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- News: “‘Who the messenger is matters’: Cultural leaders can positively influence population growth,” University of Notre Dame, March 2025.
- News: “Fighting poverty while preserving forests: new research aims to balance economic gains and environmental conservation,” Keough School of Global Affairs, March 2025.
- Video: “Did colonialism really cause poverty?” Discover Economics and the CAGE Research Centre series on “Why isn’t the whole world developed?”, September 2024.
- Podcast: Faguet, Jean-Paul, Lakshmi Iyer and Sarmishta Pal. “The growing wave of decentralisation: Comparative evidence from developing countries.” Ideas for India Conversation, November 2023.
- Podcast: “Democracy and political participation in India,” interviewed by Tim Phillips, CEPR VoxTalks, August 2023.
- Podcast: “Women’s Economic Empowerment,” interviewed by Grace Ortuzar, Kellogg Institute Global Stage podcast series, August 2023.
- Blog post: “Does being local matter? Administrative decentralisation and human development,” with Latika Chaudhary, January 2023.
- News: “New Research Lab Aims to Alleviate Global Poverty and Foster Inclusive Economic Growth,” Kellogg Institute for International Studies, September 2022.
- News: “Tracing the journeys of India’s women economists and policymakers,” Scroll.in, April 2022.
- Press release on collaboration with United WE on appointing women to civic boards and commissions, March 2022.
- Podcast: “The Role of History in Shaping India’s Development,” (with Bishnupriya Gupta), Ideas for India Conversation, February 2022.
- Blog post: “Upholding Human Dignity Amid COVID-19 and Economic Collapse,” (with Angelina Soriano Nuncio, Eduardo Pages Jimenez and Imre Gabor Holtzer), Keough School Dignity and Development, July 2021.
- Blog post: “Does the Right to Vote Affect Political Behaviour? Historical evidence from India,” (with Guilhem Cassan and Rinchan Mirza), Ideas for India, November 2020.
- Podcast: “Understanding the Ideas Behind the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics.” All Else Equal, September 2020.
- Podcast: “Where Are the Indian Female Politicians?” VoxDev, May 2019.
- Profile: Women Lead 2018, University of Notre Dame.
- Video: Economist Lakshmi Iyer on the determinants and consequences of women’s political participation, University of Notre Dame, October 2017.