I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University where I am presently an affiliated scholar. I completed my PhD in the dual-Doctoral program in Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics & Demography at the Pennsylvania State University in 2016.
Prior to my PhD, I provided research assistance at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , Sloan Center on Aging and Work, Center for Retirement Research and did survey and field work at the Center for Microfinance, IFMR, (J-PAL South Asia). I completed my Master’s in Economics from the University of Mumbai, India and Boston College, MA, and my Bachelor’s in Economics and Statistics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, India.