With the support of my Dobe Alia...
My research focuses on latent traits and persistence of social norms.
Publications:
The Early Origins of Judicial Stringency in Bail Decisions: Evidence from Early Childhood Exposure to Hindu-Muslim Riots in India (with Nitin Bharti) Journal of Public Economics, vol 221, May 2023
Media Coverage: Economic & Political WeeklyThe Impact of Long-Term Orientation Traits on Pandemic Fatigue Behavior: Evidence from the Columbian Exchange (with Sudhir Gupta, Rabee Tourky) Journal of Economic Growth, vol 28, pages 397-438 (2023)
Working Papers:
Structural Econometrics with Applications in Labor, Public and Behavioral Economics:
Productivity Versus Motivation in Adolescent Human Capital Production: Evidence from a Structurally-Motivated Field Experiment (with John A. List, Brent Hickman, Chris Cotton and Joe Price) Revise and Resubmit (2nd Round) Journal of Political Economy
Spillover Designs:
Countervailing Effects of Preferential Incentives on Learning Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in India Revised and Resubmitted Journal of Political Economy: Micro
Economic History:
Impact of British Colonial Gender Reform on Marriage under Legal Age and Gender Gap in Education: Evidence from Child Marriage Abolition Act, 1929 (with Hiu F. Tam) Revise and Resubmit (2nd Round) Journal of Economic History
Statistics of Persistence of Long-Term Effects and Distributional Impacts:
Concentration of Randomized Functions of Uniformly Bounded Variation (with Thomas Anton and Rabee Tourky) Revised draft will be uploaded soon!!
Other Publications:
The Effect of Teaching Economics with Classroom Experiments: Estimates from a Within-Subject Experiment (with Jeffrey Livingston and Sacha Gelfer) American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings (2022, vol 112, pp. 619-23.)