The Long-run Development Impacts of Agricultural Productivity Gains: Evidence from Irrigation Canals in India (with Alison Campion, Douglas Gollin, and Paul Novosad). Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies.
→ Coverage: IndiaSpend
→ Our VoxDev post

Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Local Public Services in India: Evidence from 1.5m Neighborhoods (with Anjali Adukia, Kritarth Jha, Brandon Tan, and Paul Novosad). Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review.
→ Summary and data visualization
→ Our op-ed in the Hindustan Times
→ Fact sheet for media
→ Coverage: Reuters, The Wire, The Indian Express, The Print, Scroll, Article 14

Access to Opportunity in the Sciences: Evidence from the Nobel Laureates (with Catriona Farquharson, Eni Iljazi, and Paul Novosad). Submitted.
→ CEPR podcast
→ Coverage: STAT

In-group Bias in the Indian Judiciary: Evidence from 5 Million Criminal Cases (with Elliott Ash, Aditi Bhowmick, Daniel Chen, Tanaya Devi, Christoph Goessman, Paul Novosad, and Bilal Siddiqi). March 2025, Review of Economics and Statistics.
→ Non-technical description
→ Our op-eds: Hindustan Times and The Print
→ Coverage: The Indian Express, The Telegraph, Bar and Bench, and The Logical Indian
→ Commentary on the paper in Economic and Political Weekly (EPW)

Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Methods and Estimates Across Time, Space, and Communities (with Paul Novosad and Charlie Rafkin). April 2024, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
→ Fact sheet for media
→ Winner of the 2022 ADB-IEA Innovative Policy Research Award
→ Brief interview with NOVAFRICA, podcast discussion with Gautam Nair at CASI (U Penn)
→ Interactive Delhi mobility map
→ Code for generating bottom half mobility (μ-0-50), all-India town, subdistrict, and district-level local mobility estimates: github:paper-anr-mobility-india
→ Coverage: Mint, Mint, The Wire, The Wire, Scroll, The Indian Express, The Hindu, The Telegraph, Quartz, and The Straits Times
→ Public seminar organized by Bahujan Economists

Rent-Seeking and Criminal Politicians: Evidence from Mining Booms (with Paul Novosad). January 2023, Review of Economics and Statistics.
→ Coverage: The Economist
→ Blogs: VoxDev and Ideas for India

Big, Open Data for Development: A Vision for India (with Aditi Bhowmick, Alison Campion, Tobias Lunt, and Paul Novosad). 2022, India Policy Forum 2021, edited by Poonam Gupta, Barry Bosworth, and Karthik Muralidharan. Invited paper.
→ Our India Policy Forum session (with discussants and discussion)

Mortality Change Among Less Educated Americans (with Paul Novosad and Charlie Rafkin). October 2022, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
→ Replication/methods code
→ Great, accessible writeup in Vox

Development Research at High Geographic Resolution: An Analysis of Night Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India using the SHRUG Open Data Platform (with Toby Lunt, Ryu Matsuura, and Paul Novosad). November 2021, World Bank Economic Review.
→ SHRUG Codebook
→ Download the SHRUG
→ Blog: Ideas for India
→ Coverage: Mint
→ Podcast: Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee

The Ecological Impact of Transportation Infrastructure (with Teevrat Garg and Paul Novosad) July 2020, Economic Journal.
→ Correction on data description

Rural Roads and Local Economic Development (with Paul Novosad). March 2020, American Economic Review.
→ Coverage: Economist, Mint, Mint, Mint, Hindu Business Line

Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction (with Anjali Adukia and Paul Novosad). January 2020, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Foster Group Coordination? (with Maoliang Ye, Jie Zheng and Plamen Nikolov). January 2020, Management Science.

Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India (with Paul Novosad). January 2017, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

Other Publications

Representative Estimates of Covid-19 Infection Fatality Rates from Four Locations in India: Cross-sectional Study (with Rebecca Cai, Anup Malani, Paul Novosad, and Vaidehi Tandel). 2021, BMJ Open.
→ Op-ed in Mint
→ The Moving Curve Podcast interview with Paul and me on India’s data deficit

COVID-19 Mortality Effects of Underlying Health Conditions in India: a Modelling Study (with Paul Novosad, Radhika Jain, and Alison Campion). 2020, BMJ Open.