Research Areas:
Development Economics; Gender and Public Policy; Health Economics and Policy; Evaluation of Policy and Programmes

Recent Consulting:
International Center for Research on Women, Gender and land tenure surveys in South Africa and Uganda, 2008-till date
UNDP, Regional Centre, Sri Lanka, 2008

Current Projects:
In Her Name: Measuring the Gender Asset Gap. A Pilot Study to Collect Sex Disaggregated Data in Ecuador, Ghana, and India, funded by Dutch Government http://genderassetgap.iimb.ernet.in/

Impact of Special Economic Zones on Local Communities funded by IIM Bangalore

Academic Positions:
IIM Bangalore: Assistant Professor 2010-present

IIM Bangalore: Visiting Faculty 2007-2010
Economist, Poverty Reduction and Economic Governance Team, the International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2004 - 2007
Postdoctoral Scholar, the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2003 - 2004

Significant Publications:
Work in Progress:

"Intersections of Women's Property and Inheritance Rights, HIV and AIDS: Evidence from Two Districts in Uganda and South Africa" (with Kimberly Ashburn; Aslihan Kes, Nata Duvvury, Cherryl J Walker, Michael A Aliber, Margaret A Rugadya, Herbert Kamusiime). In review

Journal Articles, Books and Refereed Research Reports:

"Impact of Access to Credit on Labor Allocation Patterns in Malawi" World Development, Forthcoming (with Jill Findeis and Rodrigo Salcedo DuBois) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.002)

"Women's Property Rights and HIV & AIDS: Evidence from India." 2009. Economic and Political Weekly, 44 (17), pp:101-108. (with Nandita Bhatla and Swati Chakraborty).

"Exploring the Links between Women's Property and Inheritance Rights, HIV and AIDS, and Domestic Violence: Research Findings from Amajuba District, South Africa and Iganga District, Uganda" HSRC Press, 2008 (ed. Hema Swaminathan, Cherryl Walker, and Margaret Rugadya)

"The Retail Revolution: Do We Know Enough?" Economic and Political Weekly, 42 (14), pp: 1246-1247, 2007 (with Stephan Goetz)

"Wal-Mart and County-Wide Poverty" Social Science Quarterly, 87 (2), pp: 211-226, 2006. (with Stephan Goetz)

"Gender and Time Poverty in Sub Saharan Africa." 2006. In Gender, Time Use and Poverty in Sub Saharan Africa, edited by Mark Blackden and Quentin Wodon. World Bank. (with Aslihan Kes)

"Changing Fortunes: Poverty in Rural America". 2006. In Population Change and Rural Society, edited by David Brown and William Kandel. Springer Verlag Press. (with Stephan Goetz and Leif Jenson)

"Farm Households in the United States Labor Participation, Decision-making and the Effects of Farm Asset Control" Economie Rurale, "Famille Agricole", Issue 289-290, September-Décember 2005. (with Jill Findeis and Anuja Jayaraman)

"Policy Interventions and Poverty in America" American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 86 (5), pp: 1289-1296, 2004, (with Jill Findeis)