Anjali Adukia

Examines the impacts on educational choices of 115,000 new roads built under India’s flagship road construction program. Finds that children stay in school longer and perform better on standardized exams. Mentions treatment heterogeneity supports predictions of a standard human capital investment model: enrollment increases are largest where nearby labor markets offer the highest returns to education.

Explores whether the absence of school-sanitation infrastructure impedes educational attainment, particularly among pubescent-age girls, using a national Indian school latrine-construction initiative and administrative school-level data. Mentions how school-latrine construction substantially increases enrollment of pubescent-age girls, though predominately when providing sex-specific latrines.

Impacts on Education from Employment Guarantees using large-scale administrative data and household survey data, I estimate precise spillover impacts on education that reject substantive declines in children’s education from the rollout of India’s employment-guarantee program (MGNREGA). Mentions these negative spillovers are inexpensive to counteract, and small compared to immediate effects of MGNREGA on rural employment and poverty alleviation.

Introduces tools to convert images to data, along with established text analysis methods, to measure the representation of race, gender, and age in children’s books commonly found in US schools and homes over the last century. Provides a view into the "black box" of education through children’s books in US schools and homes, highlighting what has changed and what has endured.