Research Interests: Development Economics, Economics of Education, Labour Economics, Political Economy

Published Papers

• “Biased Teachers and Gender Gap in Learning Outcomes: Evidence from India”, with Sonali Rakshit, Journal of Development Economics, 161, 103041 (2023)

• “Caste, Gender, and Intersectionality in Stream Choice: Evidence from Higher Secondary Education in India”, with Anand Kumar, Education Economics (2023) 

• “Land Use and Cropping Decisions of Agricultural Households in India”, with S. Chandrasekhar and Vijay Laxmi Pandey, Food Security, 14, 621–635 (2022) 

• “Seasonal Migration and Feminization of Farm Management: Evidence from India”, with S. Chandrasekhar and Hema Swaminathan, Feminist Economics, 28:1, 86–113 (2022)

• “Gender Segregation in Education: Evidence from Higher Secondary Stream Choice in India”, with Stephan Klasen, Demography, 58(3), 987–1010 (2021)

• “Are Educated Leaders Good for Education? Evidence from India”, with Rahul Lahoti, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 176, 42–62 (2020)

• “Employment Transitions of Women in India: A Panel Analysis”, with Sudipa Sarkar and Stephan Klasen, World Development, 115, 291–309 (2019)

• “Household Expenditure on Higher Education in India”, with S. Chandrasekhar and P. Geetha Rani, Economic and Political Weekly, 54(20), 52–60 (2019)

• “Land-holding, participation in agriculture and short-term migration in Rural India”, with S. Chandrasekhar, Asian Population Studies, 15(2), 209–227 (2019)

• “Intra-Household Gender Disparity in School Choice: Evidence from Private Schooling in India”, Journal of Development Studies, 53:10, 1714–1730 (2017)

• “Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India”, with Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Economics of Education Review, 54, 124–142 (2016)

• “Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme”, with Farzana Afridi and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 5:7, 1–27 (2016)

    Working Papers

• “Do Educated Leaders Affect Economic Development? Evidence from India”, with Chandan Jain, Shagun Kashyap, and Rahul Lahoti, IZA Discussion Paper No. 15278 

• “When Criminality Begets Crime: The Role of Elected Politicians in India”, with Nishith Prakash, Deepak Saraswat, and Reetika Sindhi, IZA Discussion Paper No. 15259 

• “Affirmative Action and Application Strategies: Evidence from Field Experiments in Colombia”, with Ritwik Banerjee, Marcela Ibanez, and Gerhard Riener, DICE Discussion Paper 362, 2021 

• “Who Eats Last? Intra-Household Gender Inequality in Food Allocation Among Children”, with Dipanwita Ghatak, Sudipa Sarkar, and Varun Sharma, SSRN Working Paper, 2021

• “The Gendered Labour Marked Consequence of School Level Stream Choice in India”, with Stephan Klasen, IZA Discussion Paper No. 11660, 2018

Reports and Policy Articles

• “Using the Rotational Panel Data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey: A Cautionary Tale”, with Shihas Abdul-Razak, SSRN Working Paper (2021)

• “When criminality begets crime: The role of elected politicians”, with Nishith Prakash, Deepak Saraswat, and Reetika Sindhi, Ideas for India (2021)

• “Employment entry and exit by women in India”, with Sudipa Sarkar, Ideas for India (2021)

• “Does female economic empowerment promote development?”, with P. Balasubramanian, M. Ibanez, and S. Khan, PEGNet Policy Brief No. 17 (2019)

• “Protocol: The effect of interventions for women’s empowerment on children’s health and education: A systematic review of evidence from low and middle-income countries”, with S. Khan, T. Le, A. Pasha and S. Vollmer, Campbell Systematic Reviews, 13(1), 1–61 (2017)

• “Protocol: The impacts of interventions for female economic empowerment at the community level on human development: a systematic review of the evidence in low- and middle-income countries”, with M. Ibanez, S. Khan, A. Minasyan, and P. Balasubramanian, Campbell Systematic Reviews, 13(1), 1–50 (2017)

• “Gender bias in school choice”, GrOW G2E Policy Brief No. 4 (2017)

• “Does maternal employment benefit children’s education?”, GrOW G2E Policy Brief No. 8 (2017)