Nitin Shankar Kanakaraj

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Senior Research Associate, J-PAL South Asia

Nitin is a Senior Research Associate at the Behavioral Development Lab. He currently works on a project involving randomized evaluation of incentives to take-up mental health care among the youth in Chennai, India. He has previously worked on projects involving gender and mental health. Nitin has about 4 years of experience in Development Economics and Data Analytics. Nitin has previously worked with renowned organizations such as The World Bank and Nathan Economics Consulting.

 

Nitin has a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Warwick, UK with a specialization in Behavioral and Experimental Economics. He has experience in data analytics using Stata, Python, R, Tableau and MS Excel. He is UGC NET qualified in Economics.