Journal Articles

1. Female Leaders and Intrahousehold Dynamics: Evidence from State Elections in India

with Bilge Erten and Priya Mukherjee

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Conditionally accepted

2. Contraceptive Concordance

with Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Mahesh Karra, and Sarah Vincent

Studies in Family Planning, Forthcoming in the special issue on "Rethinking Family Planning Measurement with a Rights, Justice, and Person-Centered Lens" 

3. Filling the Gaps: Childcare Laws for Women's Economic Empowerment 

with Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, Maria Montoya-Aguirre, and Alena Sakhonchik

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

Media coverage: The Economist

4. Evaluating the Impacts of Training and Access to Digital Platforms on Female Domestic Workers in Bangladesh, Endline complete

with Maurizio Bussolo, Jean Lee, Siddharth Sharma, and Anaise Williams

Journal of Development Economics, Accepted (based on pre-results review)

5. The Influence of COVID-19 on Young Women's Labor Market Aspirations and Expectations in India

with Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Sophie Ochmann

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 114: 243-47, May 2024

Media coverage: Business Standard, Devdiscourse

6. Convincing the Mummy-ji: Improving Mother-in-Law Approval of Family Planning in India

with Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Mahesh Karra, and Rocio Valdebenito

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022 

[Online Appendix]

7. Saving for Dowry: Evidence from Rural India

with Sungoh Kwon and Nishith Prakash

Journal of Development Economics, 154, January 2022 

[Online Appendix] 

Media coverage: BBC, Times of India, CNN, Huffington Post, The Conversation Global, The Print

8. On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality

with Sonia Bhalotra and Eddy HF Tam

The Economic Journal, 132 (641), January 2022

[Online Appendix] 

9. Curse of the Mummy-ji: The Influence of Mothers-in-Law on Women in India

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

10. Women's Worth: Trade, Female Income, and Fertility in India

with Todd J. Kumler

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 67 (3), April 2019 

11. Democracy and Demography: Societal Effects of Fertility Limits on Local Leaders

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

12. Financial Incentives and the Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10 (2), April 2018 

[Online Appendix]

Media coverage: Live Mint, Hindu Business Line, Ideas for India, Harvard Magazine, India Spend, The Decision Lab

Other Publications

13. Who Cares? Care Work and Women's Labor Market Outcomes in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon

with Silvia Redaelli, Paola Sandra Buitrago Hernandez, and Tala Ismail

The 2nd State of the Mashreq Women Flagship Report, World Bank, March 2023

14. Reshaping Social Norms about Gender: A New Way Forward

with Maurizio Bussolo and Ana Maria Munoz Boudet 

South Asia Economic Focus, April 2022, The World Bank

Media coverage: The Hindu, The Print

15. Marriage Markets in Developing Countries

with Shatanjaya Dasgupta

Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, July 2018 

16. Economic Incentives and The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off

Policy Challenges from Demographic Change in China and India, Brookings Institution Press, July 2015