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Shefali Khanna
Shefali Khanna is an LSE Newcleo Fellow in Energy Economics and Policy in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on understanding the role of behaviour change in the transition to a low-carbon economy and on evaluating climate and energy policies. In her previous role, she was a Research Associate in the Business School at Imperial College London. She earned a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University in 2021, where she was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and a Ph.D. Student Affiliate of Evidence for Policy Design at the Center for International Development. Prior to her Ph.D., she was a Research Assistant at Resources for the Future and received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2012.
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Clearing the air: Do India’s crop burning bans really work?
In December 2015, the National Green Tribunal instituted a ban on crop residue burning across five states. Utilising satellite data on crop fires and administrative data on fines levied, this article examines the efficacy of the ban. It finds that the ban did have a sizeable downward impact on fire counts – but with a lag of a year, and effects lasting for at most two years.
