Hi, welcome to my website! I am an assistant professor of economics at Binghamton University (SUNY) and an invited researcher at J-PAL South Asia. I am a development economist working on family economics, marriage, and education topics. I obtained my PhD from Rice University in 2022 and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) from 2022-2023.
PhD in Economics, 2022
Rice University
MS in Economics, 2016
University of Wisconsin-Madison
BE in Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2013
PES University, Bangalore, India
We develop a non-cooperative bargaining model with incomplete information linking dowry payments, domestic violence, resource allocation between a husband and a wife, and separation. Our model generates several predictions, which we test empirically using amendments to the Indian anti-dowry law as a natural experiment. (Review of Economics and Statistics)
This paper examines the scope of women’s empowerment in improving mental health. Exploiting variation from a legal reform intended to increase women’s inheritance rights in India.
This study investigates the causal impacts of two iterations of a large-scale nutritional intervention to promote the self-development and empowerment of adolescent girls in India.