Research

Working Papers/Work in Progress

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

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

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

Electoral Cycles and Consumption in India (with Sakshi Satija)

Temperature Shocks and Consumption (with Sankalp Mathur)

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

Publications

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