I study political institutions, political economy and development, with a regional focus on South Asia. In Fall 2026, I will be joining as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in August 2026, with a Masters in Statistics.

My research program in political economy focuses on access to justice, accountability, and judicial delays in India. I also study the broader political economy of health and development, and develop methods at the intersection of causal inference and machine learning to examine heterogeneous treatment effects. Across projects, I leverage natural experiments, spatio-temporal models, qualitative interviews and machine learning; ultimately, my work seeks to understand how the rule of law is maintained, and the determinants of effective institutions.

My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation’s Law and Science Dissertation Grant, APSA’s Early Career Experimental Fellowship; and the Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship, the Elections Research Center and the Institute for Regional and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I am affiliated with the Center for High Throughput Computing and frequently leverage scientific computing to improve performance of tasks in the research pipeline.

To get in touch with me, please email at bhogale@wisc.edu