Research

Research & empirical work

My research interests span development, health, migration, labour markets and institutions, with a growing focus on the economics of AI and data.

Development economicsHealthMigrationLabour marketsInstitutions & state capacityPublic policyInternational economicsEconomics of AIData & measurement

Global Skill Partnerships: Migration, Skills & Employment

Research Assistant — World Bank · Ongoing

With Limon Bade Rodriguez. Work includes a quantitative impact evaluation of a Global Skill Partnership pilot in the ICT sector involving Morocco and Belgium.

Survey and administrative data; treatment/comparison groups; Propensity Score Matching; covariate balance; robustness diagnostics; employment and job-search outcomes.

Do the Feldstein-Horioka Results Hold Post-COVID?

MA Capstone — Johns Hopkins SAIS · Ongoing

Examines the relationship between domestic saving and investment using OECD countries from 1980–2023, with IMF WEO, OECD and Our World in Data.

Methods: Panel Fixed Effects · OLS · Stata · Excel

Civil Service Recruitment & Development

Graduate Research Assistant — Johns Hopkins SAIS

With Prof. Ritam Chaurey. Research examining civil servant recruitment policies and development outcomes using multiple sources, econometric analysis and research synthesis.

Bleeding at the Margins

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Co-authored research examining period poverty among SC and ST women in India using NFHS-5 and decomposition analysis. Published in The Journal of Development Studies, 2023.

Healthcare & Elderly in India

MA Economics Dissertation — Ewing Christian College

Does the National Healthcare Program work for the Elderly in India?: A Panel Data Study.

Detailed research design and findings to be added.

Healthcare Access & Entitlements

National Human Rights Commission of India

Work on health entitlements, healthcare delivery, rural outreach and access. Built an Excel database, identified gaps and developed strategic recommendations.

Research toolkit

How I work with evidence

Methods: RCTs · Difference-in-Differences · Fixed Effects · IV · RDD · PSM · OLS · Panel data

Data: Survey · Administrative · Household · International economic · Panel datasets

Tools: Stata · R · Excel · SPSS