Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Economics
·
2023 - Present
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Scholarly Works
Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India
Journal article Review of Economic Studies · January 1, 2026 Non-family-based institutions for socializing young people may play a vital role in creating close-knit, inclusive communities. We study the potential for youth camps—integrating rituals, sports, and civics training—to strengthen intergroup cohesion. We ra ... Full text Open Access CiteReligious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India
Journal article Journal of Political Economy · October 1, 2025 This paper implements a field experiment in India to study whether the effects of religious diversity on productivity and attitudes depend on a firm’s production technology. I randomly assigned Hindu and Muslim workers at a manufacturing plant in West Beng ... Full text CiteLinks and Legibility: Making Sense of Historical U.S. Census Automated Linking Methods
Journal article Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · January 1, 2024 How does handwriting legibility affect the performance of algorithms that link individuals across census rounds? We propose a measure of legibility, which we implement at scale for the 1940 U.S. Census, and find strikingly wide variation in enumeration-dis ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
The Social and Academic Benefits of Youth Camps for Students
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Chicago · 2026 - 2028Zero-Sum Thinking and Economic Behavior
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Institute for Humane Studies · 2026 - 2027Identity Hiding and Inequality: Experimental Evidence from India
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Chicago · 2024 - 2026View All Grants
Education
University of British Columbia (Canada) ·
2022
Ph.D.
London School of Economics (United Kingdom) ·
2016
M.S.
University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) ·
2015
M.A.