Anjali Adukia

Published and Working Papers

"What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children’s Books" (with A. Eble, E. Harrison, H.B. Runesha, T. Szasz) (2023, The Quarterly Journal of Economics)    [Replication Files]         [Slides]         [Twitter Thread]         [Research Brief]         [AI Research Brief (SSN)]         [Video]         [Poster]         [Interactive Figures]         [Google Case Study]        [Brookings Chalkboard]         [IZA Article]       [Press: Time Magazine, School Library Journal, Wall Street Journal, Code Together, Inequalitalks, FutureEd, The 74, Columbia Daily Tribune, ParentData, New York Times, The Economist, Scientific American]         [Recognition: Named one of the ten most significant education studies of 2021 by George Lucas Foundation's Edutopia, Received the 2021 Early Career Award from the Education Policy Collaborative, Received the first place poster prize at APPAM 2021, Received the 2021 Google Customer Award for Education and the 2021 Google Customer Award for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Received the 2023 MindBytes Data Visualization Award, Featured on Best of #econtwitter]

"From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice" (with B. Feigenberg, F. Momeni) (2024, Revision Invited at American Economic Review)  [Project Webpage]  [Research Brief]   [Short Video]   [Video]   [Slides]  [Press: Washington Post, Education Week, Chalkbeat, WGN TV, WGN (article), WBEZ, WBEZ Reset, Politico Playbook, The Pie podcast, BET, Outside the Loop Radio, Block Club Chicago, Chicago Sun Times (1), Chicago Sun Times (2), WTTW, Restorative Works! Podcast, Hechinger Report, USA Today, Gothamist]

"Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Local Public Services in India: Evidence from 1.5m Neighborhoods" (with S. Asher ⓡ K. Jha ⓡ P. Novosad ⓡ B. Tan) (December 2023, Revision Invited at American Economic Review)  [Summary]         [Fact Sheet]         [Twitter Summary]        [Press: The Wire, The Indian Express, The Print, GK Today, Counterview, Hindustan Times, Article14]

"Reparative Ripple Effects? Exploring the Impacts of Sibling Exposure to School-Based Restorative Justice" (with B. Feigenberg, F. Momeni) (2024, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings)

"Tales and Tropes: Gender Roles from Word Embeddings in a Century of Children’s Books" (with P. Chiril, C. Christ, A. Das, A. Eble, E. Harrison, H.B. Runesha) (2022, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING))  [Video]   [Poster]   [Slides]

"Economic and Social Development along the Urban-Rural Continuum: New Opportunities to Inform Policy"
(with A. Cattaneo, D. Brown, L. Christiaensen, D.K. Evans, A. Haakenstad, T. McMenomy, M. Partridge, S. Vaz, D. Weiss) (2022, World Development)  [Blog Post with D.K. Evans: Most Out-of-School Children are in Rural Areas. Education Systems Must Serve Them Better.]

“Portrayals of Race and Gender: Sentiment in 100 Years of Children's Literature” (with C. Christ, A. Das, A. Raj) (2022, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (ACM COMPASS '22))  [Video]

"Measuring Representation of Race, Gender, and Age in Children's Books: Face Detection and Feature Classification in Illustrated Images" (with T. Szasz, E. Harrison, P-J. Liu, P-C. Lin, H.B. Runesha) (2022, Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV))   [Poster]    [Video]

"Spillover Impacts on Education from Employment Guarantees" (2022, Education Finance and Policy)  [Takeaway (one-pager)]

"Religion and Sanitation Practices"
(with M. Alsan, K. Babiarz, J. Goldhaber-Fiebert, and L. Prince)  (2021, World Bank Economic Review)

"Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction"
(with S. Asher and P. Novosad) (2020, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics)   [Slides]

"Sanitation and Education" (2017, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics)   [Slides]

Other Writings: Policy Briefs, Op-Eds, Blog Posts

Road connectivity and rural economic development: Evidence from India’s rural roads programme (with S. Asher and Paul Novosad), VoxDev, July 2022.

India's National Education Policy: A need to look beyond the classroom to improve results, VoxDev, November 2019.

How sanitation facilities in schools can improve educational outcomes, Ideas for India, August 2018.

Promoting Education through School Sanitation, World Bank Development Impact, March 2014.

"The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Tertiary Education World Wide" (with B. Long) World Bank, September 2009.

"The Broadmoor Project New Orleans Community Engagement Initiative: Progress Report" (with D. Ahlers, M. Blakley, L. Cole, M. El Dahshan, A. Hodari, H. Ko, J. Maeso, A. Noble, D. Radcliffe, M. Richards, C. Valentine, A. Van, D. Walsh, A. Watson, A. Woods, C. Wood, J. Wright, K. Yang). Harvard Kennedy School - Broadmoor Initiative, March 2007.