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Gaurav Khanna

University of California, San Diego
gakhanna@ucsd.edu

Gaurav Khanna is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development, and an editor at the Journal of Labor Economics. 

He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan, with interests in development economics, labour economics, and applied econometrics.

Posts by Gaurav Khanna

How firms adapt supply chains to climate risk

Amidst growing climate risks, localised weather events such as floods or droughts pose a threat to the links between firms and their suppliers. Using data from India, this article analyses how busines...

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Covid-19 and mental health: Large-scale phone survey in six Indian states

The Covid-19 pandemic brought with it the dual crises of public health and the economy, particularly in low-income settings with limited formal safety nets. Based on a large-scale phone survey conduct...

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कोटा (आरक्षण) और स्कूली शिक्षा सम्बन्धी निर्णय

सामाजिक समूहों में व्याप्त असमानताओं को पाटने के एक साधन के रूप में, सकारात्मक कार्रवाई, दशकों से एक विवादास्पद मुद्दा रहा है। यह लेख 1990 के दशक में सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र की नौकरियों और कॉलेजों में भारत ...

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The electoral consequences of India’s demonetisation

It is widely believed that there may have been little or no electoral consequences of India’s demonetisation in 2016. This article analyses voter behaviour following demonetisation. It finds that pl...

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How the American Dream led to India's IT boom

In the context of the ongoing global debate on migration policies, this column shows that the H-1B visa programme of the US had a powerful impact on the US IT sector, and played a prominent role in sp...

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What are schools worth?

Since large-scale expansions in education impact both individual behaviours and labour markets, convincing causal estimates of their overall benefits are hard to generate. Analysing the overall econom...

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Maoist violence and MNREGA

The spate of Maoist attacks on security personnel in Chhattisgarh this week serves as a reminder that Moaist insurgency is the single biggest internal security threat faced by India. This column anal...

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Transit networks and regional development in India

Recent research illustrates the immediate positive effects of transit networks in India on rural employment, manufacturing growth and so on. This column focuses on the long-term impact of national hi...

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Quotas and schooling decisions

Affirmative action, as an instrument for bridging inequalities across social groups, has been a contentious issue for decades. This column analyses the impact of reservation in public sector jobs and...

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