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  • Prathap Kasina
    Assistant Director Research
    J-PAL South Asia
    MPP, University of Michigan

    Prathap Kasina joined J-PAL in April 2010 and is now the Assistant Director of Research. Prior to that he worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Micro Finance for one year.

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  • Vipin Awatramani
    Senior Research Manager - Research and Survey Operations
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.S., Carnegie Mellon University

    As Senior Research Manager, Vipin Awatramani manages various research projects with partners such as Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Gujarat Energy Development Agency, Rajasthan Police, and Pradan, while also managing a team of Research Associates working on these projects.

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  • Anant Sudarshan
    Senior Research Manager
    J-PAL South Asia
    Ph.D., Stanford University

    Anant Sudarshan works at the intersection of energy policy, behavioral science, environmental economics, and engineering. At J-PAL South Asia he is co-PI on a project to design and evaluate a particulate emissions trading scheme in India.

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  • Radhika Jain
    Research Manager
    J-PAL South Asia
    B.A., Earlham College

    Radhika joined J-PAL in 2010 as a Research Associate and is working on the Child Immunization and Double-Fortified Salt projects in collaboration with the Bihar state government.

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  • Bastien Michel
    Research Manager
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.A., Ecole d'économie de Paris

    Bastien Michel holds a Masters degree in Economics from Paris School of Economics and a BA from the ENS de Cachan and the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne. He is currently based in Chennai and is working on the randomized evaluation of education, health and anti-corruption programs in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa.

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  • Manaswini Rao
    Research Manager
    J-PAL South Asia
    MPP, University of California at Berkeley

    Manaswini Rao joined J-PAL South Asia in August 2010 as a Research Associate. She is working on a social networks project in Southern Karnataka that studies diffusion of micro-finance take-up rates in small societies.

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  • Harsh Singh
    Research Manager
    J-PAL South Asia
    B.A., IIT Kharagpur

    Harsh Singh is currently working for J-PAL as a Research Associate on a project to identify the barriers which prevent small and medium enterprises from taking up energy efficient measures.

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Research Staff

  • Tanay Balantrapu
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.S., Sussex University

    Tanay Balantrapu is a Research Associate working on the Social Networks project based in Bangalore. He is interested in a wide range of topics within development economics including poverty alleviation, evaluation and impact assessment and education.

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  • Aditya Balasubramanian
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    B.A. Candidate, Harvard University

    Aditya works on the Delhi Voters Project, which seeks to understand how information provision affects voting preferences in Delhi slums and middle-class areas.

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  • Kshitij Batra
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    B.A., Grinnell College

    Kshitij joined J-PAL in June 2010 as a Research Associate and is presently based in Hyderabad. He is working on a study to evaluate the impact of Smartcards on government welfare programs in Andhra Pradesh, as well as a study on school-choice to evaluate the impact of vouchers on educational outcomes.

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  • Gaurav Chiplunkar
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.A., University of Cambridge

    Gaurav joined J-PAL South Asia in August 2011 and is currently a Research Associate on the Voting Information Campaign Project in Delhi.

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  • Rachna Nag Chowdhuri
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.Sc., University of Sussex

    Rachna works as a research associate for Pratham’s Mother Literacy project in Ajmer. Her research interests are education, development and conflicts, and poverty analysis.

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  • Anna Custers
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.S., London School of Economics

    Anna Custers joined J-PAL in 2010. She is currently working on the Urban Sanitation project in Orissa. Previously she worked at J-PAL Europe, Paris, on two randomized evaluations of programs focussing on the employment situation of youth in France.

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  • Kanika Dua
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    MPP, National University of Singapore

    Kanika Dua joined J-PAL as a Research Associate in June 2011 and is currently working on the National Rural Health Mission Project in Karnataka.

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  • John Firth
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    B.A., University of Notre Dame

    John Firth joined J-PAL in August 2010, and is currently working in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He works on one project assessing the effects of voter information campaigns, and another examining how the state police should combat drunk-driving.

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  • Dwijo Goswami
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    B.A., Tufts University

    Dwijo is working on a project assessing the impact of distributing Double Fortified Salt in the district of Bhojpur, Bihar. He joined J-PAL in July 2011.

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  • Nandini Gupta
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.S., University of Oxford

    Nandini joined J-PAL South Asia in June 2011 and is currently working on the Mother’s Literacy Project in Ajmer.

