His areas of interest include Applied Microeconomics, Experimental and Development Economics. He has received a master's degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1999 and completed his Ph.D. in Economics at the Pennsylvania State University in 2006. His dissertation focused on how the price path of goods like airline tickets change as the proportion of high valuation buyers change and on how public projects are delayed when the cost of contribution gets reduced as the number of prior contributors increase. He has published in the Journal of Quantitative Economics and the Southern Economic Journal (forthcoming).