PhD Journey

Dissertation Title: ===== Essays on Infrastructure and Economic Development: A Theory and Evidence from Land Markets in India Dissertation Committee: ===== 1. Professor Devesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins SAIS 2. Professor Shoumitro Chatterhee, Assistant Professor of International Economics, Johns Hopkins SAIS 3. Professor Filipe Campante, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University (SAIS and Carey Business School) 4. Professor Ritam Chaurey, Assistant Professor of International Economics, Johns Hopkins SAIS 5. Dr. Arvind Subramanian, Former Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India Research in Progress: ===== 1. 'Land Markets and Economic Development: Evaluating the Long-term Persistent Effects of Scheduled Areas in India' using geographic Regressions Discontinuity Design. 2. 'Bridges and Cities: Measuring the impact of road bridges on urban economic geography' using market access approach. 3. 'NIMBYism and Energy Transition: A new approach to estimating human displacement costs of big infrastructure projects' using NLP and high-resolution satellite imagery. Research Experience: ===== 1. Graduate Research Assistant, Professor Devesh Kapur, Johns Hopkins SAIS 2. Graduate Research Assistant, Professor Pravin Krishna, Johns Hopkins SAIS Select Term Papers: ===== 1. 'Temples of Modern India: Estimating cost and time overruns in large irrigation projects in India', Term Paper for India’s Political Economy Challenges course, Johns Hopkins SAIS, 2022 2. 'Flying Dragon v. Hoping Elephant: Comparing the political economy of land governance in China and India', Term Paper for China’s Political Economy in Transition course, Johns Hopkins SAIS, 2022 3. 'Curse of Aid: Evidence from NATO-led road development in Afghanistan', Term Paper for Development Strategies course, Johns Hopkins SAIS, 2021 4 'Origins of Democracy: Tracing waves of democratization', Term Paper for Qualitative Research Methods course, Johns Hopkins SAIS, 2020