The Road Less Traveled?Gender Gaps along the Path to Political Candidacy (with Lakshmi Iyer), forthcoming World Development, 2019


Stigma, Discrimination and Self-Image: Evidence from Kolkata Brothels (with Sayantan Ghosal, Sanchari Roy, Sandip Mitra and Smarajit Jana), Working Paper, 2017


Can Political Empowerment help Economic Empowerment? Women Leaders and Female Labor Force Participation in India (with Ejaz Ghani and Stephen D. O’Connell) , Working paper coming soon


The Power of Political Voice: Political Representation and Crimes against Women in India (with Lakshmi Iyer, Prachi Mishra and Petia Topalova), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2012



Mine, Your or Ours? The Efficiency of Household Investment Decisions: An Experimental Approach, forthcoming World Bank Economic Review 2019