Research

Publications

Local Population Characteristics and Access Equity of 340B Contract Pharmacies

With Maura Coughlin. Health Affairs Scholar, 3(7), 2025.

The Wizard of OZ (Opportunity Zones): Spatial Spillovers in Place-Based Programs

With Robin Sickles and Yanfei Sun., Seven Decades of Econometrics and Beyond, Springer, 2025.

AI-assisted teams outperform AI-led teams but not human-only teams in assessing research reproducibility in quantitative social science. (Meta Paper published after Replication Games)

With Abel Brodeur et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123.22, 2026.

Working papers

Quality Considerations and Universal Healthcare

Working Paper

A structural model of hospital choice under limited consideration, estimated on data from a large public insurance scheme in India. Artificial neural networks estimate risk-adjusted hospital mortality as the quality measure. Counterfactuals evaluate information provision and hospital empanelment incentives.

Pennies for Pads: Subsidized Menstrual Health Products and Adoption in India

With Ritika Sethi. Under review.

A doubly robust difference-in-differences estimator applied to the staggered rollout of Jan Aushadhi Kendra pharmacies, covering nearly 500,000 women aged 15 to 24 across two rounds of the National Family Health Survey. Subsidized availability raises sanitary napkin use by 9.6 percentage points.

Beyond a Free Lunch: Unintended Consequences of an Out-of-School Nutrition Program on Adolescent Girls' School Enrollment and Health Outcomes

With Tanmay Devi, Ajinkya Keskar, and Ritika Sethi Under review

Spectrum Allocation to Public Operators: A Structural Analysis of Set-Asides versus Subsidies in Indian Telecom Auctions

With Rajarshi Bhowal, and Nurdaulet Menglibayev.

Works in progress

Long Distance Relationships: Analyzing Hospital-Pharmacy Contracts

With Maura Coughlin.

Who Matches with Whom: Mergers and Acquisitions in Health Systems

Allocating Bundles: An Operations Research Framework

With Jeremy Fox.

Other writing

Incentives in the Healthcare System

With Sisir Debnath and Tarun Jain. Harvard Business Publishing case study, 2019.