I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Economics at the Paris School of Economics and a Stone Center Ph.D. Fellow. My research interests lie in public economics, development economics, and political economy, with an emerging focus on the economics of technology.
I hold a BA (Hons.) in Economics from the University of Delhi and an MRes (APE track) from the Paris School of Economics. I previously served as a Junior Researcher at the International Tax Observatory. I have also worked with the Ministry of Finance (Government of India), Skatteforsk, CNRS, and the Royal Economic Society.
Research
Working Papers
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Mobile Internet and Collective Action: Evidence from India
βΈ Abstract
How does the rapid expansion of cheap mobile internet affect collective action in developing democracies? This paper studies the 2016 launch of Jio in India, which cut mobile data prices by more than 90 percent and brought hundreds of millions of first-time users online within months. Using cross-district variation in baseline Jio coverage, the paper estimates a continuous-treatment difference-in-differences design with administrative district-year records from 2014 to 2020. Districts with greater exposure became more likely to record protests after the launch. A 10 percentage-point increase in coverage raised the probability of any protest by 1.2 percentage points, relative to a pre-period base rate of 32 percent. The results show that cheap mobile internet widened the geography of collective action in India.
Work in Progress
- Offshore Real Estate Investments by Politically-Exposed Persons: Evidence from the UK
- Non State Governance and National Identity: Evidence from Democratic Republic of Congo