Peer-Reviewed Papers
Educational Decisions in the Context of Urban Marginalisation in Mumbai, India (with A. Chudgar, J. Chavda, & S. Hatakeyama), Compare, 2023.
Child labor as a barrier to foundational skills: Evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan (with A. Chudgar, S. Hatakeyama, & A. Bizhanova), Prospects, 2022.
Policy Reports
Summative Evaluation of UNICEF India’s Cotton Corridors Project: ‘Preventing Exploitation and Protecting Children’s rights in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.’ (Oxford Policy Management and Glocal Research Services), 2016.
Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN) Composite Survey 3. (Oxford Policy Management), 2016.
Bihar Child Support Program: Midline Impact Evaluation Report (Oxford Policy Management), 2016.
Impact Evaluation of the Norway India Partnership Initiative Phase-II for Maternal and Child Health (Oxford Policy Management and Norad), 2014.
Working Papers / Work-in-Progress
Experimental Effects of Full versus Half-Day Pre-K on the Home Lives of Young Children and their Families (with A. Atteberry & K. Malhotra) [Revise & Resubmit].
This paper uses a randomized controlled trial to study how access to full-day versus half-day pre-K affects family outcomes in a school district – including childcare arrangements and costs, parent employment and stress, and parent-child interactions at home – in Colorado (U.S.).
Family Matters: Adult Involvement and Early Childhood Outcomes across Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Proquest Doctoral Dissertation, 2022.
This dissertation examines caregiver involvement in early childhood care and education across low- and middle-income countries, using quantitative analysis of UNICEF survey data from Ghana, The Gambia, and Zimbabwe, and qualitative interviews with parents in Delhi, India.
Breaking Out: Education and the child in poor households, Young Lives student paper, 2013.
This paper examines household and child-level factors that determine educational outcomes (enrollment and test scores) among children in Andhra Pradesh, India, using panel data analysis.
Maternal Workforce Participation and Children’s Early Education and Primary School Outcomes
This study examines the impact of maternal employment on children’s early education and primary school outcomes in rural India, using 15 years of longitudinal data and leveraging the phase-wise rollout of India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) as a natural experiment to establish causal estimates.