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Anant Sudarshan is a faculty member at the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick and a Senior Fellow at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). Before joining the University of Warwick, he was the South-Asia Director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).
Prior to this he was a Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He works at the intersection of energy policy, behavioral science, environmental economics, and engineering. He holds undergraduate and masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) and Stanford University respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering, focusing on energy economics, from Stanford University in March 2011. His doctoral research explored the determinants of residential energy consumption and the role California efficiency policies had in reducing energy intensity in the state. He has also carried out field trials to understand the effects of providing real time electricity consumption feedback to households. This work is part of a broader agenda aimed at understanding how different incentive structures - both financial and behavioral - can be used to change household energy behaviors. His present research includes an ambitious project to design and evaluate a pilot emissions trading program for Indian industry in partnership with India’s Ministry for Environment and Forests.
Posts by Anant Sudarshan
मानव और पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र स्वास्थ्य किस प्रकार से आपस में जुड़े हुए हैं: भारत में गिद्धों की संख्या में गिरावट से साक्ष्य
भारत के किसान परंपरागत रूप से अपने मृत मवेशियों के शवों के निपटान हेतु गिद्धों पर भरोसा करते आये हैं। किन्तु आकस्मिक विषाक्तता के चलते भारत में गिद्धों की संख्या कम हो जाने के कारण मृत मवेशियों के शवो...
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Eyal Frank
Anant Sudarshan
16 फ़रवरी, 2023
- लेख
How human and ecosystem health are intertwined: Evidence from vulture population collapse in India
Livestock farmers in India have historically relied on vultures to dispose of dead animals. However, the collapse of vulture populations in India due to accidental poisoning has prevented the scavengi...
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Eyal Frank
Anant Sudarshan
18 January, 2023
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Learnings from emissions trade in India
India, and many developing nations in other parts of the world take solace in the U-shaped Kuznets curve: a belief in this inverse relationship between income and environmental quality results in not ...
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Michael Greenstone
Anant Sudarshan
20 September, 2022
- Videos
Learnings from emissions trade in India
India, and many developing nations in other parts of the world take solace in the U-shaped Kuznets curve: a belief in this inverse relationship between income and environmental quality results in not ...
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Michael Greenstone
Anant Sudarshan
20 September, 2022
- Podcasts
भारत में पर्यावरणीय क्षरण में सुधार लाने में नियामक नवाचार की भूमिका
येल पर्यावरण प्रदर्शन सूचकांक की 180 देशों की सूची में भारत अंतिम स्थान पर है। अनंत सुदर्शन भारत में पर्यावरणीय क्षरण के व्यापक आर्थिक और विकासात्मक प्रभावों की जांच करते हैं। इस विषय पर उपलब्ध साहित्...
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Anant Sudarshan
30 जून, 2022
- दृष्टिकोण
The role of regulatory innovation in reversing India’s environmental degradation
In the Yale Environmental Performance Index, India ranked last out of 180 countries. Anant Sudarshan examines the broader economic and developmental costs of environmental degradation. Based on the li...
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Anant Sudarshan
17 June, 2022
- Perspectives
Examining Covid-19 travel restrictions in developing countries
At the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the developing world took many of the same policy steps as developed nations to contain the spread, including lockdowns. This article uses evidence from India t...
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Fiona Burlig
Garrison Schlauch
Anant Sudarshan
01 October, 2021
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Clearing the air: The effects of transparency on plant pollution emissions
Of the 20 cities in the world with the worst fine particulate air pollution, 13 are in India. If good information on who pollutes is available, then traditional environmental regulation can bring down...
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Michael Greenstone
Rohini Pande
Nicholas Ryan
Anant Sudarshan
31 December, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Star power: Rating industries in Maharashtra by emission levels
Maharashtra Pollution Control Board recently launched a programme to rate industries based on their emission levels – the first such initiative by a government regulator. An easy and accessible way...
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Michael Greenstone
Rohini Pande
Nicholas Ryan
Anant Sudarshan
25 July, 2017
- Perspectives
Solar micro-grids in India: A reality check
Much of India’s strategy to reduce the use of fossil fuels relies on a transition to solar energy. Based on a survey of potential solar micro-grid customers in Bihar, this column highlights the chal...
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Anant Sudarshan
01 November, 2016
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Let Them Buy Light: The Welfare Benefits of Electricity for Rural Households and Enterprises
This project measured the welfare effects of increased access to electricity for rural households and micro-enterprises by letting them buy light. The research design experimentally offers off-grid, s...
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Robin Burgess
Michael Greenstone
Nicholas Ryan
Anant Sudarshan
08 August, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Building Environmental Regulation that Enables Growth
This project is linked to a broader research-policy collaboration with India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), and State Pollution Control Boards ...
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Michael Greenstone
Rohini Pande
Nicholas Ryan
Anant Sudarshan
30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India