Research

Research Statement

I am currently working on  Data analytics applications in economics with a special focus on education.  My broad research interests include Education Economics,  Econometrics, and Optimization.

Full Research Statement here.

Google Scholar Profile:

 https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=xajSeW0AAAAJ&hl=en  

Peer-reviewed Publications

• Voting for the Underdog or Jumping on the Bandwagon? Evidence from India's Exit Poll Ban (with  Dr. Somdeep Chatterjee)  Public Choice (Vol 188, pages 431–453, 2021)  [ABDC- A, ABS-3]

• Long-Term Labor Market Consequences of Costly Signaling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with  Dr. Somdeep Chatterjee) Journal of Human Capital (Vol 15 (4), 2021) [ABDC-A, ABS-3]

• Effect of R&D and Advertisement on the market value of the firm: evidence from Indian Firms (with Prof. Sanjay Kumar Singh) Vision: Journal of Business Perspective (Forthcoming)

• (En-) 'lightening' Children: Assessing the Impacts of Access to Electricity on Children's Achievement Levels (with  Dr. Somdeep Chatterjee and Shiv Hastawala) Review of Development Economics (Forthcoming)

Working Papers

• Effect of rural road infrastructure on educational outcomes 

• A strategic rural school-network rationalization problem: A case  (tentative title) (with  Dr. Jyotirmoy Dalal)

Work in progress

• Does Stock Market Lag Macroeconomic Variables: Evidence from Indian Stock Market?

• Social and Emotional Capital Accounting: An Introduction (Part of Inclusive Wealth Report 2023)

• Identifying Children at the Risk of Dropout: An early warning system

• Environmental Concern and Learning in Biodiversity course (with Shitanshu Mishra and Anurag Deep)

Conferences

• Annual Research Conference, Doctoral Workshop on Developing Resilient Organizations, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (May 30-31, 2021)

• Virtual International Conference on Soft Computing, Optimization Theory and Applications (SCOTA 2021), Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (March 26-27, 2021)

• 58th Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society, Savannah, Georgia, USA (March  12-13, 2021)

• American Economic Association (AEA) Annual Meetings, San Diego, California (January  3-5, 2020)

• 15th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi (December 18-20, 2019)

• XXVIIITH Annual Conference, Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata  (December 16-17, 2019)

• IGIDR PhD Colloquium (CoRe), IGIDR, Mumbai (November 5-8 ,2019)