INTERVIEWS, MEDIA & POPULAR WRITING

Where are the Women in India’s Labor Force?, The Juggernaut, September 29, 2021.

Inclusive Innovator: Rohini Pande of Yale University, International Monetary Fund Finance & Development, Summer 2021.

Can Democracy Work for the Poor?, Distinguished Lecture Series Sam Houston State University, April 19, 2021.

The Case for Democracy Week: Economic Development, V-Dem Institute, March 22, 2021.

Public disclosure as a political incentive: Evidence from municipal elections in India, VoxDev, February 24, 2021.

Prof. Rohini Pande on Can democracy work for the poor?, presented at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad – IIMA, February 18, 2021.

ET Evoke: Empowering Her – ‘Financial inclusion, peers, role models empower women’, The Economic Times, November 7, 2020.

Local governments lack resources to tackle Covid-19, Nepali Times, October 6, 2020.

COVID-19 funding in federal systems: Lessons from Nepal, (with Michael Callen, Trilochan Pokharel, and Deepak Singhania) International Growth Centre Blog, August 27, 2020.

In times of pandemic, PDS shops should provide rations to all, (with Simone Schaner and Charity Troyer Moore) The Indian Express, July 23, 2020.

Using technology to save lives during India’s monsoon season, (with Micah Berman, Maulik Jagnani, Sella Nevo, and Ofir Reich) Yale Economic Growth Center, July 2, 2020.

Food before cash: Because PMJDY cash transfers will exclude many of India’s poorest, (with Simone Schaner and Charity Troyer Moore) The Indian Express, May 11, 2020.

Measuring the effects of lockdowns in India and Nepal, Yale News, May 4, 2020.

The budget relegated women’s economic participation to secondary importance, (with Charity Troyer Moore) The Indian Express, February 14, 2020.

What happens when investments targeting women’s microbusinesses go to men?, (with(with Arielle Bernhardt, Erica Field, and Natalia Rigol) VoxDev, January 27, 2020.

Altering social norms with Yale economist Rohini Pande, Yale News, January 9, 2020.

Empowering women through direct digital wage payments, VoxDev, November 4, 2019.

Gates wants development done differently. Here’s how., Devex, September 17, 2019.

Who will lead the ‘next frontier’ of governance funding?, Devex, August 9, 2019.

Ending global poverty: Why money is not enough, interview on VoxDev Podcast, June 7, 2019.

A New Home for Extreme Poverty: Middle-Income Countries, (with Vestal McIntyre and Lucy Page), in The New York Times, January 28, 2019.

Press Briefing: An Economic Strategy for India, University of Chicago Center in Delhi, December 2018.

A Tough Call: Understanding barriers to and impacts of women’s mobile phone adoption in India. (with Giorgia Barboni, Erica Field, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, and Charity Troyer Moore), October 2018.

How India Can Use Better Data and Regulations to Stop Industries from Choking its Cities, (with Michael Greenstone, Anant Sudarshan, and Santosh Harish) in The Indian Express, August 13, 2018.

What Happens When Investments Targeting Women’s Microbusinesses go to Men? (with Arielle Bernhardt, Erica Field, and Natalia Rigol) in Ideas for India, May 2, 2018.

Skill India Can Retain Women in Workforce. (with Charity Troyer-Moore and Soledad Artiz-Prillaman) in Business Standard, March 17, 2018. Full Text.

The Mobile Phone Gender Gap: Why does it matter and what can we do? (with Simone Schaner) in The Indian Express, December 14, 2017.

Give Women Credit, (with Erica Field) in Ideas for India, November 23, 2017.

Clean Energy: Maharashtra to rate industries by density of emissions, (with Michael Greenstone, Nicholas Ryan, and Anant Sudarshan) in Business Standard, June 26, 2017.

Star Power: Maharashtra starts rating industries by emissions, (with Michael Greenstone, Nicholas Ryan, and Anant Sudarshan) in India Spend, June 26, 2017.

Getting India’s Women into the Workforce: Time for a smart approach, in Ideas for India, March 10, 2017.

For a House to Become a Home, in The Indian Express, January 30, 2017.

Making Microfinance More Effective, (with Dean Karlan, Rebecca Mann, Jake Kendall, Tavneet Suri, and Jonathan Zinman) in Harvard Business Review, October 5, 2016.

