Research
Research
How Does Women's Employment Affect Their Time Use? Evidence from a Randomized Encouragement Design in India. January 2026. Rejected and Resubmitted, Review of Economics and Statistics.
The Power of Persuasion: Causal Effects of Household Communication on Women's Employment, with Namrata Kala. October 2025. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy.
Power to the Personnel? The Impacts of Managerial Discretion vs. Worker Democracy in Employee Recognition, with Namrata Kala. January 2026.
AI-Enhanced Handheld ECGs to Screen for Prior Myocardial Infarction in Rural India, with Jenny Wang, Alexander Schubert, Nikhil Kanakamedala, Luke Messac, Cyrus Reginald, Frank Schilbach, T.S. Selvavinayagam, Girija Vaidyanathan, Esther Duflo, and Ziad Obermeyer. January 2026.
Women's Self-Efficacy and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from a Two-Stage Experiment in India. August 2025.
Gender Norms and Development, with Erica Field and Alessandra Voena. February 2026. Forthcoming, Handbook of Development Economics.
Coupling Labor Supply Decisions: An Experiment in India, with Matt Lowe. December 2025. Conditionally Accepted, Journal of the European Economic Association.
Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Cash Transfers on Older Persons Living Alone in India: A Randomized Trial, with Abhijit Banerjee, Erin Grela, Frank Schilbach, Miriam Sequeira, Garima Sharma, Girija Vaidyanathan, and Esther Duflo. Annals of Internal Medicine, 176 (5): 632–641. May 2023.
Depression and Loneliness among the Elderly in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Erin Grela, Frank Schilbach, Garima Sharma, and Girija Vaidyanathan. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 37 (2): 179-202. Spring 2023.
Women's Employment and Empowerment: Descriptive Evidence. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 112: 541-545. May 2022.
Female Labour Force Participation, with Rachel Heath, Arielle Bernhardt, Girija Borker, Anne Fitzpatrick, Anthony Keats, Andreas Menzel, Teresa Molina, and Garima Sharma. VoxDevLit, 11(2). October 2025.
Community-based Mental Health Interventions for Elderly Women in Tamil Nadu, India, with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Camille Falezan, Frank Schilbach, Miriam Sequeira, Girija Vaidyanathan, and Jenny Wang. Experiment in the field.
The Impact of Pre-Marital Counseling on Women's Empowerment and Couples' Wellbeing: A Field Experiment in Indonesia, with Reshmaan Hussam and Nurina Merdikawati. Pilot completed.
Women's Employment in India: Intra-Household and Intra-Personal Constraints. August 2021.