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Main areas of interest: Public Finance and Macroeconomics



Current Academic Projects:

  • Elasticity and Optimal Capital Taxation. [First Draft coming soon].

  • Automation, Gender, and Inequality: Which Tradeoffs do Policymakers Face? [with Subhrasil Chingri (IIT Delhi), Debasis Mondal (IIT Delhi) and Klaus Prettner (Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria)][Working Paper 2025].

  • Comments on Pareto-Improving Optimal Capital and Labor Taxes [with Chakshu Jain (ISI Delhi)] [Working paper, 2024 November].

    Reject and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy.

  • Fertility in an Unequal, Innovative World [with Chakshu Jain (ISI Delhi)][Working Paper].

  • Gender Gap and Decline in Female Labour Force Participation in India: A Joint Search Perspective [with S. Chandrasekhar (IGIDR) and Srinivasan Murali (IIM Bangalore)][Working Paper 2024].

  • Patriarchy, Gender Norms and Household Labor Supply [with Shankha Chakraborty (U Oregon) and Korok Dasgupta (Columbia U)]. [First Draft coming soon]

  • Externalities induced Education Subsidy [with Cagri S. Kumru (ANU) and Jiu Lian (ANU)]. [First Draft coming soon]

  • Indian Pension System and Macroeconomics [with Mukesh Anand (NIPFP), Chakshu Jain (ISI Delhi)]. [In progress]

  • Public Good and Macroeconomy [with Chakshu Jain (ISI Delhi), Alok Johri (McMaster U)]. [In progress]

  • Religious Fluctuations over the Business Cycle [with Sriya Iyer (U Cambridge), Anand Kumar (APU), Srinivasan Murali (IIM Bangalore)]. [In progress]


Current Policy Projects:

  • Evaluation of Finances for the State.
    For the Sixteenth Finance Commission, Government of India    .

  • Reassessment of National Parameters for Appraisal of Public Investment Programmes/Projects in India [with E. Somanathan (ISI Delhi)].
    For the NITI Aayog, Government of India    .

    Rest to be updated soon when finalized!.