April wasn’t January, (with Anant Sudarshan, Santosh Harish, Michael Greenstone) in The Indian Express, May 13, 2016.

How to Get India’s Women Working? First, Let Them Out Of The House, (with Eric Dodge and Jennifer Johnson) in India Spend, April 9, 2016.

Five Key Lessons About Women and Work in India, (with Charity Moore and Jennifer Johnson) in India Spend, March 8, 2016.

To Cut Delhi’s Air Pollution, Pinpoint The Source (with Eric Dodge), in India Spend, January 19, 2016.

Yes, Delhi, it worked (with Michael Greenstone, Santosh Harish, Anant Sudarshan) in The Indian Express, January 19, 2016.

Impersonal government is good (with Charity Moore and Eric Dodge) in The Indian Express, December 30, 2015.

Delhi November air quality threatened by Punjab farm fires (with Anish Sugathan) in Business Standard, November 24, 2015.

To get the right policy, ask the right question (with Charity Moore and Eric Dodge) in Alliance for Useful Evidence, October 14, 2015.

Closing India’s Implementation Gap on Pollution Control (with Robert Rosenbaum and Kevin Rowe) in Fair Observer, August 24, 2015.

Why Aren’t India’s Women Working? (with Charity Troyer-Moore) in New York Times Op-Ed, August, 23, 2015.

Data poverty makes it harder to fix real poverty. That’s why the UN should push countries to gather and share data in Washington Post Op-Ed, July 20, 2015.

In Indian Villages, the Power of a Powerful Woman in New York Times Op-Ed, January 14, 2015.

Keeping Women Safe: Addressing the root causes of violence against women in South Asia in Harvard Magazine, January 2015.

This Transaction is Still Incomplete (with Erica Field, Charity Troyer-Moore, Natalia Rigol and Simone Schaner) Indian Express Op-Ed, October 24, 2014.

The Youngest are Hungriest (with Seema Jayachandran) New York Times Op-Ed, August 8, 2014.

Estimating the Loss of Life Expectancy Due to PM in India (with Michael Greenstone, Janhavi Nilekani, and Anish Sugathan) Appendix to New York Times Opinion Piece, February 9, 2014.

Designing Microfinance for the Borrower’s Well-Being in the Center for Microfinance Inclusion Blog, July 19, 2013.

Lifting the Curtain on Corruption in Developing Countries (with Benjamin Olken) in VoxEU.org, January 21, 2012.

Making Environmental Audits Honest (with Michael Greenstone, Nicholas Ryan and Esther Duflo) in Indian Express, August 5, 2011.

An Act of Commission on Emissions (with Michael Greenstone) in Indian Express, May 2, 2011.

Daring to be Different – and Right (with Michael Greenstone) in Indian Express, December 22, 2010.

Microcredit is not the Enemy (with Abhijit Banerjee, Pranab Bardhan, Esther Duflo, Erica Field, Dean Karlan, Asim Khwaja, Dilip Mookherjee and Raghuram Rajan) in Financial Times, December 13, 2010.

Help Microfinance, Don’t Kill It (with Abhijit Banerjee, Pranab Bardhan, Esther Duflo, Erica Field, Dean Karlan, Asim Khwaja, Dilip Mookherjee and Raghuram Rajan) in Indian Express, November 26, 2010.

Leading by Example (with Esther Duflo) in Indian Express, March 18, 2010.

Women in a Woeful World – Coming to Terms with Oppression in Harvard Magazine, September-October 2009.

Great Ideas, Great Minds – People’s Empowerment (with Alexandra Cirone) from “30 Ideas to Change India” in India Today, September 25, 2008.

Acche Chuno? (with Abhijit V. Banerjee and Felix Su) in Hindustan Times, April 21, 2009.

Why Vote? (with Abhijit V. Banerjee, Selvan Kumar, and Felix Su) in Hindustan Times, April 13, 2009.

Is Case the Future of Politics? (with Abhijit V. Banerjee and Felix Su) in Hindustan Times, April 4, 2009.

Can Political Affirmative Action for Women Reduce Gender Bias? (with Lori Beaman, Raghab Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, and Petia Topalova) in Vox, January 8, 2009.