Absence: Electoral Cycles and Teacher Absenteeism in India. 2025. British Journal of Political Science.
* Press coverage: Live Mint
* Replication data: GitHub, Dataverse
The Lessons Private Schools Teach: Using a Field Experiment to Understand the Effects of Private Services on Political Behavior. 2023. Comparative Political Studies.
* Winner of the 2023 Comparative International Education Society South Asia Special Interest Group Best Article Award.
* Replication data: GitHub, Dataverse
How Global Performance Assessments Shape Attitudes toward Government Decision-Making: Survey Experimental Evidence with Thomas Gift and Carlos X. Lastra Anadón. 2021. Governance.
* Replication data
Poor People's Participation: Neoliberal Institutions or Left Turn? with Tulia Falleti. 2017. Comparative Political Studies.
* Press coverage: Financial Times
Complexity, Resistance, and Forbearance in Private Markets for Primary Education in India with Abhinav Ghosh. 2025. Chapter in The Research Handbook on Education Privatization and Marketization Editors: Clara Fondevila, Huriya Jabbar, Antoni Verger and Adrian Zancajo.
Globalization, Performance Indicators, and Demands for Education: Evidence from a Survey Experiment with Thomas Gift and Carlos X. Lastra Anadón
Revolutions Half-Made: The Politics of Education Expansion in India
Bureaucratic Selection and Politics: Evidence from Teachers in Brazil with Julia Coyoli, Leslie Finger, and Jonathan Phillips
* Pre-registered at OSF
The Changing Demographics of the Teaching Labor Force: Evidence from Three Decades of Employment Surveys from Brazil and India
The Impact of COVID-19 on School Choice and Household Education Expenditures: Evidence from India. With Ashutosh Bhuradia and Fei Yuan.
From Universalization to Privatization: Drift in Indian Education Policy
Power to the Parents? Representation and Interest Aggregation in Delhi with Ashwini Deshpande and Parushya
The Political Effects of Public-Private Partnerships: Evidence from Liberia. With Shelby Carvalho
Teaching the Nation: The Construction of Identity Through Social Science Textbooks in India. With Devika Agrawal and Blair Read.
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