Ajinkya Keskar is currently a Ph.D. student at Rice University. Before pursuing his Ph.D., he received a Master's in economics at the University of Wisconsin Madison and a Bachelor's in Electronics and Communications Engineering from PES University, Bangalore, India. Ajinkya's research interest is primarily development economics, focusing on the economics of the family, gender, and marriage markets. Some of his recent work looks at the effect of marriage transfers on women's post-marital outcomes in India.