You Get What You Pay For: Electricity Quality and Firm Response
Forthcoming at Economic Development and Cultural Change
Women Leaders Improve Environmental Outcomes, with Maulik Jagnani
Journal of Public Economics, 2025, Volume 248, 105443
VoxDev, Ideas for India
The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity
American Economic Review, 2024, 114 (10), 3314-3344
Hindustan Times, Live Mint, World Bank Impact Blog, Ideas for India VoxDev
The Political Consequences of Resource Scarcity: Targeted Spending in a Water-Stressed Democracy, with Ajay Shenoy
Journal of Public Economics, 2023, Volume 220, 104842
VoxDev
Reducing Information Barriers to Solar Adoption: Experimental Evidence from India, with Robyn Meeks and Takashi Yamano
Energy Economics, 2023, Volume 120, 106600
Ideas for India (Hindi version)
Behavioral Dynamics in Transitions from College to the Workforce, with Catalina Franco,
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, Volume 188, Pages 567-590
On the Back Burner: Experimental Evidence on Energy Transitions (with Ryan McCord, Robyn Meeks, Manisha Pradhananga, Adrian Martinez)
Growing Pains: Infrastructure Upgrades for Energy Transitions (with Ryan McCord, Robyn Meeks, Manisha Pradhananga)
Urban Thirst and Rural Distortions: Groundwater Markets and Agricultural Misallocation (with Saloni Taneja and Lisa Tarquinio)
Who gets the last drop? Groundwater Extraction, Tanker Markets, and Welfare in Developing Cities (with Saloni Taneja and Lisa Tarquinio)
The Politics of Thirst: Urban Water Demand and Inter-State Water Allocation (with Saloni Taneja and Lisa Tarquinio)
Urban Thirst, Rural Consequences: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Water Scarcity (with Saloni Taneja and Lisa Tarquinio)
Long-term Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture (with Shweta Bhogale, Maulik Jagnani and Kibrom Tafere)
Political Misallocation of Electricity and Firm Outcomes (Ajay Shenoy and Bhavyaa Sharma)
Electricity Infrastructure, VoxDevLit 2025, 15(1), with Robyn Meeks.
Power, politics, and welfare: The cost of corruption in Indian electricity, VoxDev (2024).
Women as policymakers: Evidence from a randomised policy experiment in India, VoxDev (2023), with Maulik Jagnani.
Do women leaders improve environmental outcomes? Evidence from crop fires in India, Ideas for India (2023).
Reducing information barriers to solar adoption: Experimental evidence from India, Ideas for India (2022), with Robyn Meeks and Takashi Yamano.
Out of power? Political capture of the Indian electricity sector, Ideas for India (2019).
Dimmed Lights: The Financial Toll of Political Interference in Indian Electricity, Energy for Growth Hub (2024).
Five Low-hanging Fruits in Indian Electricity, Energy for Growth Hub (2021).
Raising Global Energy Ambitions: The 1000 KWh Modern Energy Minimum, The Energy for Growth Hub (2021), with Todd Moss, Morgan Bazilian, Moussa Blimpo, Lauren Culver, Jacob Kincer, Vijay Modi, Rose Mutiso, Varun Sivaram, Jay Taneja, Mark Thurber, Johannes Urpelainen, Michael Webber, Bob Muhwezi
Seeing is Believing: Poverty in the Palestinian Territories, World Bank (2014), with Tara Vishwanath, Brian Blankespoor, Faythe Calandra, Nandini Krishnan and Nobuo Yoshida
Poverty Mapping in the Kyrgyz Republic: Methodology and Key Findings, Working Paper 76690, World Bank (2013), with Nobuo Yoshida and Larisa Praslova
Understanding Seasonal Extreme Poverty in the Northwestern Region of Bangladesh, Vol. 2: The Extent of Seasonal Deprivation and Informal/Formal Coping Mechanisms, World Bank (2012), with Shinya Takamatsu and Nobuo Yoshida