Research
Publications
“Effective Health Aid: Evidence from Gavi’s Vaccine Program” (with Dan Tortorice), Sept 2023, conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. (Online appendix)
“Reject or Revise: Gender Differences in Persistence and Publishing in Economics” (with Olga Shurchkov), Economic Inquiry 1–24. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13218. (Online appendix)
“The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease” (with Sheetal Sekhri), Aug 2023, forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
“Crowd-out in School-based Health Interventions: Evidence from India's Midday Meals Program” (with James Berry, Saurabh Mehta, Priya Mukherjee, and Hannah Ruebeck), Journal of Public Economics 204, 2021, 104552. (Online appendix)
Featured in VoxDev, September 2022
“Luck or Skill: How Women and Men Respond to Noisy Feedback” (with Olga Shurchkov and Lingjun Lotus Xia), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 88, 2020, 101592. (Online appendix)
“Implementation and Effects of India’s National School-based Iron Supplementation Program” (with James Berry, Saurabh Mehta, Priya Mukherjee, and Hannah Ruebeck), Journal of Development Economics 144(C), 2020, 102428. (Online appendix)
“Financial Education for Female Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore” (with Rashmi Barua and Dean Yang), Economics of Education Review 78, 2020, 101920. (Online appendix)
“Water Quality Awareness and Breastfeeding: Evidence of Health Behavior Change in Bangladesh” (with Pinar Keskin and Helen Willis), Review of Economics and Statistics 99(2), 2017, pp. 265-280. (Online appendix)
Featured in Ideas for India, July 2016
“High School Curriculum and Financial Outcomes: The Impact of Mandated Personal Finance and Mathematics Courses” (with Shawn Cole and Anna Paulson), Journal of Human Resources 51(3), 2016, pp. 656-698. (with online appendix)
“Smart Money? The Effect of Education on Financial Outcomes” (with Shawn Cole and Anna Paulson), The Review of Financial Studies 27(7), 2014, pp. 2022-2051. (with online appendix)
“Human Capital Response to Globalization: Education and Information Technology in India” Journal of Human Resources 47(2), 2012, pp. 287-330. (with online appendix)
“Grain Inflation: Identifying Agent Discretion in Response to a Conditional School Nutrition Program” (with Leigh Linden), Journal of Development Economics 99(1), 2012, pp.128-138. (Online appendix)
“Taken with a Grain of Salt? Micronutrient Fortification in South Asia” (with James Berry and Priya Mukherjee), CESifo Economic Studies 58(2), 2012, pp.422-449.
“How Much of Income Variation is Explained by Health?” (with David N. Weil), Journal of the European Economic Association 1(2-3), April-May 2003, pp. 387-96.
Work in progress
“Play to Learn: Improving Foundational Learning with Technology-Aided Formative Teaching” (with Ramiro Burga, Divya Pandey, and Sheetal Sekhri)
“Evaluating the Effect of Financial Literacy Workshops for Migrant Mineworkers in South Africa” (with Shawn Cole and Jeremy Shapiro)
“Why She Didn't Just Leave: The Effect of Nuisance Ordinances on Domestic Violence” (with Emily Moss)