Publications (peer reviewed)
Journal Articles
Missing’ Women in Economics Academia in India (with Ambrish Dongre and Upasak Das)
Feminist Economics, 2024
Media/ Coverage: Ideas for India (co-authored), The Hindu BusinessLine (co-authored), Ahmedabad Mirror
What money couldn't buy: Social Protection for Migrants in India's lockdown (with Advaita Rajendra and Ankur Sarin)
Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 2023
Solving It Correctly: Prevalence and Persistence of Gender Gap in Basic Mathematics in Rural India (with Upasak Das)
International Journal of Educational Development, 2023
Media/ Coverage: Ideas for India (co-authored), The Hindu (co-authored), Indian Express, Careers 360, The Ken, Soch by Mohak Mangal (Youtube), Tagesspiegel
Barriers in Translating Mandate for Inclusion in Practice: Evidence from India’s Right to Education Act (with Ambrish Dongre and Ankur Sarin)
International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2022
Revisiting the Role of Private Schooling on Children Learning Outcomes: Evidence from Rural India (with Upasak Das)
South Asia Economic Journal, 2019
Book chapters and other articles
Inequality in Economics as a Profession (with Eva Sierminska)
Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2025
Media/Coverage: IZA Newsroom
Does it pay to be beautiful? (with Eva Sierminska)
IZA World of Labor, 2023
Media/ Coverage: New York Times, Les Echos, Le Point, Yahoo Finance, InFranken
Working Papers and others
Refugee Absorption and Electoral Change: Evidence from the Indian Partition (with Adrij Chakraborty)
Place-Based Initiatives and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from India’s Aspirational Districts Programme (with Parul Gupta and Upasak Das)
SSRN, 2026 (Reject and Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics)
Media/ Coverage: Ideas for India (co-authored); The Print
Breaking the Night Barrier: Night-Shift Reforms and Women's Work in India (with Nisha Vernekar)
CINCH Working Paper Series, 2026
Media/ Coverage: Ideas for India (co-authored)
Dissecting the Gender Gap in Intergenerational Transfers: The Case of Germany (with Markus Grabka and Eva Sierminska)
IZA Discussion Paper, 2026
Who Studies What? Country of Origin, Gender, and Field Specialization Among Economics PhDs (with Eva Sierminska)
IZA Discussion Paper, 2025
Women in Indian Economics Academia
International Economics Association, 2025
Media/ Coverage: VoxDev, UNU Merit
Work in progress
Who Gets It Right? Subjective Job-Loss Expectations and Subsequent Displacement (with Anthony Lepentieur, Andrew Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio)
Path Dependence and Field Choices in Economics (with Eva Sierminska)
Resting Papers
Can a Mandate for Inclusion Change School Choices for Disadvantaged Parents? – Evidence from Urban India (with Ambrish Dongre and Ankur Sarin)
Media/ Coverage: Ideas for India (co-authored); HT Mint
Parental Engagement in Early Childhood Education During COVID-19 (with Pooja Pandey and Nisha Vernekar)
Media/ Coverage: The Hindu (co-authored), Ideas for India (co-authored)
Policy Reports, Briefs, and Other Materials
Cracking the Credit Code: Alternative Data and AI for Financial Inclusion
International Finance Corporation, 2026
Media/Coverage: Global SME Finance Forum (Johannesburg 2025), SME Finance Forum Marketplace (2026), IFC/World Bank Group Gender Network, East African Business Times (2026), Pulse (BFC) (2026)
World Bank, 2024
Clearing the Air: A Synthesised Mapping of Out of School Children during COVID-19 in India
Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, 2022
Media/ Coverage: Podcast - "Decoding Exclusion" (co-conceptualized), Live Mint (co-authored), The Print, Business Standard, Deccan Herald
Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, 2021
Media/ Coverage: The Hindu (co-authored), Ideas for India (co-authored), Indian Express, The Times of India, The Ken
Analysing Discretionary Expenditure of Municipal Councillors
IIM Ahmedabad and UNICEF, 2021
Situation analysis on Anganwadi workers in Gujarat during COVID-19 (dipstick assessment)
IIM Ahmedabad and UNICEF, 2021
Democratic Responsiveness in Urban Governance: COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond (Seminar and policy brief)
IIM Ahmedabad and UNICEF, 2020
Rapid Survey to assess the needs and circumstances of low-income households in Ahmedabad during COVID-19
IIM Ahmedabad, 2020
Media/ Coverage: Indian Express, The Print, The Times of India, Deccan Herald, Careers360, Rajasthan Patrika, Scroll, Business Insider, Business Standard, The Week, Financial Express, Outlook, News18, Money Control, India Today
Access to learning experiences for children from low-income households during COVID-19 school closures: Case of Ahmedabad (rapid survey)
IIM Ahmedabad and UNICEF, 2020
Media/ Coverage: The Independent, NDTV, The Times of India, Indian Express (+ follow-up 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), Gujarat Samachar, Patrika, TV9, LiveLaw, Bar and Bench
Voluntary Sector Response to Food Scarcity during COVID-19 (rapid survey of 100+ organisations)
IIM Ahmedabad, 2020
Media/ Coverage: Indian Express, The Times of India, Outlook, Down to Earth, Patrika
Civil Society Leaders Perceptions and Experiences during COVID-19 (survey of over 65+ leaders)
IIM Ahmedabad, 2020
Media/ Coverage: The Times of India, Ahmedabad Mirror, Deccan Herald, Outlook, The Print
Social Protection Schemes for Children in Urban Gujarat
IIM Ahmedabad and UNICEF, 2020
Handbook for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Councillors: Handy Dossier for City Representatives
IIM Ahmedabad and UNICEF, 2020
Media/ Coverage: Indian Express
City and ward-level profiles on health, education and basic infrastructural amenities
IIM Ahmedabad and UNICEF, 2019
Prioritizing Child Welfare in Urban Local Bodies in India (Seminar and policy brief)
IIM Ahmedabad and UNICEF, 2019
Making First 1000 days count for all children (Seminar and policy brief)
IIM Ahmedabad and UNICEF, 2019
On the Implementation of Vidya Lakshmi Yojna in Gujarat: Field-based insights from Ahmedabad
