She has worked with IMFR since 2009 and does research broadly on social insurance, public finance, and development economics. Dr. Mukherjee has worked with Jeremy Tobacman and Shawn Cole on a large, randomized controlled field experiment on rainfall-indexed insurance in Gujarat, India. She has also conducted a framing experiment on micropension demand among below-poverty-line households in Uttar Pradesh, India with Olivia S. Mitchell. Her most recent project involved a field experiment around chlorine tablet distribution in urban slum areas around Hyderabad. This effort was a collaboration with Camille Boudot testing novel marketing methods using lessons from behavioral economics. Dr. Mukherjee has a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.