I am a recent Ph.D. from the Economics department at New York University.

Teaching

Since Spring 2010, I am working as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at the Queens College of the City University of New York, where my teaching assignments include Price Theory, Introductory Microeconomics, Industrial Organization and Macroeconomic Analysis.

I am committed to a career in teaching and research. I'm a teaching generalist, experienced in teaching core undergraduate courses in both Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. My research interests and graduate coursework experience make me well-qualified to teach advanced elective courses on applied topics like Economic Development, Public Economics, Economics of Environment, International Economics or Political Economy. Additionally, I am keen to teach advanced theoretical electives like Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Information Economics or Managerial Economics.

A comprehensive teaching portfolio, containing a summary of my previous teaching responsibilities, summary of my teaching evaluations, the statement of my teaching philosophy and sample syllabi, can be accessed here.

Research

I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on the political economics of development expenditure in India. Prof. William R. Easterly chaired my dissertation committee, while Prof. Shanker Satyanath and Prof. Leonard Wantchekon were my co-supervisors.

One part of the dissertation analyzes the strategic implications of expenditure cycles for national legislators in India. The other part identifies electoral cycles in India's public sector bank credit to the priority sector and analyzes its implication for incidence of property crimes.

My dissertation makes an important contribution to the field in terms of the datasets that it utilizes. For both the parts, I had to build up the datasets from scratch i.e., the results are driven by hitherto unused information on the Indian Economy . The dataset compilation required manually tabulating the information from sources which are not machine readable. My work makes available for the first time information that could not have been drawn upon earlier by other researchers of the Indian economy. 

For a more detailed summary, please find my dissertation's abstract here.
For a description of my current research agenda, please refer to my research statement here.

My job market paper "Electoral Incentives and Strategic Capture of Public Programs - Evidence from India",  is available here.

I am also very much interested in policy analyst and/or consultant positions in the private and/or the non-profit sector(s), where my experience of data-driven analysis of public programs will provide a useful skill input.

Finally, here is my CV, again.

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