I am a Research Author at the Department of Economics at Monk Prayogshala, a not-for-profit academic research organization based in Mumbai. My work at Prayogshala focuses on using experimental methods to understand economic decision-making in the Indian context. Areas of interest include charitable giving, intra-household bargaining, and social norms. I also teach economics as Visiting Faculty at NMIMS's Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts (JDSoLA), Sarla and Anil Modi School of Economics (SAMSoE), the School of Business Management (SBM), and the Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics (MDAE), both in Mumbai. I have previously served as In-Resident Economist at the Internet Society (working on measuring the economic impacts of internet shutdowns, the economics of peering, and the value of encryption) and Deputy Director of Behavioural Science at BIAS Inc, a New Delhi-based behavioural science think tank.   

I received a joint PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) and Monash University Research Academy (IITB-Monash) in Mumbai, India and Melbourne, Australia. Previously, I completed an MSc in Economics at the University of Warwick, UK. My PhD research focused on understanding the determinants of currency usage in India as well as assessing various currency management and supply policies. My advisors were Pushpa Trivedi (IIT-B), Greg Markowsky (Monash), and Mehmet Ozmen (Uni Melbourne).