Research
Research
Digital Progress and Trends Report (Upcoming, 2025): Lead author of “Digital Trends” and “Digital Skills” chapters.
Service Unbound: Digital Technologies and Policy Reform in East Asia and Pacific (2024): Contributed analysis on internet disparity before and after COVID-19 in the EAP region.
Digital Progress and Trends Report (2023): Co-authored the chapter “Artificial Intelligence: Revolutionary Potential and Huge Uncertainties”.
India Country Economic Memorandum - Becoming a High-Income Economy in a Generation (2024): Contributed analysis on India's firm-level productivity, and women labor force participation rate.
Walmart’s Global Sourcing Program: Trade and Employment Implications for India (2020): Led primary research on supplier-level outcomes; conducted secondary analysis of retail FDI, employment trends, and export performance linked to global sourcing.
Evaluation of the IFLADP Scheme (2020): Contributed employment diagnostics for assessing labor impacts under the Indian Footwear and Leather Development Programme.
Evaluation of the Scheme for Investment Promotion under the REEIS Framework (2020): Assessed outreach effectiveness and sectoral targeting of India’s investment promotion activities, with a focus on employment and investment linkages.
Employment Diagnostics in Labor-Intensive Indian Manufacturing Sector: Implication on Exports (2019): Lead sector-level analysis on employment trends, trade exposure, and labor market constraints in post-liberalization India.
India’s Imports from China: An Analysis of Impact on Indian Manufacturing Sector (2019): Contributed sector-level analysis on import competition, capacity utilization, and substitution potential in labor-intensive industries using RCA and unit labor cost metrics.
Assessing Import Tariffs and the State of Effective Rate of Protection in the Indian Aluminum Industry (2018): Analyzed tariff structures, employment intensity, and downstream sector linkages; assessed policy scenarios involving potential FTAs.
India’s Trade and Employment Linkages in Manufacturing (2018): Analyzed the relationship between export growth, capital intensity, and employment outcomes across organized and unorganized sectors, disaggregated by gender and firm size.
Impact of Free Trade Agreements on the Indian Copper Industry (2017): Examined RCA trends, trade flows, and employment patterns in India’s copper industry; contributed comparative analysis for FTA-related policy inputs.
Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) (2020): Conducted labor market impact assessments for South Africa and Azerbaijan in the context of COVID-19.
Evaluation Study of Trainers Effectiveness Program (2020): Analyzed national skill training survey to evaluate trainer effectiveness in India’s skill ecosystem.
“Public Safety for Women: Is Regulation of Social Drinking Spaces Effective?” Journal of Development Studies, 2021 — with Kanika Mahajan. [Access Here]
“Changes in Wages and Industry-Level Export Exposure: Implications for India’s Wage Inequality,” Empirical Economic Letters, 2025.
“Quantifying Trade’s Impact: Decomposing Wage Inequality Dynamics in Post-Liberalization India,” Empirical Economic Letters, 2025.
“Factor Endowments and the Structure of Indian Manufacturing,” The Indian Economic Journal, 2022 — with Anjali Tandon and Akash Pal.
“Role of Personal Friendship and Charisma in Foreign Relations,” Focus WTO-IB, Vol. 21(3), 2019.
“Evolution of Wage Inequality in India (1983–2017): The Role of Occupational Task Content,” Oxford University Press, 2023 — with Kanika Mahajan. [Access Here]
“India’s Industrial Performance: A Review of the Post-Independence Period,” in Routledge Handbook of the Indian Economy, 2023 — with Biswajit Nag and Ashima Puniani.
“India's Trade Sensitive Employment: A Comprehensive Firm-level Analysis,” in Lakhanpal et al. (Eds.), Trade, Investment and Economic Growth: Issues for India and Emerging Economies, 2020 — with Biswajit Nag.
“Do Minimum Wages Reduce Inequality in India?” Ideas for India, February 19, 2025 — with Kanika Mahajan and Kunal Sen. [Access Here]
“Creating Safe Public Spaces for Women and Alcohol Consumption in Bars,” Ideas for India, November 25, 2019 — with Kanika Mahajan. [Access Here]
“Changing the Status Quo on Sexual Assault,” Livemint, November 23, 2018 — with Kanika Mahajan. [Access Here]
Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Delhi, India — Annual Conference, December 18–21, 2022.
Delhi School of Economics & The Econometric Society, Delhi, India — Annual Conference, December 14–17, 2022.
Ambedkar University, Delhi, India — Research Seminar, November 2, 2018.
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi, India — Trade and Development Conference, December 13–14, 2018.
Journal of Development Economics – Manuscript reviewer
Modern Economy – Manuscript reviewer
“Is online job posting data useful in the context of developing countries?” — with Shu Yu, Hieu Duc Nguyen and Yan Liu.
“Click, Code, Earn: The Returns to Digital Skills” — with Yan Liu, Antonio Martins-Neto, and Juan Porras.
“Do Minimum Wages Reduce Inequality? Evidence from India” — with Kanika Mahajan and Kunal Sen. Ashoka University Discussion Paper No. 139. [Access Here]
“GVCs, Skill Bias, and Wage Inequality in India.” [Access Here]
“Understanding Productivity of Indian Firms” — with Pavel Chakraborty and Ruchita Manghnani.
“Employment Patterns in the Indian Manufacturing Sector” — with Pavel Chakraborty and Ruchita Manghnani.