I am a policy researcher working at the intersection of development, gender, and family law. My research examines how institutions and interventions shape marriage markets, intra-household bargaining, and women and children's welfare.

Using insights from economics, political science, and psychology, I take an interdisciplinary approach to study the enforcement and impact of marriage and family laws—particularly in contexts where state regulations coexist with religious and customary legal systems. My work combines causal inference, field experiments, and large language models to explore complex questions related to child marriage, polygamy, and legal pluralism.

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy at Duke University and a James B. Duke Fellow. Before graduate school, I worked for over five years as a Research Associate at the American Institutes for Research, contributing to impact evaluations for the World Bank, the United Nations, and various governments across multiple policy areas.

You can reach me at kk404@duke.edu