Research

Working Papers

1. The Political Economy of Intergroup Contact: Evidence from Malaysia (with Chun Chee Kok, Gedeon Lim, Danial Shariat, and Shunsuke Tsuda).
   In submission.

2. Parents in the Classroom: Strengthening Government Capacity to Deliver Early Childhood Education (with Bet Caeyers, Lina Cardona-Sosa, Sarah Cattan, and Sonya Krutikova).
   In submission.

Publications

1. Leveraging Virtual Contact and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony (with Michael Vlassopoulos and Yves Zenou).
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 141(2): 1449–1519, 2026.

2. Non-WEIRD Preferences (with Smriti Sharma).
   In Handbook of Experimental Development Economics (eds. Utteeyo Dasgupta and Pushkar Maitra), 2025. [[DOI]]

3. Behavioral Consequences of Religious Schooling.
   Journal of Development Economics, 167: 103237, 2024.

4. Market Competition and Discrimination (with Michael Vlassopoulos and Yves Zenou).
   European Economic Review, 152: 104361, 2023.

5. Determinants and Dynamics of Food Insecurity During COVID-19 in Rural Bangladesh (with Firoz Ahmed, Asad Islam, Debayan Pakrashi, and Tabassum Rahman).
   Food Policy, 101: 102066, 2021.

6. Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh (with Michael Vlassopoulos).
   The Economic Journal, 130(627): 793–821, 2020.