Media Contributions

Weaving through generations: Productivity gains in family-owned businesses in rural India

Ideas for India, February 1, 2024 with Shreya Banerjee, Aastha Dang, Jane Hammaker, Chandan Jain, Divya Pandey and Fatema Patel.

• In Hindi translation

Economic consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns: Lessons from India’s first wave

Ideas for India, June 14, 2021 with Robert C. M. Beyer and Sonalika Sinha.

• Reprinted on Global Development Blog in English, French and Spanish

Fruits of liberation? Women’s work participation and adoption of household appliances

Ideas for India, May 28, 2021 with Gautam Bose and Sarah Walker.

• In Hindi translation

IIM Ahmedabad professor on the actual value of an MBA degree

InsideIIM, May 17, 2021.

The economic case for free vaccines

Ahmedabad Mirror, April 26, 2021.

Ideas for a better Budget: Women’s health, maternal leave and safety for economic growth

The Economic Times, January 8, 2021 with Mahima Vasishth.

State governments can be better armed financially to fight Covid-19 by issuing public health bonds

The Economic Times, June 5, 2020 with Maitreesh Ghatak.

Pooled testing to unlock economy

Telangana Today, June 3, 2020.

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Accelerated infection testing at scale: a proposal for inference with single test on multiple patients

IIMA Podcast, April 6, 2020.

How effective are RCTs that won Abhijit-Esther the Nobel

The Hindu, October 16, 2019.

Designing India's national healthcare protection: Challenges and opportunities

Ideas for India, August 27, 2018, with Sisir Debnath, Dibya Mishra and Revathy Suryanarayana.

Common tongue? How mother tongue instruction influences education 

Ideas for India, February 27, 2017, with Revathy Suryanarayana.

Hindi: जनभाषा? मातृभाषा में पढ़ाई शिक्षा को कैसे प्रभावित करती है, Ideas for India, June 12, 2019.

Public health insurance for tertiary diseases: Lessons from Andhra's Aarogyasri programme 

Ideas for India, April 12, 2016, with Sisir Debnath. 

Impact assessment: Data analysis for better decision making

ISB Insight, August 13, 2015. 

Do self-help programmes change hearts and minds? The JEEViKA experience in Bihar

ISB Insight, Jul-Sep 2015.

Tell us what you really think: Measuring gender attitudes in Haryana 

Ideas for India, July 18, 2014, with Diva Dhar and Seema Jayachandran.