Publications

Working Papers

• Do fiscal reforms need a gender lens? Evidence from Indian states (Job Market Paper)
  Difference-in-Differences analysis (1991–2020); shows gender budgeting improves credibility and reallocation towards inclusive sectors.

• Gender Budgeting and Health Spending Efficiency in Indian States (CERDI Working Paper)
  Staggered DiD and entropy balancing; persistent gains in fiscal efficiency and transparency.

• Federalism and Women Empowerment in India
  2SLS estimation; fiscal autonomy improves women’s outcomes and reduces gender inequality.

• Revenues vs. Expenditures: How Fiscal Decentralization Improves Infrastructure Spending Efficiency
  IV and GMM estimations in 40 countries; dynamic analysis of revenue vs. expenditure decentralization.

• Mobile Money Adoption and Poverty Reduction in African Countries (with Alassani, Karippacheril, Tinta)
  DiD on 46 countries; digital G2P improves income distribution, conditional on structural factors.

• Designing Autonomy: Federalism, Conflict, and the Lessons of Fragility
  Game theory + empirical analysis; fiscal autonomy reduces secessionist and resource-related conflicts.

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Work in Progress

• Reshaping Citizen-Government Dynamics: The Impact of Mobile Money on State Relations
  (with Alassani, Karippacheril, Tinta) – currently under development.