Rohini Pande

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Rohini Pande
Nationality American
Institution Yale University
Harvard Kennedy School
Field Development economics
Political Economy
Gender Economics
Alma mater London School of Economics
Oxford University
St. Stephen's College, Delhi University
Awards Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, 2018
Infosys Prize, 2022
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Rohini Pande is an economist who is currently the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. [1] She was previously the Rafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy and Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Pande was the Co-Director of Center for International Development at Harvard University's Evidence for Policy Design research program (EPoD) and serves on the board of directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, MIT. She also serves on the board of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economic Profession (CSWEP) and as a co-editor of the American Economic Association's (AEA) journal American Economic Review: Insights. She is a Faculty Research Associate at NBER, CEPR and the IFPRI. Her research focuses on the economic analysis of the politics and consequences of different forms of redistribution, principally in developing countries. [2] Her outstanding and empirical findings in fields of governance and accountability, women’s empowerment, role of credit in poverty, the economic aspects of the environment and the potential of policy design in these areas, won her the Infosys Prize 2022 in Social Sciences. [3]

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Early life and education

Pande was born to a public administrator father and a journalist mother and her sister is a doctor. [4] She is a Rhodes Scholar and holds a Ph.D. as well as M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics. Her doctoral thesis, dated 2000, was titled The economics of public policy: Interventions in electoral representation, information transmission and investment choices. [5] Her other educational qualifications include a M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, and a B.A. in Economics from St. Stephens College, Delhi University.

Career

Pande is the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics at Yale University. Until 2019, she was the Rafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School. She co-directs the Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) Initiative. Before to joining Harvard Kennedy School, she was an Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University and has also taught at Yale University, MIT, and Columbia University. [6]

Work

Pande's research work focuses on the economic costs and benefits of informal and formal institutions and the role of public policy in affecting change. Her work is focused in India, where she examines how institutions can be designed to empower historically disadvantaged groups; how low-cost improvements in information collection and dissemination can enable flexible regulation and more efficient outcomes in areas as diverse as environmental protection and elections; and how biased social norms, unless challenged by public policy, can worsen individual well-being and reduce economic efficiency. [7]

Selected works

Fellowships and honors

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References

  1. ↑ "Rohini Pande appointed the Heinz Professor of Economics". YaleNews. 16 July 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "Faculty at Harvard Kennedy School".
  3. ↑ "Rohini Pande wins Infosys Prize 2022". The MacMillan Center. 16 November 2022. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  4. ↑ "Harvard Portrait: Rohini Pande". Harvard Magazine. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  5. ↑ Pande, Rohini (2000). The economics of public policy: Interventions in electoral representation, information transmission and investment choices (PhD). London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "Rohini Pande - IGC". IGC. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "Bio" . Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  8. ↑ "Congratulations to our 2021 Fellows | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  9. ↑ http://www.voxeu.org/person/rohini-pande
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