His research interests include economic development and behavioral economics with particular focuses on poverty reduction, gender equality, domestic violence and sustainable development. He is particularly interested to examine the functional mechanisms of microfinance institutions and estimate its effect on the borrowers’ well-being, especially in South Asia. His work emphasizes the use of real-world evidence to test economic models, often through large-scale field experiments in Bangladesh. Current projects include examinations of: methodological challenges related to assessing the impact of microfinance, in particular the possibility of using so-called regression discontinuity methods; reproductive behavior and economic impacts of microfinance; child labor and schooling responses to access to microfinance.