My research investigates how democratic institutions can better accommodate social diversity and internal mobility. I am particularly interested in how inclusive policies and everyday cross-group interactions contribute to civic trust, economic opportunity, and social cohesion.
In current projects, I study:
My broader research agenda connects political behavior, economic development, and public policy, drawing on large-scale administrative and survey data, natural experiments, and field-based collaborations with local partners.
Learning About Outgroups: The Impact of Broad Versus Deep
Interactions
w/ Anujit Chakraborty, Arkadev Ghosh, Matt Lowe
Forging Social Cohesion Through Mass Education
w/ Nicholas Kuipers, Drew Stommes
Poverty and Prejudice: Evidence from Myanmar
w/ Constant Courtin, Michael Weaver
House of Castes: A School-Level Experiment on Intergroup
Relations
w/ Arkadev Ghosh, Matt Lowe, Meghna Sinha Ray, Johny Tom Varghese
A Formal Model of Political Trolling
w/ Federica Izzo, Maria Titova
The Returns to Hiding Identity
w/ Anujit Chakraborty, Arkadev Ghosh, Matt Lowe
Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in
India
w/ Arkadev Ghosh, Prerna Kundu, Matt Lowe
Review of Economic Studies
(2025)
The Electoral Consequences of Mass Religious
Events
w/ Siddhartha Baral, Michael Weaver
American Journal of Political
Science (2024)
Election Cycles and Global Religious
Intolerance
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences (2022; v120/1)
Rethinking the Study of Electoral Politics in the Developing
World: Reflections on the Indian Case
w/ Adam Auerbach, Jennifer Bussell, Simon Chauchard, Francesca
Jensenius, Mark Schneider, Neelanjan Sircar, Pavithra Suryanarayan,
Tariq Thachil, Milan Vaishnav, Rahul Verma, Adam Ziegfeld
Perspectives on Politics (2022;
v20/n1; p250-64)
Overcoming the Political Exclusion of Migrants: Theory and
Experimental Evidence from India
w/ Nikhar Gaikwad
American Political Science
Review (2021; v115/n4; p1129–46)
Honorable mention for the 2022 Lawrence Longley Award by the
Representation and Electoral Systems Section of the American Political
Science Association, for the best article published in the previous
year
Do Politicians Discriminate Against Internal Migrants?
Evidence from Nationwide Field Experiments in India
w/ Nikhar Gaikwad
American Journal of Political
Science (2021; v65/n4; p790-806)
Does Electing Islamists Increase Religious Violence and
Intolerance?
w/ Nicholas Kuipers, Michael Weaver
British Journal of Political
Science (2021; v51/n3; p1340-47)
Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning: Lessons
from Metaketa I
co-edited w/ Thad Dunning, Guy Grossman, Susan Hyde, Macartan Humphreys,
Craig McIntosh
Cambridge University Press
(2019)
Winner of the 2019 Best Book in Experimental Research award by the
Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science
Association
Voter Information Campaigns and Political Accountability:
Cumulative Findings from a Preregistered Meta-analysis of Coordinated
Trials w/ Thad Dunning, Guy Grossman, Susan Hyde, Macartan
Humphreys, Craig McIntosh, Claire L. Adida, Eric Arias, Clara Bicalho,
Taylor C. Boas, Mark T. Buntaine, Simon Chauchard, Anirvan Chowdhury,
Jessica Gottlier, F. Daniel Hidalgo, Marcus Holmlund, Ryan Jablonski,
Eric Kramon, Horacio Larreguy, Malte Lierl, John Marshall, Gwyneth
McClendon, Marcus A. Melo, Daniel L. Nielson, Paula M. Pickering, Melina
R. Platas, Pablo Querubin, Pia Raffler, Neelanjan Sircar
Science Advances (2019;
v5/n7)
Secular Party Rule and Religious Violence in
Pakistan
w/ Niloufer Siddiqui
American Political Science
Review (2018; v112/n1; p49–67)
Do Parties Matter for Ethnic Violence?
w/ Michael Weaver, Steven Rosenzweig
Quarterly Journal of Political
Science (2016; v11/n3; p249–77)
The Majority-Minority Divide in Attitudes Toward Internal
Migration: Evidence from Mumbai
w/ Nikhar Gaikwad
American Journal of Political
Science (2017; v61/n2; p456–72)