Research

Working Papers/Work in Progress

Identity Politics, Partisan Sentiment and Household Spending (with Arkadev Ghosh & Aruni Mitra) [Submitted]

Automation and Employment Recovery After The Great Recession (with Lalit Contractor & Abhishek Rai) [Submitted]

Automation and Immigrants: Evidence from Local Labour Markets (with Anand Chopra) [Revision submitted to Labour Economics]

Intoxicant Consumption Dynamics under Alcohol Prohibition: Evidence from India (with Pubali Chakraborty) [Submitted]

Electoral Cycles and Consumption in India (with Sakshi Satija) [Submitted]

Temperature shocks and Consumption (with Sankalp Mathur)

Structural Transformation and Formalization (with Lalit Contractor & Abhishek Rai)

Deunionization and Immigrant Entry (Under Revision)

Publications

  1. Class, Caste and Conspicuous Consumption in India (with Aruni Mitra) [Economica, forthcoming 2026]
  2. Bank Stability and Robot Adoption [Applied Economics Letters, 2024]
  3. Risk sharing in Public-Private Partnerships [Operations Research Forum, 2023]
  4. Local Leadership and Public Good: Evidence from The National Rural Employment
    Guarantee Scheme in India
    [Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2019]