Welcome! 

I am a PhD candidate in Public Policy (Economics track) at Harvard University. My research focuses on questions related to education, migration and state capacity in developing countries.

I am a graduate student affiliate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, at the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and at the Center for International Development at Harvard University.

I completed my Master of Arts in Economic Policy from Boston University (BU) and graduated with a Bachelor and Master of Technology in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.

Before starting my graduate studies, I have worked as an RA at EPoD, BU and NBER in the Boston-Cambridge area.

You can find my CV here.

You can reach me at nikhil_kumar1@g.harvard.edu