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  • Ravi Gupta
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia

    Institute for International Economic Studies
    B.A., B.S., Ohio State University

    Ravi joined J-PAL in June 2010 and is currently working as a research associate in Purnia, Bihar.

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  • Sarika Gupta
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.S., London School of Economics

    Sarika joined J-PAL in April 2011 and currently works as a Research Associate for the Delhi Voters Project, which studies how the availability of information can impact public service delivery in slums. Her research interests include governance and corruption, rights awareness, public service delivery, and household behavior, all in relation to poverty alleviation.

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  • Samma Hafeez
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.S., London School of Economics and Political Science

    Samma joined JPAL in 2011 as a Research Associate in Bihar to examine factors that influence demand for various types of menstrual management products, and in turn how use of these products affects the functioning of sanitation systems.

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  • Ben Hyman
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    MCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Ben Hyman is currently working for J-PAL as a Research Associate on an industrial regulation project that aims to evaluate the impact of emissions trading on pollution abatement and firm costs savings in India’s three largest industrial areas.

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  • Harini Kannan
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    Ph.D., Georgia State University

    Harini’s interest in evidence based policy formulation influenced her decision to work with J-PAL. She is currently working in New Delhi, India as a Research Associate on the Haryana PACCE Project.

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  • Yuanjian Carla Li
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    B.A., Harvard University

    Yuanjian joined J-PAL in 2010 and is currently working on a policy experiment to study the impact of different pollution control policy configurations on firms' behavior and the level of industrial pollution in Gujarat, India.

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  • Janhavi Nilekani
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    B.A., Yale University

    Janhavi Nilekani is a Ph.D. student in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. During 2011-2012, she is working as a Research Associate on the Emissions Trading Scheme Pilot Project at J-PAL SA.

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  • Hansa Parmar
    Field Operations
    J-PAL South Asia

    Hansa previously oversaw field operations for J-PAL evaluations of education programs in Vadodara, Gujarat, and is now working on an evaluation of Pratham's Read India program in Uttarakhand.

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  • Dilip Rabha
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.A., Vanderbilt University

    Dilip joined J-PAL South Asia in July 2011 and is working on two randomized evaluation projects; one involving corruption reduction and another regarding micronutrient fortification strategies in India's Midday Meals Program in Orrisa.

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  • Diksha Radhakrishnan
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.Sc., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

    Diksha is currently working as a Research Associate for the Menstrual Management and Sanitation Systems project in Bihar, India. She is conducting a study to examine factors that influence demand for various types of menstrual management products in rural markets.

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  • Shweta Rajwade
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.A., University of Chicago

    Shweta is currently working as a research associate on a J-PAL project aimed at improving the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

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  • Nikita Ramchandani
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.A., New York University

    Nikita currently works as a research associate on the Hyderabad Student’s Job Choice project, a study which explores the types of students who enter the government and private sectors.

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  • Achill Rudolph
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    B.A., University of Bayreuth

    Achill joined J-PAL in August 2011 and is currently based in Patna, Bihar. He is working on a project to evaluate the health impact of supplying iron-fortified salt to markets in rural Bihar.

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  • Zharna Shah
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    B.A. Yale University

    Zharna joined J-PAL in June 2011 as a Research Associate on the TB project where she works to assess the impact of a salary incentive scheme on community based TB health workers in Delhi, Punjab, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

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  • Surili Sheth
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    B.S., Ohio State University

    Surili joined J-PAL in August 2011 to work on the Andhra Pradesh Smartcards project and the Bihar TPDS/Cash Transfer project.

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  • Naveen Sunder
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.A., Delhi School of Economics

    Naveen joined J-PAL in June 2011. He works as a Research Associate for a project on mid-day meals in Keonjhar District in Orissa.

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  • Bikul Tulachan
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.A., Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

    Bikul Tulachan is currently working on a project which seeks to introduce Emissions Trading Schemes (ETS) in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.

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  • Srinivasan Vasudevan
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    M.A., Cornell University

    Srini is currently working on the NHRM Karnataka project.

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  • Nikhil Wilmink
    Research Associate
    J-PAL South Asia
    B.A., McGill University

    Nikhil joined J-PAL in 2010 to work on the impact of Mother's Literacy and Participation Programs on child learning in Ajmer, Rajasthan. His interests include community development, educational policy, social movements and identity politics.

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