I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Southern California. My primary research fields are development and health economics, with secondary interests in public and behavioral economics. My research examines how to strengthen human capital among disadvantaged populations and how governments in developing countries can improve outcomes for the poor through public programs, with a focus on early childhood nutrition and health.

In my job market paper, I show that parents systematically overestimate their children’s nutritional status—particularly when they have high exposure to other malnourished children within their communities—and underestimate the long-term consequences of early-life malnutrition. Correcting these beliefs through information treatments improves both child feeding and anthropometric outcomes. Another chapter of my dissertation investigates underreporting of child malnutrition rates in government administrative data in India. 

I hold a master’s degree in economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and an undergraduate degree from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University.