CV
Prashant Bharadwaj
Citizenship: US Citizen
Email: prbharadwaj [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Phone: 858-822-6760
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Employment:
July 2009: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, 2009
Dissertation: Fertility, Rural Labor Market Inefficiencies and Household Outcomes
M.Phil., Economics, Yale University, 2007
M.A., Economics, Yale University, 2005
A.B., Economics, University of Chicago, 2004
Fellowships, Honors and Awards:
Yale Dissertation Fellowship, 2008
Sasakawa Research Award, Yale University, 2007
Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders’ Fellowship, Yale University, 2007-08
Economic Growth Center Fellowship, Yale University, 2004-2007
Yale University Graduate Fellowship, 2004-2008
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Chicago, 2004
Donnelley Scholar, University of Chicago, 2001-2003
Gates Millennium Scholar, University of Chicago, 2000-2003
Research Papers:
“Do Initial Endowments Matter only Initially? Birth Weight, Parental Investments and School Achievement” (with Juan Eberhard & Christopher Neilson)
“Discrimination begins in the Womb - Evidence of Sex Selective Prenatal Investments” (with Leah Nelson)
“Fertility and Rural Labor Market Inefficiencies – Evidence from India”
“Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth – Implications for Adult Outcomes,” (with Joseph Altonji and Fabian Lange) r&r Journal of Labor Economics
“Atmospheric Air Pollution and Birth Outcomes,” (with Juan Eberhard)
“Impacts of Changes in Marriage Law – Implications for Fertility and School Enrollment”
r&r Journal of Human Resources
“The Partition of India: Demographic Consequences,” (with Asim Khwaja and Atif Mian)
accepted at International Migration
“The Big March: Migratory Flows after the Partition of India,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 43, No. 35. (with Asim Khwaja and Atif Mian)
"Partition, Migration and Jute Cultivation in India," (with James Fenske)
accepted at Journal of Development Studies
Teaching:
Winter 2010 - INTL 190: Economic Development in Africa (undergraduate)
Spring 2010 - INTL 190: Economic Development in South Asia (undergraduate)
ECON 116: Economic Development (undergraduate)
Fall 2010 - INTL 190: Economic Development in South Asia (undergraduate)
ECON 116: Economic Development (undergraduate)
Presentations:
2008: Northeastern Universities Development Conference (2 sessions), Yale University
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Yale School of Management
2009: Tufts, MIT Sloan, UCSD, SAIS-Johns Hopkins, Federal Trade Commission, Cornerstone Research, Economic Research Service (USDA), Occasional Workshop (UCSB)
2010: University of Southern California, PACDEV, Agriculture Research Institute (National University of Singapore), Chicago Federal Reserve, Southern California Applied Microeconomics Conference (discussant), UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, NEUDC, Oxford, University of Bristol, All California Labor Economics Conference, ITAM
2011: World Bank (DECRG) (scheduled)