I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at FLAME University, Pune, India.

On the labour-market side, I study how skills relate to one another and how these dependencies shape wages and occupational mobility. I also examine informality from two angles — the workers who hold informal jobs and the enterprises that operate informally. On inequality, I study how economic advantage is transmitted across generations and how people perceive the inequality they live with.

My current work spans a wide set of questions. On labour markets, I am studying how skill mismatch shapes wages and wellbeing where informal work dominates, whether early jobs launch or trap workers over their careers. On inequality, I examine intergenerational income mobility and its transmission channels, and how meritocratic beliefs and social trust shape people’s perceptions of fairness. Together, these strands ask how skills, jobs, and opportunity are distributed — and perceived — in a largely informal economy.

I have previously held positions at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (Bangalore), the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), and CHRIST University, Lavasa-Pune.

When not working, I am an avid reader of nonfiction — anything from mathematics and physics to AI and beyond. I love world cinema, am addicted to chess, and follow tennis, football, and Test cricket.