Research
Published, Forthcoming and Accepted Papers
"Learning to Navigate a New Financial Technology: Evidence from Payroll Accounts"
with Martin Kanz and Leora Klapper. Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Finance.
with Marcella Alsan, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, Abhijit Chowdhury, Esther Duflo, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Benjamin Olken. Conditionally Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics.
"When Less is More: Experimental Evidence on Information Delivery during India's Demonetization"
with Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, and Ben Golub. Review of Economic Studies, 2024.
"Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets"
with Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, Matthew Jackson, Cynthia Kinnan. Review of Economic Studies, 2024.
"Consistently Estimating Network Statistics using Aggregated Relational Data"
with Arun Chandrasekhar, Shane Lubold, Tyler McCormick, and Mengjie Pan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023.
“Naïve Learning with Uninformed Agents”
with Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, and Markus Mobius. American Economic Review, 2021.
with Supreet Kaur and Yogita Shamdasani. American Economic Review, 2021.
(first author) with Fatima Cody Stanford, Marcella Alsan, Burak Alsan, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Sarah Eichmeyer, Traci Glushko, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Kelly Holland, Emily Hoppe, Mohit Karnani, Sarah Liegl, Tristan Loisel, Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Benjamin A. Olken, Carlos Torres, Pierre-Luc Vautrey, Erica Warner, Susan Wootton & Esther Duflo. Nature Medicine, 2021.
"Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis"
with Cynthia Kinnan. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021.
with Carlos Torres, Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Marcella Alsan, Fatima Cody Stanford, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, Sarah Eichmeyer, Mohit Karnani, Tritan Loisel, PaulGoldsmith-Pinkham, Benjamin Olken, Pierre-Luc Vautrey, Erica Warner, and Esther Duflo. JAMA Network Open, 2021.
with Marcella Alsan, Fatima Cody Stanford, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, Sarah Eichmeyer, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Benjamin Olken, Anirudh Sankar, Carlos Torres, Pierre-Luc Vautrey, and Esther Duflo. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2020.
"Using Aggregated Relational Data to Feasibly Identify Network Structure without Network Data"
with Arun Chandrasekhar, Tyler McCormick, and Mengjie Pan. American Economic Review, 2020. (implementation cookbook and survey instruments) (estimation pseudocode) (estimation code).
"Social Networks, Reputation, and Commitment: Evidence from a Savings Monitors Field Experiment"
with Arun Chandrasekhar. Econometrica, 2019.
"The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality"
with Supreet Kaur and Yogita Shamdasani. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018.
“The Labor Market Effects of Credit Market Information”
with Marieke Bos and Andres Liberman. Review of Financial Studies, 2018.
Editor's Choice. Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award in the Review of Financial Studies, 2018.
"Financial Contracting and Organizational Form: Evidence from the Regulation of Trade Credit"
with Andres Liberman. Journal of Finance, 2017.
Brattle Group First Prize Paper on Corporate Finance in the Journal of Finance 2017, Charles River Associates Award for Best Paper on Corporate Finance, WFA 2015.
Non-Peer Reviewed Publications and Book Chapters
with Lisa Y. Ho, Marcella Alsan, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Fatima Cody Stanford, Renato Fior, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Kelly Holland, Emily Hoppe, Louis-Maël Jean, Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Benjamin A. Olken, Carlos Torres, Pierre-Luc Vautrey, Erica Warner, and Esther Duflo. Forthcoming AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023.
"End COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries"
with Mushfiq Mobarak, Edward Miguel, Jason Abaluck, A. Ahuja, Marcella Alsan, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, J. Dzansi, D. Garrett, and others. Science, 2022.
“Networks in Economic Development”
with Arun Chandrasekhar, Benjamin Golub and Aneesha Paravatheni. Networks and Economic Policy, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, eds. Matthew Elliott, Alexander Teytelboym and Yves Zenou, 2019.
"Workplace Signaling and Financial Commitment: Evidence from a Field Experiment"
with Martin Kanz and Leora Klapper. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018.
“Field Experiments, Social Networks, and Development”
Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, eds. Yann Bramoulle, Andrea Galeotti, and Brian Rogers, 2016.
Working Papers
“Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?”
with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Cynthia Kinnan.
"Coordination without Organization: Collective Labor Supply in Decentralized Spot Markets"
with Supreet Kaur and Nandita Krishnaswamy. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy.
“Network centrality and Institutional Design: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field"
with Arun Chandrasekhar and Horacio Larreguy. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Public Economics.
“Peer Effects and Loan Repayment: Evidence from the Krishna Default Crisis”
"Access to Credit and Productivity: Evidence from Thai Villages" (slides)
with Robert Townsend and Diego A. Vera-Cossio.
Selected Research in Progress
“The Nerds, the Cool and the Central: Peer Education and Teen Pregnancy in Brazil” with Erick Baumgartner, Eliana La Ferrara, Victor Orozco Olvera and Pedro Rosa Dias.
"Seeing the Forest for the Trees? An Investigation of Network Knowledge"
with Arun Chandrasekhar and Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi.
"Affirmative Action, Attitudes, and Social Networks: Evidence from Caste-Based Reservation in India"
with Arun Chandrasekhar and M.R. Sharan.