Working Papers
Automation Threat and Labor Market Power
Dyson Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Cornell University
Alcohol Consumption and Intimate Partner Violence: Long-Term Effects of a Temporary Alcohol Ban (with Arnab K. Basu and Nancy H. Chau)
[Under Review] [Online Appendix] [RFBerlin WP] [IZA WP] [TEP WP]
Artisanal Mining and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (with Anh Nguyen)
[Submitted] [Online Appendix] [SSRN]
Public Works Program, Labor Supply, and Monopsony (with Nancy H. Chau and Vidhya Soundararajan)
Selected Work in Progress
Capital Market Integration, Labor Market Distortion, and Labor Misallocation (with Nancy H. Chau, Anh Nguyen and Vidhya Soundararajan)
Services Liberalization, Monopsony, and Gender (with Anh Nguyen)
Gold Mining, Child Labor, and Education (with Anh Nguyen)
The Effects of Extreme Heat on Gender Gap in Labor Supply (with Avralt-Od Purevjav and William Seitz)
Published Papers
Cooking Fuel Choice and Child Mortality in India (with Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau and Neha Khanna)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024.
[Slides] [Ungated Version] [Online Appendix] [IZA WP]
Featured in Cornell Chronicle, The Hindu, The Times of India, Times Now, Press Trust of India, Medical Xpress
George F. Warren Award for Outstanding Paper, Cornell University
Discussions
Global Labor Market Power (by Francesco Amodio, Emanuele Brancati, Peter Brummund, Nicolas de Roux and Michele Di Maio) [Slides]
NEUDC Conference at Northeastern University, 2024
Family Planning and the Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Urban Malawi (by Mahesh Karra, Daniel Maggio and David Canning) [Slides] [Details]
MWIEDC Conference at the University of Houston, 2023
Policy Work
Leveraging Geospatial Techniques and Publicly Available Datasets to Develop a Cost-Effective, Digitized National Sampling Frame: A Case Study of Armenia (with Saida Ismailakhunova, Avralt-Od Purevjav and Sarchil Qader)
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2026.
[Slides] [Poster] [Ungated Version] [WBPR WP]
Featured in Devdiscourse
Summary of the application to the Listening to Armenia baseline survey
Listening to Georgia and Armenia: Baseline and Phone Surveys and Analyses (with Saida Ismailakhunova, Avralt-Od Purevjav and others)
Poverty and Equity Assessment for Georgia (with Saida Ismailakhunova and others)
Distributional Impact of Energy Tariff Reforms in the Republic of Georgia (with Saida Ismailakhunova, Avralt-Od Purevjav and Juan Carlos Palacios Mora)
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