Publications

Mixed Method Modelling of Excess Mortality and COVID-19 Lockdowns in Thailand (with Anna de Padua Durante, Rutcher Lacaza, Pamela Lapitan, Elaine S. Tan, and Milan Thomas) Scientific Reports, 2024. 

Do Marriage Markets Respond to a Natural Disaster? The Impact of Flooding of the Kosi River in India (with Madhulika Khanna) Journal of Population Economics, 2023. 

Presentations: GCER Conference (2019),  Sustainability and Development Conference  (2019), Midwest International Economic Development Conference (2020), Midwest Economic Association (2020); SEA 2020; SEHO 2021

Media Coverage: India in Transition blog (CASI, UPenn), The Print 

Other versions:  SSRN eJournal 

A Retrospective Impact Evaluation of the Tamil Nadu Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation (Pudhu Vaazhvu) Project (with Madhulika Khanna and Nethra Palaniswamy), The Journal of Development Studies, 2015, Volume 51, Issue 9, pages 1210-1223.

Presentations: Delhi School of Economics (2014)

Fractal Inequality in Rural India: Class, Caste and Jati in Bihar (with Shareen Joshi and Vijayendra Rao) Oxford Open Economics, 2022. 

Other versions: Jati Inequality in Rural Bihar, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 8512

Media Coverage: Livemint, Hindustan Times, The Print

Presentations:  GW-SAGE (2019), ISI-Delhi (2017); Presented by co-author:  Delhi School of Economics (2017), Mortara seminar, Georgetown (2017)

Working Papers

Drought Resilience and Vulnerability to Poverty in Afghanistan (with Erwin Knippenberg) World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 10272, 2023

Are Caste Categories Misleading? The Relationship Between Gender And Jati In Three Indian States (with Shareen Joshi and Vijayendra Rao) WIDER Working Paper 2017/132

Other versions: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 8109

Media Coverage: The Print, Financial Express

Presented by co-author: UNU-WIDER Workshop, Helsinki (2017),  12th Annual ISI Winter Conference (2016)

Political Reservations as Term Limits: Evidence from India (with Caitlin Brown and Garance Genicot) Georgetown Working Paper [link to the paper]

Presentations: EGSO, Georgetown (2018), NEUDC (2021)

Book Chapters

Are Caste Categories Misleading? The Relationship Between Gender And Jati In Three Indian States (with Shareen Joshi and Vijayendra Rao). In Towards Gender Equity in Development, edited by Siwan Anderson, Beaman, Lori, and Platteau, Jean-Philippe, Oxford University Press, 2018. [link to the book]