Working Papers
Patna, India
Working Papers
[7] “(When) Does Informal Labor Close Political Gender Gaps? Theory and Evidence from Urban India” Revise and resubmit at Studies in Comparative International Development.
[6] “Toward a Local View of Ethnic Polarization and Political Mobilization: Evidence from Urban India” (with Jeremy Spater) Under review.
[5] “The Political and Economic Determinants of Slum Evictions: Evidence from Patna, India” (with Harlan Downs-Tepper & Mateo Villamizar-Chaparro) Under review.
[4] “Gender Stereotypes Across Electoral Contexts” (with Anna Gunderson, Nichole Bauer, and Annie Sheehan-Dean) Under review.
[3] “The Gender Digital Divide and Gender Gaps in Collective Action” (with Tiffany Barnes, Jakana Thomas & Jingwen Wu) Under review.
[2] “Where Women Are Also Clients: Gender, Informality and Collective Mobilization in Urban Slums” Draft available upon request.
[1] “Gatekeeping Women’s Property Rights: Evidence from a Land Titling Program in Urban Mozambique” (with Heather Huntington) Draft in preparation.
Select Ongoing and Early Stage Projects
Negotiating Informality, Negotiating Citizenship: How Neighborhood Characteristics Shape Political Behavior in Urban Slums (book project based on dissertation, which received Best Dissertation Award in Urban and Local Politics, American Political Science Association (2022))
Claim Making Strategies Across India’s Informal Settlements
Networks and Neighborhoods: Toward a Two-Dimensional Explanation of Development in Urban Slums
Exploring Gender Gaps in Preferences, Political Behavior, and Leadership in Indian Slums (supported by The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network)
(Informal) Home Ownership, Clientelism, and the Urban Tenure Continuum (with Tanu Kumar)
Vulnerability to Climate Change and Preferences for Policy Responses in Indian Slums (with Alicia Cooperman)
Digital Gender Gaps and Political Gender Gaps in the Global South (with Tiffany Barnes, Jakana Thomas, and Jingwen Wu)
Citizen-led Expansion and Informality in India’s Urban Peripheries (with Adam Auerbach and Tanu Kumar)
Middle Class Attitudes Toward Urban Slum Residents: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines (with Dean Dulay)
Intrahousehold Preferences Over Women’s Labor in the Informal Urban Economy: Experimental Evidence from India (with Rashi Sabherwal and Erik Wibbels)