Research Experience

1. [Current Employment]: Research Associate

Organisation: Center For Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL), Reserve Bank of India

PIs: Dr. John Stachurski & Dr. Matthew McKay

Organisation: QuantEcon

Design and develop an open, accessible undergraduate economics course using Pyodide and WebAssembly for real-time simulation and code execution, teaching scientific computing to tackle issues like inequality, resource scarcity, and climate change.

PIs: Dr. Paul Novosad

Organisation: Development Data Lab

Cleaning and writing the codes to incorporate the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER, 2007-2024) for India into the Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India (SHRUG) Dataset by Development Data Lab.

PIs: Dr. Nirupama Kulkarni, Dr. Satyajit Chatterjee, & Dr. Ashwini Deshpande

Paper Title: A project on Culture and Debt in India

Analyzing emigration patterns and debt holdings across different castes, religions, and social strata using the CMIE-CPHS dataset, with a focus on state-wise and district-wise variations in India.
Investigating loan-taking behavior among various castes and religions, exploring the influence of cultural norms and traditions on these financial decisions.

PI: Dr. Bhaskar Dutta

Replicating the methodologies of a Journal of Development Economics paper using the Annual Status of Education Reports Data (ASER) at the state level.

PIs: Dr. Ashwini Deshpande & Dr. Anisha Sharma

Paper Title: “Punishment and Crime: Impact of Death Penalty on Local Crime Rates in India”

PIs: Dr. Gautham Udupa & Dr. Vidhya Soundararajan

Converting several Stata codes and writing MATLAB equivalents for a project.
Reviewing RBI circulars and identifying important notifications related to Priority Sector Lending in India.
Reviewing literature on developmental factors that affect stock market participation and presenting them during the internship at CAFRAL.