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Karthik Sastry

Princeton University
ksastry@princeton.edu

Karthik Sastry is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Karthik studies macroeconomics, focusing on the economic determinants of global trends in technology and productivity and the role of information and social interactions in shaping macroeconomic dynamics. He received his PhD from MIT in 2022 and AB from Princeton University in 2016. He was a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow at J-PAL at MIT.

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Food policy in a warming world

In the face of extreme heat damage to agricultural production, governments intervene to protect domestic consumers from high food prices. Examining the interaction between environmental shocks and foo...

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