Maulik Jagnani

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Fletcher School and Department of Economics at Tufts University. 

My research focuses on microeconomic topics in environmental health and human capital in lower-income countries. 

CV | Google Scholar | maulik.jagnani@tufts.edu

Name pronunciation: Mollick Jugnaani

Selected Work in Progress

1) Heat and Team Production: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh with Teevrat Garg and Elizabeth Lyons.

2) Willingness to Pay for Defensive Investments in High Air Pollution Cities with Teevrat Garg and Nancy Lozano Garcia.

Coverage: World Bank, Climate Smart

3) Forecasting Fate: Experimental Evaluation of a Flood Early Warning System with Rohini Pande.

Coverage: Yale EGC (2020), Yale EGC (2023), Google Blog, Medium

4) Adoption, Use, and Effects of Air Purifiers in Households with Ashfaqul Chowdhury, Teevrat Garg, and Martin Mattsson.

Accepted, Journal of Development Economics Pre-Results Review

Coverage: Climate Smart

Selected Publications

6) Not Playing Favorites: Parents and the Value of Equal Opportunity 

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Forthcoming.

Jim Berry, Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Maulik Jagnani

Coverage: Chicago Booth Review

5) Rural Roads, Farm Labor Exits, and Crop Fires

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Forthcoming.

Teevrat Garg, Maulik Jagnani, and Hemant Pullabhotla. Appendix.

Coverage: World Bank, IGC - Ideas for India, VoxDev

4) Children's Sleep and Human Capital Production 

The Review of Economics and Statistics. Forthcoming. 

Maulik Jagnani. Appendix.  

Coverage: BBC News, Quartz, Marginal Revolution, WIRED, IGC - Ideas for India, Der Standard, World Bank, Business Insider, Live Mint, IndiaSpend, Bloomberg, Business Standard, Nada es Gratis, The Times of India, GlobalDev Blog, The New York Times, CNN

3) Within-Season Producer Response to Warmer Temperatures: Defensive Investments by Kenyan Farmers 

The Economic Journal, January 2021. 

Maulik Jagnani, Chris Barrett, Yanyan Liu, and Liangzhi You. Appendix. 

2) Temperature and Human Capital in India  

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, November 2020. 

Teevrat Garg, Maulik Jagnani, and Vis Taraz. Appendix.

Coverage: IGC - Ideas for India Blog

1) The Effects of Elite Public Colleges on Primary and Secondary Schooling Markets in India 

Journal of Development Economics, September 2020. 

Maulik Jagnani and Gaurav Khanna. Appendix. 

Additional Peer-Reviewed Publications

2) Changes in Children's Time Use, India 1998-2019

Research in Labor Economics, December 2023.

Matthew Gibson, Maulik Jagnani and Hemant Pullabhotla. 

1) Indian Female Migrants Face Greater Barriers to Post-Covid Recovery than Males: Evidence from a Panel Study

eClinicalMedicine, November 2022. 

Jenna Allard, Maulik Jagnani, Yusuf Neggers, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner, and Charity Troyer Moore.

Coverage: Mashable