With the support of my Dobe Alia...

My research focuses on using different econometric methods and econ theory to understand latent traits and persistence of social norms.

                                                   Publications:

Why Don't Struggling Students Do Their Homework? Disentangling Motivation and Study Productivity as Drivers of Human Capital Formation (with Chris Cotton, Brent Hickman, John List and Joe Price)    Accepted at the Journal of Political Economy, 2025 

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

The 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: 

Deep-Roots/Economic History:

Toward an Understanding of Persistence of Kinship Norms with Deep Historical Origins: Evidence using Multiple Experiments[New Paper!] presented at the Inequality Conference, Harris School of Public Policy, UChicago;  Experimental Economics Seminar, Dept. of Economics, Brown Uni;  next AFE,  UChicago

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)    WID WP    R and R  (2nd Round)   Journal of Economic History 

Structural Econometrics with Applications in Labor, Public and Behavioral Economics:

Judging Nudging: Toward an Understanding of the Welfare Effects of Nudges Versus Taxes, with  John A. List, Gregory Sun, and Matthias Rodemeier , NBER WP

Role of Risk and Ambiguity Preferences of Mothers on Early-Childhood Investment and Pre-K Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from Rural India with Michael Cuna, Lenka Fiala, Min Sok Lee, John A. List  NBER WP

Construct Validity and Testing Mechanisms:

Stated Preferences, Social Signaling, and Construct Validity: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural India with Michael Cuna, Lenka Fiala, Min Sok Lee, John A. List  (draft will be released soon)  presented at the Center for the Economics of Human Development and the Experimental Economics Seminars at the UChicago

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.)