Research 

Gender Norms and Motherhood Penalty: Experimental Evidence from India,  with Arjun Bedi and Matthias Rieger

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Gender norms and community origins shape the motherhood penalty in India, with mothers from matrilineal and Northeast communities facing less discrimination in the labor market. 

A previous version was circulated as IZA Discussion Paper No. 11360 

Relational Resilience: Does Employee Gender Composition Buffer Deposit Demand Irregularities?, with Abhiman Das. 

Female employee composition in bank branches helps stabilize deposits during localized economic shocks, offering a novel frontline employee channel to relational resilience. 

Government as Marketer: Policy-Driven Product Promotion and Labor Market Congestion, with Neeraj Katewa and Sangeeta Misra.

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A government-led product promotion policy in Uttar Pradesh, India triggers short-term wage declines due to migration-driven labor bottlenecks, revealing how demand-side policies can strain operational capacity, but yields long-term gains as markets adjust.  

Import Competition, Myopic Management, and Long-Term Implications: Evidence from Discretionary Marketing Investments.

Rising import competition pressures US manufacturing firms to prioritize short-term gains through myopic management, buffering short-term stock market performance but risking long- term market power and competitiveness. 

Does Market Power Breed Inefficiency? Evidence from Firm-Level Inventory Dynamics,  with Anisha Shukla.

When competition vanishes, managers relax: Market power breeds operational slack, causing firms with high markups to exhibit slower inventory turnover, with this inefficiency being amplified by weak corporate governance structures and poor CEO incentives.  

When the Bullet Hits the Chain: The Ripple Effects of Sentimental Shocks on Supply Chains, with Adityava Mazumder 

Does Signaling Childcare Support on Job Applications Reduce the Motherhood Penalty?, with Arjun Bedi and Matthias Rieger, 2022, Review of Economics of the Household, 20(2), 373-387. Replication Files

Signaling access to childcare support on CVs reduces the motherhood penalty in India's labor market, highlighting the potential for support policies to mitigate gender-based employment discrimination.