I am a Post-doctoral Fellow at Boston University Global Development Policy Center. I am part of the Program on Women’s Empowerment Research of the Human Capital Initiative, directed by Mahesh Karra.

I am an applied microeconomist working on the determinants and implications of gender norms and gender-based violence. My research interests lie at the intersection of Economic History, Development Economics, Political Economy and Health Economics. 

I graduated with my PhD in 2024 from the Aix-Marseille School of Economics under the supervision of Renaud Bourlès and Roberta Ziparo.

In my Job Market Paper, we investigate the impact of a unique coerced male sterilization program introduced in India in 1976 on the rise of violence. Using various household surveys and newly digitised historical data sources, we exploit the geographical variation in coercion intensity, and we find that exposure to this program led to an increase in violent crime targeting women, persistent over time.

References: Siwan Anderson, Renaud Bourlès, Pauline Grosjean, Mahesh Karra, Nathan Nunn and Roberta Ziparo.

I am also working on i) female entrepreneurship and gender norms, ii) education and gender norms iii) contraceptive concordance and access to contraception and iv) menstrual hygiene.

I was visiting UNSW Economics from March to April 2023, invited by Prof. Pauline Grosjean,  the Vancouver School of Economics of the University of British Columbia in the Fall of 2022, invited by Prof. Siwan Anderson and the Centre of Human Sciences in New Delhi from January to February 2022.