I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Eckerd College and obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. My research focuses on utilizing experimental methods to analyze various aspects of cryptocurrencies. I mainly teach courses in Microeconomics, but enjoy adding concepts such as Game Theory and Law and Economics.
Pradeep Kumar Choudhury is Assistant Professor of Economics at Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India and a research affiliate (2024–25) at South Asia Institute, Harvard University, where he was also a visiting research fellow for 2023–24. He was also the China-India Visiting Scholar Fellow for 2021-22, Ashoka University. His research spans the field of education economics, including K–12 and post-secondary. His recent work focuses on measurement and explanation of learning inequality, and its interaction with climate, technology and early-life decisions. His most recent collaborative study with University of Pennsylvania and University of Copenhagen examines how in-class smartphone bans affect student outcomes in India. Pradeep’s research has published in several peer-reviewed journals. Pradeep received his masters in economics from University of Hyderabad and Ph.D. in education economics from National University of Educational Planning and Administration in 2013.
Dr. Prasanthi Ramakrishnan is a labor economist, with her research interests at the intersection of Household Economics, Health Economics and Entrepreneurship. She focuses on different types of inequality in the labor market, either by gender or by race, and aims to understand the mechanisms causing these inequalities using cutting-edge microeconometric methods. Her research agenda explores the importance of incorporating education, marriage, and decisions within the household in analyzing changes to the social security system, a system that treats married and single households differently. Her agenda also studies differences in gender and race amongst entrepreneurs and to understand policy prescriptions to boost entrepreneurship, as well as incentives to take up health insurance amongst the poor and rich.
I am a behavioral economist with a broad interest in studying the labor market and the provision of public goods.
I am a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Schaeffer Center at the University of Southern California. I have two verticals of research - in the US and in India. In the US, my current research focuses on evaluating the efficacy of Medicare Advantage (Part-C) especially as it pertains to patients of alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). In India, I am working on designing and testing scaleable interventions to improve child health (specifically improving ORS prescription rates for child diarrhea).
I completed my PhD at the Pardee RAND Graduate School in July, 2023. For my job market paper, I designed and evaluated a randomized controlled trial using the standardized patient method to identify caste and religion based discrimination in healthcare delivery among private providers in Bihar, India. Simultaneously, I worked on another large scale RCT that was aimed to identify barriers to ORS prescription for child diarrhea.
My primary areas of study are global health, health systems and health equity. I have experience using a diverse set of methodologies in these areas including RCTs, agent-based models, simulation models, and quasi-experimental methods using claims data.
I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. My Ph.D. is from the University of California Berkeley's Haas School of Business. My research lies at the intersection of development economics, behavioral economics, and political economy.
Soham Sahoo is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He is currently also a Visiting Fellow at International Inequalities Institute – London School of Economics and Political Science and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn. His research interest is broadly in development economics, with a focus on education, labour, and political economy. Soham holds a PhD in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. Before joining IIM Bangalore, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Economics, University of Goettingen, Germany. He has also held visiting positions at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies – University of Goettingen, and Institute for Employment Research – University of Warwick.
I am an assistant professor in economics at Binghamton University (SUNY), working on topics related to family economics, marriage, and education. I obtained my PhD from Rice University in 2022 and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) from 2022-2023.
Mu Zhang is an assistant professor of Economics in University of Michigan. He received his BA in Economics and B.Sc. in Mathematics from Tsinghua University, and his MA and PhD in Economics from Princeton University. He is a microeconomic theorist. His research focuses on decision theory and behavioral economics.
I’m a Professor of Policy and Quantitative Methods at Queen Mary University of London, in the School of Business and Management.
My research analyses how to overcome the most significant barriers to economic development. I am particularly interested in three of these barriers:
-Violent conflict
-The persistent effects of inequalities in wealth
-Poor economic governance
I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge (King’s College).
I’ve been at Queen Mary University of London since 2015. I previously taught and held research positions at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford and the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
Other current affiliations:
Member, Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR)
Member, Oxford-LSE Improving Institutions for pro-poor Growth (iiG)
Member, Economics of Inequality and Poverty Analysis (EQUALITAS)
Member, Equity and Development Research Group (EDReG)
My research has been published among others in Journal of Conflict Resolution, World Development, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Development Studies, Development Policy Review, Journal of Economic Geography, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Public Money and Management, among many others.