I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. I am an applied economist who studies firms in developing countries. My work analyzes what drives the productivity and growth of firms in economies characterized by substantial market failures; in particular, how the performance of firms and allocation of resources across firms interacts with various frictions prevalent in developing economies. For more information, please see my CV.
[1.] Working it out: Randomized Restructuring and Entrepreneurial Effort in a Collateralized Debt Market (with Christopher Eaglin, Filippo Mezzanotti and Jonathan Zinman) [pdf] (July 2025)
[2.] Demographics and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Mobile Payments (with Nicolas Crouzet, Pulak Ghosh and Filippo Mezzanotti) [ssrn] [pdf] (March 2024)
[3.] Information Frictions and Take-up of Government Credit Programs (with Pulak Ghosh, Jacopo Ponticelli and Andrea Tesei) [pdf] (May 2025)
[Revise and resubmit, Review of Financial Studies]
[4.] Demand for Quality, Variable Markups and Misallocation: Evidence from India [ssrn] [pdf] (February 2024)
[Revise and resubmit, AEJ: Applied Economics]
[5.] Shocks and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Electronic Payment Systems (with Nicolas Crouzet and Filippo Mezzanotti) [pdf] (Journal of Political Economy, November 2023)
[6.] Language Barriers, Technology Adoption and Productivity: Evidence from Agriculture in India (with Jacopo Ponticelli and Andrea Tesei) [pdf] (April 2024) [Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics]