Main areas of interest: Public Finance and Macroeconomics
Current Academic Projects:
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)]. Under Review.
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]
. Under Review.
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
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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