Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships

• Asian Development Bank-International Economic Association Innovative Policy Research Award, 2024

• Doctoral Scholarship, Singapore Management University, 2016-2020

• Graduate Instructor Fellowship, Singapore Management University, 2019-2020

• Academic Award for Excellence in Macroeconomics, New York University, 2015

Conference, Seminar Presentations, and Invited Talks (*: presentation by collaborators)

• 2024: Indian Statistical Institute: Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development; Delhi School of Economics and the Econometric Society: Winter School*; National Law School of India University; Singapore Management University: Meeting of the Society of Economics of the Household

• 2023: Asian Development Bank. Meeting of the Asian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics; National Taiwan University: Asian and Australasian Society of Labor Economics; Nanyang Technological University: AMES South and South East Asia; Monash University: Sustainable Development for Thriving Communities*; Advances with Field Experiments Conference*; Kyoto University – Environmental Economics and Development Seminar*; Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore

• 2022: Cornell University. 100 Years of Economic Development; University of Aberdeen*; Australian Gender Economics Workshop*; University of Kent*; University of Michigan: Sustainable Development Conference*; Society of Economics of the Household*; University of Tokyo: Asian and Australasian Society of Labor Economics; Kobe University*; Asian Economic Development Conference*; Canadian Economic Association Conference*

• 2021: Indian Statistical Institute: Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development; Ahmedabad University: Amrut Mody School of Management; Singapore Management University: Virtual Applied Micro Workshop Series; Singapore Management University Alumni Talk: Road to Recovery and Development; Madras School of Economics; Southern Economic Association Conference*; Hitotsubashi University*; NUS-SMU Development Workshop*

• 2020: Singapore Management University: Seminar Series; KDIS-3ie-ADB-ADBI Conference on Impact Evaluation*

• 2019: Monash Business School: Conference on Randomized Controlled Trials; Yale University

• 2018: Imperial College: Annual London Business Research Conference

Research Grants

• Asian Development Bank. 2024-2026. (USD 175,000)

• Fund for Innovation in Development. 2024-2025. (EUR 199467.74)

• World Bank Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund. 2022-2023. "Covid-19 Recovery". (USD 400,000)

• The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). 2021-2022. “Education Research and Scale for COVID-19 Recovery” (USD 74,183.05)

Other Positions of Responsibility

• Mentor, Discover Research Program

• Secretary, Singapore Management University Graduate Research Alumni Chapter

• Postgraduate Representative, Singapore Management University Library Advisory Committee

• Supervised a student from National University of Singapore High School of Mathematics and Science on his research paper “Singapore Towards a Zero Waste Nation: Practices and Challenges”

Computer Skills

• STATA

• MATLAB

• EViews

• LaTeX

• SurveyCTO