Research

All Published Papers: 

A Cautionary Tale of Fat Tails (with Chetan Dave & Scott Dressler) [Accepted Journal of Macroeconomics, 2025]
Worker Reallocation, Firm Innovation, and Chinese Import Competition (with Grace Gu, Dario Pozzoli and Vera Rocha) (Journal of International Economics, 2024)
1. Worker Reallocation, Firm Innovation, and Chinese Import Competition (Online Appendix)
The Cyclicality of On-the-Job Search (with Felix Bransch and Benedikt Mihm) (Labour Economics, 2024)
Irrigation and the Spatial Pattern of Structural Transformation in India (with David Blakeslee, Aaditya Dar, Ram Fishman, Heitor Pellegrina, & Karan Singh) (Journal of Development Economics, 2023)
Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses (with Ibrahim et al.) (Scientific Reports, 2023)
The impact of COVID-19 on children's health and well-being (Journal of Economic Psychology, 2022) Fred van Raaij JoEP Best Paper Award
Religion and Human Capital (with Benedikt Mihm) (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022)
Chinese Import Competition, Offshoring and Servitization (with Grace Gu, Dario Pozzoli and Vera Rocha) (Economic Inquiry, 2021)
In the Heat of the Moment: Economic and Non-Economic Drivers of the Weather-Crime Relationship (with David Blakeslee, Ritam Chaurey, Ram Fishman and Deepak Malghan) (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021)
The impact of face masks on interpersonal trust in times of COVID-19 (with Benedikt Mihm and Malte Reichelt) (Scientific Reports, 2021)
Gender-Differences in Bargaining with Asymmetric Information (with Benedikt Mihm, Maximilian Mihm & Florian Timme) (Journal of Economic Psychology, 2021)
Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India: Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program (with David Blakeslee, Ritam Chaurey & Ram Fishman) Ideas for India Column (The World Bank Economic Review, 2021)
Trade and Wage Inequality: The mediating roles of occupation in Germany (with Malte Reichelt and Marvin Suesse) (Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 2020)
Trade-Induced Skill Polarization (with Grace Gu, Dario Pozzoli and Vera Rocha) (Economic Inquiry, 2020)
An Experimental Analysis of Tax Avoidance Policies (with Benedikt Mihm and Florian Timme) (International Tax and Public Finance, 2018)
1. An Experimental Analysis of Tax Avoidance Policies (Online Appendix)
A Tale of Fat Tails (with Chetan Dave) (European Economic Review, 2017)
Asymmetric Effects of Tax Changes (with Syed Muhammad Hussain) (Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2016)
1. Asymmetric Effects of Tax Changes (Online Appendix)
Financial Integration Thresholds for Consumption Risk Sharing (International Review of Economics and Finance, 2015)
Ex-ante Implications of Sovereign Defaults (Journal of Banking and Finance, 2014)

Working Papers:

Supply Chain Network and Macroeconomic Expectations of Firms (with Ina Hajdini, Saten Kumar, Jordan Norris, Mathieu Pedemonte) AEA Registry
Land Inequality in India: Nature, History, and Markets (with Nitin Bharti and David Blakeslee)
Clean Air in the Classroom: Environmental Inputs and Human Capital Formation (with Nitin Bharti, David Blakeslee, Torsten Figueiredo-Walter and Talha Naeem) AEA Registry [R&R Journal of Development Economics]
The Economics of Begging (with Nishtha Sharma) -- Econometric Society's Best Paper Award in Applied Economics Conference 2022
From Education to Extremism? Exploring Madrassa Identity and Its Implications (with Rafat Mahmood and Jocelyn Belanger) AEA Registry
Science on the Move: How Experiential Learning Shapes Human Capital (with Nitin Bharti, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Nishith Prakash) AEA Registry
Lost Connections: The Economic and Social Impacts of Early-Life Mental Health (with Benedikt Mihm, Luca Maria Pesando and Antje von Suchodoletz)

Work in Progress:

Entrepreneurial Mindset Development Program Curriculum in Andhra Pradesh (with Sofia Amaral, Aakash Bhalotia, Ritam Chaurey, Isis Gaddis, Gaurav Khanna, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Nishith Prakash and Raghav Rakesh) AEA Registry