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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.
Posts by Shefali Khanna
साफ वायु : क्या भारत में पराली जलाने पर प्रतिबंध वाकई कारगर हैं?
दिसंबर 2015 से राष्ट्रीय हरित अधिकरण ने पाँच राज्यों में पराली जलाने पर प्रतिबंध लगा दिया था। पराली जलाने की घटनाओं पर उपग्रह डेटा और लगाए गए जुर्माने के प्रशासनिक आँकड़ों का उपयोग करते हुए, यह लेख इस...
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Shefali Khanna  
Kanika Mahajan  
Sudarshan Ramanujam                               
23 अक्टूबर, 2025
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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 ...
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Shefali Khanna  
Kanika Mahajan  
Sudarshan Ramanujam                               
14 July, 2025
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Escaping the subsidy-quality trap in India’s retail electricity market
Cross-subsidies in retail electricity tariffs leave distribution utilities with neither the incentive nor the capital to improve reliability, particularly for their most subsidised consumers. Using bi...
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Shefali Khanna  
Kevin Rowe                               
19 May, 2021
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