My research interest is in development and environmental economics.

Publications

Mines: the local wealth and health effects of mineral mining in developing countries (with Prabhat Barnwal).

Journal of Development Economics 139 (2019): 1-16.

Demand for environmental quality information and household response: evidence from well-water arsenic testing (with Prabhat Barnwal, Alexander van Geen, and Chander Kumar Singh).

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 86 (2017): 160-192.

Blog: Ideas for India.

Working paper

Health impacts of the Green Revolution: evidence from 600,000 births across the developing world (with Prabhat Barnwal, Aaditya Dar, Ram Fishman, Gordon McCord, and Nathan Mueller)

Revise and resubmit at Journal of Health Economics.