PI, Gender sharing between local leaders and frontline workers: Implications for Public Services, 2022-23 with Soledad Prillaman (Stanford) and Anupam Sharma (IITGN). Funding Agency: Azim Premji Research Foundation, INR 8,00,000

PI, Local Governance and Frontline Public Service Delivery, 2022-23. Funding Agency: IIT Gandhinagar, INR 10,00,000

Co-PI, Topographic and climatic controls on surface - groundwater dynamics, ravine land development and its implications on social welfare and development planning. Funding Agency: Wheels India Niswarth Foundation. INR 12,60,000

Co-PI, Implementation Phase of Research and Evidence for Nepal's Transition, 2020 with Rohini Pande (Yale) and Michael Callen (London School of Economics). Funding agency: DFID-UK, $78,576 (Sub-grant amount)

PI, Project on nutrition service delivery adaptations by frontline workers during COVID-19. Funding agency- IFPRI, 2020, INR 30,05,205

Co-PI, Inception Phase of Research and Evidence for Nepal's Transition, 2019 with Rohini Pande (Yale) and Michael Callen (London School of Economics). Funding agency: DFID-UK, $44,973

Co-PI, Pathways Out of Poverty: The Role of Sectoral Transitions in Indonesia , 2016, with Steven Helfand (UCR). Funding agency: Initiative for Global and Regional Poverty,University of California Riverside, USA, $9,000

J-PAL Governance Initiative Conference Travel Grant, October 2019

Dissertation Year Program Fellowship, 2016-2017, UCR $14,400

Graduate Dean's Dissertation Research Grant, UCR, 2015, $750

Graduate Student Grant to Purchase Data, Economics Department, UCR, 2015, $400

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UCR, 2015

Dean's Distinguished Fellowship, UC - Riverside, 2012-13

Best paper, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (India), 5th Doctoral Colloquium, 2012

ICSSR (Govt. of India) scholarship for presenting at a conference at UC Berkeley, 2011