Hi, welcome to my website! I am a development economics working on topics related to marriage, gender and family economics. I will be a postdoctoral researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (South Asia) from 2022-2023. I will begin as an Assistant Professor in Economics at SUNY-Binghamton from 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
I estimate preferences for height in the Indian marriage market and study how marital matching and sorting on height impacts children’s height distribution.
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. (Submitted)
‘Til dowry do us part: Bargaining and violence in the Indian marriage market
with Rossella Calvi
Downside of dowry crackdown — women’s decision-making power falls, domestic violence goes up
with Rossella Calvi
Dowries and women’s well-being post marriage
with Rossella Calvi
TA: Fall 2019, 2020
Instructor: Rossella Calvi
TA: Spring 2018, 2019, Fall 2020
Instructor: Yinghua He
Award: Dagobert L. Brito Award for Best Performance by a Recitation Instructor in Economics, Rice University