urbanization: Evidence from India's Rurban Mission (with Manhar Manchanda and Shubham Ojha)

8. Income Shock and Women's Health Spending: Evidence from India (with Shubhangi Agrawal, Sambit Bhattacharyya and Chirantan Chatterjee)

9. Leveraging Upward Inter-Generational Spillovers for Sustainable Living: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in India (with Debdatta Pal and Shreya Mishra)

10. Delivering Contraceptives at the Doorstep: Reducing Costs of Access or Increasing Costs of Stigma? (with Prashant Poddar and Shreya Mishra)

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

12. The Relevant Third: Threat of Coalition and Economic Development (with Sourav Bhattacharya, Pushkar Maitra and Manhar Manchanda)

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

14. A Wedding Gift from the Government!! - On Marriage Subsidies and Fertility Preferences in India (with Sulagna Bhattacharya and Shubham Ojha)

15. Droughts: Learning Continuity and Recovery (with Neeraj Katewa)

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

17. 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) 

18. Cost Learning Effect in the Used Product Market and its Impact on Seller's Choice in the Presence of Multiple Resellers (with Pinakhi Suvadarshini and  Indranil Biswas)

Works in Progress

1. Navigating Health Choices Under Cognitive Constraints: Evidence from India (with Chon-Kit Ao, Chien Yu-Lai and Naveen Sunder)

2. The Political Economy of Protest Voting (with Sarthak Agarwal and Manhar Manchanda)

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

5. 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 

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

7. Refugee Rehabilitation in Ethiopia: Impacts on Locals (with Sulagna Bhattacharya and Ralitza Dimova), very preliminary 

Permanent Working Papers

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