Research support & recognition

Awards and Grants

Research funding, fellowships, and honors.

Research grants

2026: MIT J-PAL Learning for All Initiative & Conflict and Violence Initiative for project “Preventing Sexual Harassment in Schools: A Behavioral Targeting to Change Boys’ Attitudes and Improve Girls’ Outcomes” (with Sule Alan, Timo Kapelari, and Sakib Mahmood) – $319,573.50
2025: MIT J-PAL Humanitarian Protection Initiative for project “Caregiver Mental Health and Early Childhood Development in Conflict-Affected Settings: At-Scale Experimental Evidence from Colombia” (with Pinar Keskin, Andrés Moya Rodriguez, and Camila Andrea Galindo Pardo) – $211,000
2025: MIT J-PAL Learning for All Initiative for project “Changing Boys’ Attitudes to Improve Girls’ Academic and Socioemotional Outcomes” (with Sule Alan, Timo Kapelari, and Sakib Mahmood) – $75,000
2025: Arnold Ventures Grant for project “Understanding and Preventing Gender-Based Violence in the United States” (with Emily Nix and Shawn Ratcliff) – $376,107
2025: Handelsbanken Grant for project “Understanding and Preventing Gender-Based Violence in Sweden” (with Susan Niknami, Emily Nix, and Anna Sandberg Trolle-Lindgren) – $186,676
2025: Riksbanken Grant for project “Understanding and Preventing Gender-Based Violence in Sweden” (with Susan Niknami, Emily Nix, and Anna Sandberg Trolle-Lindgren) – $472,745
2024: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Grant number R21DA058849) “Spillover Effects of Policies Targeting Opioid Abuse on Intimate Partner Violence” (with Dhaval Dave and Pinar Keskin) – $438,703
2023: Sloan Foundation Grant for project “Reassessing the role and design of industrial policies for the U.S.” (with Joseph E. Stiglitz and Eric Verhoogen) – $46,004
2020: NBER Gender in the Economy Study Group Research Grants on Women, Victimization, and Covid-19 for project “COVID-19 Movement Restrictions and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the U.S.” (with Pinar Keskin and Silvia Prina) – $19,968
2020: Northeastern University Provost’s Office COVID-19 Crisis Seed Funding for project “COVID-19 Movement Restrictions and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the U.S.” (with Pinar Keskin and Silvia Prina) – $28,614
2020: Northeastern University CSSH COVID-19 Research and Engagement Development Initiative for project “COVID-19 Lockdown, Mental Health, and Subjective Wellbeing Evidence from Turkey” (with Onur Altindag and Pinar Keskin) – $8,000
2015 – 2016: Tier 1 Grant (“Democracy, Development, and Women’s Empowerment” with Val Moghadam and Catalina Herrera Almanza), Northeastern University – $50,000
2015 – 2016: Humanities Center Grant (with Val Moghadam, Bill Dickens, and Catalina Herrera Almanza), Northeastern University – $5,000
2014 – 2015: Research Development Initiative Award, Northeastern University – $3,750
2014 – 2015: Mutual Mentoring Advancement Program (with Catalina Herrera Almanza), Northeastern University – $3,000
2010: Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) Dissertation Research Grant

Awards and fellowships

2023: World Bank Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing Award
2020: Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship on the theme of “Disruption and Displacement,” Northeastern University
2019: World Bank Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing Award
2018: World Bank Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing Award
2017: World Bank Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing Award
2015: CeMENT Fellow, Organized by Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP).
2013 – 2016: National Science Foundation DITE Fellowship
2012 – 2014: Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought Postdoctoral Fellowship
2012: Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), Young Scholar 2010 African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) Fellow
2004 – 2009: Graduate School Teaching Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst