I am an assistant professor of economics at Dartmouth College. I work on economic development, political economy and economic geography using large administrative and remote sensing data. Some of my recent projects have focused on the impacts of India's large-scale rural roads program, the impacts of mineral sector development and on measuring intergenerational mobility in developing countries. I also have several projects on machine learning and statistical methods, with applications to the U.S. mortality crisis. I am founder of Development Data Lab and a creator of The SHRUG, which Sam Asher, Toby Lunt and I are turning into the best open data platform for socioeconomic research in India and beyond. My Google Scholar page is here.
Publications
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Rural Roads and Local Economic Development
(with Sam Asher) |
| 📖 |
Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence
from Indian Road Construction
(with Anjali Adukia and Sam Asher) |
| 🌲 |
The Ecological Footprint of Transportation Infrastructure
(with Sam Asher and Teevrat Garg)
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| 🇸🇪 |
Who Runs the International
System? Nationality and Leadership in the United
Nations Secretariat
(with Eric Werker) |
| 🗳 |
Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India
(with Sam Asher) |
Working Papers | |
| 💎 |
Rent-Seeking and Criminal
Politicians: Evidence from Mining Booms
(with Sam Asher) |
| 💀 |
Mortality Change Among Less
Educated Americans
(with Sam Asher and Charlie Rafkin) (Revise and Resubmit
at AEJ: Applied Economics) |
| ☝ |
Intergenerational Mobility in India: Estimates from New
Methods and
Administrative Data (with Sam
Asher and Charlie Rafkin) |
| 🌴 |
Moment Forests
(with Denis Nekipelov and Stephen
P. Ryan) NBER Working Paper No. 22976 (submitted) |
| 📈 |
The Socioeconomic High-resolution
Rural-Urban Geographic panel for India (SHRUG)
(with Sam Asher, Toby Lunt, and Ryu Matsuura) |
Work in Progress | |
| 🧱 |
Residential Segregation
in Urban India (with Anjali Adukia, Sam Asher,
and Brandon Tan) |
| 🐄 |
Predicting Poverty Using
Daytime Imagery (with Tony Duan, Elliott
Chartock, Haque Ishfaq, Sam Asher, Marshall Burke, David
Lobell and
Stefano
Ermon) |
| 🏃 |
The Cost of Distance:
Geography and Governance in Rural India (with Sam Asher
and Karan Nagpal) |
| 💎 |
Digging for Development: Economic Impacts of
Mining Booms (with Sam Asher) |
| 🚕 |
The Cost of Road
Infrastructure in Tanzania (with Sam Asher
and Martina Kirchberger) |
| 🤑 |
Regulation Intensity,
Rents and the Sectoral Concentration of Wealth (with Sam Asher
and Michael Walton) |
Working Papers on Hold | |
| ➰ |
Getting Signal from Interval Data: Theory and Applications to
Mortality and Intergenerational Mobility
(with Sam Asher and Charlie Rafkin)
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| 🗺 |
The Impacts of Local Control over Political
Institutions: Evidence from State Splitting in India
(with Sam Asher) |
Econ 24
You can find a copy of the Econ 24 syllabus (from the current or previous quarter) here.