Publications

• The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement: Japanese American Incarceration during WWII, Daniel Grossman and Laura Panza, NBER WP31992 - Journal of Public Economics, 2025

• Housing Improvement and Crime, with Viviane Sanfelice - Journal of Public Economics, 2025

• Procedural Barriers to Political Candidacy: Gender, Discouragement, and Candidate Persistence, with Marco Faravelli and Sundar Ponnusamy  [Media: Times of India;  Monash Impact; tickerNEWS; ]  - Conditionally Accepted, the Economic Journal

• Religiosity and Crime: Evidence from a City-Wide Shock , with Wang-Sheng Lee, David Johnston, and Arijit Ray - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2025

• Religion and Persecution, with Laura Panza CEPR Discussion Paper No  16121 - Journal of Economic Growth, 2024

• Post-Marital Residence and Female Wellbeing, with Sulagna Mookerjee and Arijit Ray - Journal of Population Economics, 2024

• The Heterogeneous Role of Party Affiliation in the Runner-up Effect, with Mandar Oak and Sundar Ponnusamy - Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024

• Neighborhood Crime and Infant Health, with Daniel Grossman - Journal of Urban Economics, 2022

• A Test of the Selection-on-Observables Assumption Using a Discontinuously Distributed Covariate, with Nese Yildiz  - Journal of Econometrics, 2022

• Professional Sports Events and Public Spending, with Hyunwoong Pyun and Brad Humphreys  - Journal of Sports Economics, 2022

• Political Favouritism by Powerful Politicians: Evidence from Chief Ministers in India, with Mandar Oak and Sundar Ponnusamy - European Journal of Political Economy, 2021 

• Neighborhood Networks and Program Participation, with Daniel Grossman - Journal of Health Economics, 2020 [pre-publication pdf] 

• Terrorism and Early Childhood Health Outcomes: Evidence from Pakistan, with Daniel Grossman and Arijit Ray - Social Science & Medicine 2019 [pre-publication pdf]

• Social Interactions in Voting Behavior: Evidence from India, with Sulagna Mookerjee and Ryan Tierney - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019  

• Urban Transport and Crime: Evidence from Unanticipated Mass Transit Strikes, with Greg DeAngelo, Kaj Gittings, and Daniel Grossman - Economic Inquiry, 2019

• Identification and Estimation of a Triangular Model with Multiple Endogenous Variables and Insufficiently Many Instrumental Variables, with Liquan Huang and Nese Yildiz - Journal of Econometrics, 2019

• Patrilocal Residence and Women's Social Status: Evidence from South Asia, with Sulagna Mookerjee - Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019 

• Do More Guns Lead to More Crime? Understanding the Role of Illegal Firearms - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017 

Working Papers

• Game Over: Emotional Triggers and Gendered Violence, with Sara Hutchinson Tovar and Sonja DeNew

• The Gendered Impact of Terrorism on Human Capital Accumulation in Pakistan, with Sonja DeNew and Sundar Ponnusamy 

• Slave Trade and the Spread of Islam in Africa: Theory and Evidence, with Akwasi Ampofo,  Laura Panza,  and Francisco Silva

• Radiating Influence? Spillover Effects Among Physicians, with Giovanni van Empel, Daniel Avdic, and Johannes Kunz

• The Medium-term Impact of Exposure to Floods on Child Health and Education in Pakistan”, with Qaisar Khan - Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Development Studies

• Terrorism and Misperceptions: Evidence from Europe, with K. Peren Arin, Deni Mazrekaj, and Marcel Thum - Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

• Can Religion and Science Play a Complementary Role in Raising Environmental Awareness? , with Armand Sim, Sarah Gultom, Wang Sheng-Lee, and Alyas Widita 

Work in Progress

• Climate Shocks, Crop Cycles, and Child Discipline, with Sulagna Mookerjee, and Arijit Ray

• The Effect of Firearm Seizures on Criminal Activity, with Viviane Sanfelice

• Historical Coexistence and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Native American Self-Determination, with Daniel Grossman, MohammadHossein Hadi, and Arijit Ray

• Does Militarization Increase Intimate Partner Violence? Evidence from Mexico’s “War on Drugs”, with Daniela Philipson Garcia and Jacqui True

Resting Papers

• Maternal Smoking Across Trimesters and Birth Outcomes: A Study of Nonrandom Selection, with Carolina Caetano and Kenneth Chay