Alcohol and Self-Control

The study explores the impact of alcoholism on decision-making and productivity, while simultaneously studying the choice structures of individuals when self-control is instilled through commitment devices.

Developing Numeracy and the Ability to Sustain Attention

The study examines the relationship between dynamically adaptive educational technologies and the development of both academic and generalizable skills, measured using traditional educational metrics and experimental tasks.

Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Indian Village Economy

Intra-state migrants in Tamil Nadu have faced innumerable setbacks due to COVID-19. This study is an attempt to understand the impact of the challenges they have been facing on a day to day basis.

Learning in the Household

The study explores the nuances of decision-making of households in India, how information is aggregated amongst couples, and the role of gender on these outcomes.

Labor Supply - Memory and Attention

The study examines how biased memory affects labor supply and work search amongst daily wage casual workers.

Mitigating the Economic and Mental Health Impacts of Covid-19 in India

Political Communication on WhatsApp

This project focuses on the determinants and consequences of ideologically segregated political communication on WhatsApp.

Regular Labor Supply in Labor Markets

This project explores whether it is possible to encourage regular labor supply among casual daily laborers.

The Economic Consequences of Low Caloric Intake

The study explores the causal impact of nutrition intake on productivity among the poor.

Taxing the poor twice? Poverty, Bandwidth, and Value of Consumption

The study focuses on understanding the impact of cognitive bandwidth constraints—imposed by poverty—on the utility gained from positive and negative experiences.

The Economic Consequences of Depression

The study—a follow-up on previous trials conducted by Sangath, a mental health organization in India—uses methods from experimental and development economics to measure the long-term impact of treating depression on economic preferences and beliefs, belief formation, information processing, and real-world economic behaviors.

The Economic and Health Consequences of Improving Sleep Among the Urban Poor

A randomized controlled trial examining the consequences of improving sleep among the poor. The study considers a broad range of downstream outcomes including productivity, health, well-being, and decision-making.

The Barriers to Demand for Mental Health Services

The study aims to understand the role of stigma, shame, and biased beliefs in reducing demand for mental health treatments focused on depression.

The Entertainment, Boredom, and Labor Supply Study

The project explores how entertainment impacts youth labor preferences in LMICs, where access to entertainment is growing. This insight is vital for shaping labor market policies.

Understanding Demand for Diabetes Testing

The aim of the research is to better understand the behavioral factors that lead to surprisingly low demand for diabetes testing in India.

Women's Employment and Online Jobs

This project tests whether a flexible array of internet-mediated job opportunities could be an effective way to help women transition to external employment.