WORKING PAPERS :

1. Gender-Specific Transportation Costs and Female Time Use: Evidence from India's Pink Slip Program [Conditionally Accepted, The Economic Journal]  (with Yutong Chen, Kerem Cosar, Shirish Mahendru, and Sheetal Sekhri)  [NBER Working Paper] [CEPR Discussion Paper] 

2. Labor shopping substitution and retail prices: Evidence from plant openings  [Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Political Economy: Macro] (with Abhishek Bharadwaj, Saptarshi Mukherjee, and Manpreet Singh)

3. Trade Policy and Access to Intermediate Inputs: Quantifying the Welfare Costs of a Fertilizer Shortage [March 2026] (with Eduardo Fraga and Ana Fernandes)

4. Short-stay High-skilled Migration and the Globalization of Firms [January 2026] (with Zhiling Wang)

5. Unpacking Non-Tariff Measures: Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg [Preliminary, June 2025] (with Shafaat Yar Khan and Angella Faith Montfaucon)

6. Production Networks and Firm-Level Elasticities of Substitution [January 2025] (with Brian Cevallos Fujiy and Gaurav Khanna) 

WORKS IN PROGRESS (draft coming soon) :

1. The Impact of Infrastructure on Services Trade: Evidence from the Øresund Bridge (with Patrik Karpaty, Bengt Söderlund, and Yingyan Zhao)

2. What's in a Name? Implications of Extensive Margin Mismeasurement in International Trade (with Ana Fernandes, Alejandro Forero, and Piyush Panigrahi)

3. How (in)efficient are governments? Evidence from import transactions data (with Manuel Garc´ıa-Santana and Bob Rijkers)

4. Federal Research Funding and STEM Education (with Emily E. Cook and Ekaterina Khmelnitskaya)

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Trade, Internal Migration, and Human Capital: Who Gains from India's IT Boom?  [Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics]  Recognitions: Winner of 2019 F.R.E.I.T. Graduate Student Competition, Finalist for 2021 Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award, University of Virginia Outstanding Dissertation Award. Blogs: Ideas for India, livemint

2. Trade Policy and Exporter's Resilience: Evidence from Indonesia [Journal of Development Economics, February 2026, Vol. 179(03561)] (with Massimiliano Cali, Simón Caicedo Graciano, Angella Faith Montfaucon, Michele Ruta) 

3. The Effects of Communal Violence on Women's Marital Outcomes [Demography, June 2025, Vol. 62(3)] (with Divya Pandey) 

4. Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes [Journal of Economic Geography, September 2022, Vol. 22(5)] (with Kerem Cosar, Banu Demir Pakel, Nathaniel Young)  Blogs: Let's Talk Development, VoxEU Article

​Other Work (non-peer reviewed or in other fields): 

5. Field scale rice area and yield mapping in Sri Lanka with optical remote sensing and limited training data [Remote Sensing, September 2025, Vol. 17(17)] (with Mutlu Özdoğan, Sherrie Wang, Eduardo Fraga, Ana Fernandes, Gonzalo Varela)

6. Higher Education Response to India's IT Boom: Did State Governments Play a Role? [Published in World Trade Organization edited book Making Globalization More Inclusive: Lessons from experience with adjustment policies, 2019]