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About Me
My research focuses on microeconomic topics in environmental health and human capital in lower-income countries.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Fletcher School and Department of Economics at Tufts University. I previously held appointments as tenure-track faculty in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Denver and a postdoctoral fellow at Yale's Economic Growth Center (EGC). I have a PhD in Applied Economics from the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University.
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Name pronunciation: Mollick Jugnaani
Working Papers
Working Papers
2) High Returns, Low Adoption: Air Purifiers in Bangladeshi Firms with Teevrat Garg and Nancy Lozano-Garcia.
Coverage: World Bank, Climate Smart
1) Residential Air Purifiers with Ashfaqul Chowdhury, Teevrat Garg, and Martin Mattsson.
Old Version: Misbeliefs, Experience, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Air Purifiers in Bangladesh
(Pre-analysis plan accepted at the Journal of Development Economics via Pre-Results Review.)
Coverage: Climate Smart, VoxDev (2024), The Business Standard (11/24), The Business Standard (12/24), VoxDev (2025), IGC Blog
Selected Work in Progress
Selected Work in Progress
1) Experimental Evaluation of a Flood Early Warning System with Rohini Pande.
Coverage: Yale EGC (2020), Yale EGC (2023), Google Blog, Medium, SSIR
2) Incentive Design for Behavior Change: Experimental Evidence from an Advisory Service for Indian Farmers with Jagori Chatterjee, Shawn Cole, and Tomoko Harigaya.
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
9) Heat and Team Production: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
The Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming.
Teevrat Garg, Maulik Jagnani, and Elizabeth Lyons
Coverage: VoxDev
8) Breadwinner’s Burden: The Effect of Financial Concerns on Sleeplessness
American Economic Review: Insights, Forthcoming.
Claire Duquennois and Maulik Jagnani
Coverage: PNAS - Front Matter, VoxDev
7) Women Leaders Improve Environmental Outcomes: Evidence from Crop Fires in India
Journal of Public Economics, Volume 248, August 2025.
Maulik Jagnani and Meera Mahadevan. Appendix.
Coverage: IGC - Ideas for India, IGC Blog, VoxDev
6) Not Playing Favorites: Parents and the Value of Equal Opportunity
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025.
Jim Berry, Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Maulik Jagnani. Supplementary Materials.
Coverage: Chicago Booth Review
5) Rural Roads, Farm Labor Exits, and Crop Fires
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2024.
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, July 2024.
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, PNAS - Front Matter, VoxDev
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
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.
eClinicalMedicine, November 2022.
Jenna Allard, Maulik Jagnani, Yusuf Neggers, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner, and Charity Troyer Moore.
Coverage: Mashable
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