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Subha Mani is an Associate Professor of economics and a Research Associate at the Center for International Policy Studies at Fordham University. Subha also holds a Research Affiliate position at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She has her B.A. (honors) degree in economics from Delhi University, a Masters degree in economics from Mumbai University and a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Southern California. Her areas of specialisation are development economics, applied econometrics, applied microeconomics and field experiments. Subha’s main area of interest is human capital accumulation. Her work investigates issues including - causes of chronic malnourishment, potential for catch-up in health and education, policies that foster catching up, and the interrelationship between early life nutrition and interventions on later life outcomes. Her work also quantifies the economic and social returns from participating in vocational education programmes in developing countries. Subha has conducted fieldwork in India. Her scholarly work has been published in the Journal of Development Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of African Economies and Economic and Political Weekly. Her research has received funding from Fordham University, Monash University, Indian School of Business, International Growth Center – India, 3ie Impact Evaluation, and Grand Challenges Canada. http://faculty.fordham.edu/smani/smani/Welcome.html