I am a PhD student in Political Science at Columbia University in the City of New York (USA), and an affiliated student at the Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy). Prior to Columbia, I received a B.Sc. and a M.SC in Economics from Bocconi University, and have worked as a research assistant at BRAC (Kampala, Uganda) and as a predoctoral fellow at the London School of Economics (London, UK). My substantive research interests are at the intersection of behavioral political economy and development, focusing on social norms and identity across diverse contexts, such as villages in rural East-Africa and refugee camps in Europe. My methodological interests focus on the use of experimental data to structurally estimate formal models.

Writer and researcher interested in (particularly African) politics, literature, philosophy, history, law, and policy.

I am an applied econometrician, with

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. My research lies at the intersections of comparative political economy, development, and gender, with a focus in South Asia. I am motivated by questions such as: What are the political consequences of development and development policies, particularly for women’s political behavior? How are minorities, specifically women, democratically represented and where do inequalities in political engagement persist and how are voter demands translated into policy and governance? In answering these questions, I utilize mixed methods, including field experiments, primary surveys, and in-depth qualitative fieldwork to identify empirical relationships as well as the underlying causal mechanisms. I received a Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University in 2017 and a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Texas A&M University in 2011.