The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity
American Economic Review, 2024, 114 (10), 3314-3344
Featured in: 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
Featured in: VoxDev
Reducing Information Barriers to Solar Adoption: Experimental Evidence from India, with Robyn Meeks and Takashi Yamano
Energy Economics, 2023, Volume 120, 106600
Featured in: 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
Women Leaders Improve Environmental Outcomes, with Maulik Jagnani
Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Public Economics
VoxDev, Ideas for India
You Get What You Pay For: Electricity Quality and Firm Response
Revise and Resubmit at Economic Development and Cultural Change
An Experiment on the Demand for Electric Cooking: Evidence from Nepal (with Ryan McCord, Robyn Meeks, Manisha Pradhananga)
Understanding the Effects of Infrastructure Upgrades on Household Behavior and Utility Revenue: Evidence from Smart Meters in Nepal (with Ryan McCord, Robyn Meeks, Manisha Pradhananga)
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)
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