Krea University, Sri City — Assistant Professor, June 2018–Present
ICAS, New Delhi — Postdoctoral Fellow, December 2018–May 2019
IFMR, Sri City — Senior Faculty Associate, April 2017–June 2018
SHRAMIC, IGIDR, Mumbai — Research Associate, August 2016–March 2017
SPANDAN, IGIDR, Mumbai — Research Associate, January 2016–June 2016
TCS e-Serve Ltd., Mumbai — Assistant Manager, June 2010–November 2011
Mint, New Delhi — Consultant, September 2015–March 2018
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, Maharashtra
PhD, Development Studies, 2018.
M.Sc., Economics, 2010.
University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
B.A., Economics, Geography, and English Literature. 2008.
Research Areas: Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics.
"Does non-farm income affect food security? Evidence from India" (with Andaleeb Rahman). Journal of Development Studies, 56(6), 1190–1209, 2020.
"Diversity Deficit and Scale-Flip" (with Naveen Bharathi, Deepak Malghan, and Andaleeb Rahman). Journal of Development Studies, 57(4), 695–713, 2021.
"Fractal Urbanism: City Size and Residential Segregation in India" (with Naveen Bharathi, Deepak Malghan, and Andaleeb Rahman). World Development, 141, 105397, 2021.
"Residential Segregation and Public Services in Urban India" (with Naveen Bharathi, Deepak Malghan, and Andaleeb Rahman). Urban Studies, 59(14), 2912–2932, 2022.
"Status inequality and public goods" (with Naveen Bharathi, Deepak Malghan, and Andaleeb Rahman). World Development, 176, 106526, 2024.
"Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research" (with Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook, et al). Nature, 652, 151-156,2026.
"Comparison of Human, AI-Assisted, and Quasi-Automated Approaches to Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science" (with Abel Brodeur, David Valenta, Alexandru Marcoci, et al). PNAS (forthcoming).
See Teaching for the complete list of courses.
IFMR Social Science Fellowship (2024), with Karthik Rao Cavale.
Krea Faculty Fellowships (2022–2023), with Karthik Rao Cavale.
IGIDR PhD Fellowship (2012–2016).
2024: 58th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society, Agartala; International Conference on "Recent Developments in Economics Research: Theory and Evidence", JNU, New Delhi; Population Association of America, Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio.
2023: SAMVAAD; Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, ISI, New Delhi.
2019: Population Association of America, Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas; Development Economics and Policy Conference, DIW Berlin; Nordic Conference on Development Economics, Copenhagen; 1st Conference on Urban Economics and Public Services in Developing Countries, Guangzhou; PEGNet Conference, Bonn; Winter School 2019, Delhi School of Economics.
2018: Population Association of America, Annual Meeting, Denver; Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, ISI Delhi.
2017: Global Food Symposium, Göttingen; PEGNet Conference, Zurich.
2016: ADBI-SU Workshop on Urbanization in Asia, Seoul; TIES Conference, Kozhikode.
2015: HDCA Conference, Georgetown University.
2014: IGIDR-ISI Doctoral Workshop, IGIDR, Mumbai.
Member, Organizing Committee, Research Symposium on Finance and Economics (RSFE), 2019–2023.
Member, Admission Committee, IFMR GSB Krea University, 2021–Present.
Member, Ranking and Accreditation Committee, IFMR GSB Krea University, 2019–2022.
Area Chair, Economics Area, IFMR GSB Krea University, 2024–Present.
Referee: Journal of Quantitative Economics, India Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, Review of Development Economics.
Kumar Ashutosh (2020–ongoing)
Utkarsh Chaudhary (2020–ongoing)
Mohammed Hashim (2021–ongoing)
Ritvic Paarekh (2025-2026)
R, Stata, SAS, Python, Julia. Unix/Linux, Windows.
Hindi (fluent), English (fluent), Urdu (working).
Writing for Mint: livemint.com
Citizenship: Indian
References available upon request.