I am an applied microeconomist, with research interests in development, health and environmental economics. My research primarily focuses on three areas: (i) the causes and consequences of domestic violence and its transmission across generations; (ii) the social and economic determinants of mental health; (iii) the economic responses to water scarcity and water pollution in developed and developing countries.

My research has been supported by the International Growth Centre (IGC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the NBER/Gates Foundation, and  J-PAL Humanitarian Protection Initiative (HPI).

I currently serve as an Associate Editor at the Economic Development and Cultural Change and am a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. 

Prior to joining Wellesley College, I was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School and an Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.