Working papers
Female Leaders and Intrahousehold Dynamics: Evidence from State Elections in India - Revise and resubmit, AEJ: Economic Policy
with Bilge Erten and Priya Mukherjee
[World Bank PRWP No. 10113 | IZA DP No. 15395]
Can Effective Policy Implementation Alter Political Selection? Evidence From Female Legislators in India - submitted
with Rossella Calvi and Abhishek Chakravarty
[World Bank PRWP No. 10654 | IZA DP No. 16639]
Bring a Friend: Leveraging Financial and Peer Support to Improve Women's Reproductive Agency in India - submitted
with Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Mahesh Karra
[World Bank PRWP No. 10107 | IZA DP No. 15381]
Media coverage: World Bank Feature Story
with Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, Marina Elefante, Maria Montoya-Aguirre and, Alena Sakhonchik
Media coverage: The Economist
Publications
Journal Articles
Evaluating the Impacts of Training and Access to Digital Platforms on Female Domestic Workers in Bangladesh, Endline ongoing
with Maurizio Bussolo, Jean Lee, Siddharth Sharma, and Anaise Williams
Journal of Development Economics, Accepted (based on pre-results review)
with Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Sophie Ochmann
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 114: 243-47, 2024
Media coverage: Business Standard, Devdiscourse
with Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Mahesh Karra, and Rocio Valdebenito
AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022
with Sungoh Kwon and Nishith Prakash
Journal of Development Economics, 154, January 2022
Media coverage: BBC, Times of India, CNN, Huffington Post, The Conversation Global, The Print
with Sonia Bhalotra and Eddy HF Tam
The Economic Journal, 132 (641), January 2022
with Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Mahesh Karra, Praveen Pathak
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 102 (4), September 2020
Media coverage: The Economist, BBC, Live Mint, CNN News18, The Print, IndiaSpend, Scroll.in, Phys.org, World Bank Feature Story
with Todd J. Kumler
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 67 (3), April 2019
with Abhishek Chakravarty
Journal of Human Resources, 54 (1), Winter 2019
Media coverage: The Telegraph, Scroll.in, Live Mint, Ideas for India,The Hindu, DailyO, The Wire, The Cato Institute
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10 (2), April 2018
Media coverage: Live Mint, Hindu Business Line, Ideas for India, Harvard Magazine, India Spend, The Decision Lab
Other Publications
with Silvia Redaelli, Paola Sandra Buitrago Hernandez, and Tala Ismail
The 2nd State of the Mashreq Women Flagship Report, World Bank, March 2023
with Maurizio Bussolo and Ana Maria Munoz Boudet
South Asia Economic Focus, April 2022, The World Bank
Media coverage: The Hindu, The Print
with Shatanjaya Dasgupta
Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, July 2018
Policy Challenges from Demographic Change in China and India, Brookings Institution Press, July 2015
Work in progress
Breaking Job Search Barriers for Women: Experimental Evidence from Vocational Trainees in India, Endline complete
with Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Sophie Ochmann
Keeping Girls in School: Evaluating the Case Management System in Zambia, Intervention ongoing
with Kathleen Beegle
Revisiting the Curse of the Mummy- ji: Mothers-in-Law and Women’s Welfare, Baseline complete
with Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Mahesh Karra
Gender Gaps in Household Enterprises: Evidence from Indonesia
with Jennifer Golan and Josefina Posadas
Female Sterilization and Women's Well-being in India
[Slides]
Sex Ratios, Schooling, and the Marriage Market [Previous version]
Media coverage: Ideas for India, Harvard Magazine
Marriage Market Prospects and Female Labor Force Participation in India: A Qualitative Study
with Monica Biradavolu and Shubha Chakravarty
The Measurement and Evolution of Son Preference in India
with Sakshi Gupta, Nistha Sinha, and Yongkun Yin
Social Networks and Women's Economic Empowerment
with Thomas Gautier and Eeshani Kandpal
Gender-Based Violence and Empowerment of Adolescent Girls in Conflict-Affected Settings: Evidence from El Salvador
with Lelys Dinarte-Diaz and Iva Trako