Job Market Paper

• Who Gains from Market Integration? Rural Roads and Social Protection

Publications

• The Persistent Legacy: Colonial Railroads and Agricultural Productivity in Africa, with Sandeep Mohapatra 

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2026

• The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics, with Nick Huntington-Klein, Claus Pörtner, et al. 

Journal of Economic Literature, forthcoming, 2026

NBER Working Paper no. 33729  |IZA Discussion Paper 

• Temperature and Farm Labor in the Tropics 

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2025 

Replication Package

• Distributional effects of energy costs, with Sandeep Mohapatra 

Energy Economics, 2024

Working Papers 

• Unreliable Electricity in Developing Countries, with Stuti Khemani

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2026 | Replication Package |World Bank Blog

R & R at Energy Policy

• Road and Misallocation in Agriculture

• Immigration, Firm Dynamics, and Misallocation, with Sandeep Mohapatra

• Climate Shocks and Child Labor in Rural India, with Sandeep Mohapatra

Under Review

• Climate Change, Agricultural Productivity, and Farm Insurance

CAPI Working Paper, 2025

(Selected) Work in Progress

• Election Cycle, Perceived Identity and Conflict (with Stuti Khemani)

• Road to Jobs? Transportation Investments and Structural Transformation (with Martin Paul Jr. Tabe-Ojong)

• Roads and Land-Use Change in Tropical Africa (with Martin Paul Jr. Tabe-Ojong)

• Safety Nets as Market Multipliers: In-kind Transfers and Roads in General Equilibrium 

• Spatial Competition and Food Prices in Ethiopia (with Martin Paul Jr. Tabe-Ojong)