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Hello! 😊 I'm currently a Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Economics at UC San Diego and the J-PAL Payments & Governance Research Program, where I provide research assistance to randomized controlled trials examining the direct and general equilibrium effects of reforms to Indian social programs such as Integrated Child Development Services and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. I spend my days working with data, designing tables and graphs, running simulations, and surveying literature for a range of fledgling, ongoing, and completed experiments in Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Odisha.

Outside (and inside) my day job, I'm an (aspiring) applied microeconomist, with most of my research and reading sitting at the cross-sections of health, development, and welfare analysis and measurement. Lately, I've also enjoyed thinking (and ranting) about cities and transit, the philosophy of social science, effective altruism, and critical development studies. My interests change often; we'll see how long those stick.

Prior to joining UCSD/J-PAL, I spent three years at the London School of Economics (LSE), where I graduated with a first class honors BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics. At the LSE, I worked on projects examining the health effects of the ACA Medicaid expansions, the impact of COVID-19 on the construction of national statistics, the implications of cryptocurrency for European macroprudential policy, and patterns of pro-sociality among Chinese Communist Party members. I don't engage much, but am happy to get in touch via LinkedIn, Twitter, or Email for folks interested in any of the above.