Hi, welcome to my website! I am a development economist, working on topics related to family economics and education. Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (South Asia). 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. (R&R at Review of Economics and Statistics)