IIM Ahmedabad and UNICEF, 2018
Media/ Coverage: Indian Express (quoted), Indian Express (part-2)
State of the Nation 2017: Right To Education Act Section 12(1)(c) (two chapters in the report)
Central Square Foundation and IIM Ahmedabad, 2017
Conferences and Seminars
2027: American Economic Association (ASSA Annual Meetings, Washington DC) (scheduled)
2026: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta*; RIWI Labour Day (Essen)*; World Inequality Conference (Paris School of Economics)*; Asian Economic Development Conference (ADB/HKUST, Hong Kong)*; IEA World Congress (Belgrade, Serbia)*'; Monash Business School Sustainable Development Conference*; XXI International Conference on Public Policy and Management (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)*; Jobs and Development Conference (World Bank, UNU WIDER, HKUST)
2025: Bank of Estonia*, Munich International Stone Centre for Inequality Research*; Polish Academy of Science (invited); CSSS Kolkata (India)*; Ahmedabad University (India); Delhi School of Economics (India)*; 20th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development (ISI Delhi, India)*; LISER Working Group (Luxembourg)
2024: ASSA 2024 Annual Meeting, AEA (San Antonio, Texas); Association for Social Economics World Congress (UMass Boston)
2023: Income and wealth inequality: drivers and consequences (Gdansk Univerity of Technology); FLAME University, Pune (India) (Invited); LISER Working Group (Luxembourg)
2022: International Association for Research on Income and Wealth (IARIW) General Conference (STATEC, Luxembourg)*, International Conference on Sustainable Development (University of Michigan)*, XVII International Conference on Public Policy and Management (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)*
2021: Annual Conference on Economics and Public Policy (OP Jindal University, India); 6th International Conference on South Asian Economic Development (South Asian University, New Delhi)*; Dvara Research (India (Online), Invited), NCAER (India) (Invited)*
2020: Papers in Public Economics and Policy (PPEP) (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy)
2019: Eighth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) (Paris School of Economics); 5th International Conference on South Asian Economic Development (South Asian University, New Delhi); 9th Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Social Science Institutions (National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad); Vietnam Economists Annual Meeting (Da Lat University); 10th Annual International Conference of Comparative Education Society of India (JNU, New Delhi)
2018: 14th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development (ISI Delhi); XXVIIIth Annual General Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)*; XIII International Conference on Public Policy and Management (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore); International Seminar on Quality and Excellence in Higher Education (New Delhi)*; Takshashila Institution, Bangalore (invited)
2017: 3rd International Conference on South Asian Economic Development (South Asian University, New Delhi); 13th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development (ISI Delhi); Winter School, Delhi School of Economics (New Delhi); Gender and Education Association annual conference (Middlesex University, London)*; XII International Conference on Public Policy and Management (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore); 3rd International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP) (National University of Singapore); National Conference on Applied Economics and Finance (The Indian Econometric Society and IMERT Pune); IARIW-ICRIER Conference on “Experiences and Challenges in Measuring Income, Inequality, and Poverty in South Asia (New Delhi, India)
2016: 12th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development (ISI Delhi)
Other activity (refereeing, grants, etc.)
Refereeing
Educational Research, Education Economics, Economista, KU Leuven (valorization expert), Review of Economics of the Household, Economics of Education Review, BMC Public Health, PLOS One
Research Grants
2023: International Economics Association - Women in Economics initiative ($20,000) (Co-PI with Upasak Das and Ambrish Dongre): https://iea-world.org/evidence-papers-on-women-in-economics/
Grants and fellowships received for conference papers and workshops
2026: Monash Business School Sustainable Development Conference (Prato, Italy)*; 2024: Association for Social Economics (ASE) - Ingrid Rima fellowship (Boston); 2022: International Association for Research on Income and Wealth (IARIW) general conference (STATEC, Luxembourg); 2020: Papers in Public Economics and Policy (PPEP) (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy) (New Delhi)
2019: Eighth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) (PSE, Paris); Vietnam Economists Annual Meeting (Da Lat University, Vietnam); 2018: Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet) Conference (Benin) (not undertaken); 14th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development (ISI Delhi); Kerala Migration Survey training programme "Methods and Approaches to Research on Migration" (CDS, Trivandrum); 2017: Winter School, Delhi School of Economics (DSE, New Delhi); International Conference on South Asian Economic Development (South Asian University, New Delhi); IARIW-ICRIER Conference on “Experiences and Challenges in Measuring Income, Inequality, and Poverty in South Asia (New Delhi); Lee Kuan Yew grant for Asian scholars at the International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP) (NUS, Singapore); 2016: 12th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development (ISI Delhi); 2015: CAFRAL – IGIDR Winter School in Economics and Finance (IGIDR Mumbai)
*co-author
Past fellowships
2014-2017: Summer School for Future Leaders in Development fellowship (IIM Udaipur and Duke University) (not undertaken); Legislative Assistants to Members of Parliament (LAMP) fellowship (not undertaken); Gandhi Fellowship (not undertaken)