Nishant Chadha e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Research Interests Development Economics, Political Economy, Governance, Economics of Education, Urbanisation Educational Qualifications PhD Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2006-2012 M.A. Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2005-2006 B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 2000-2004 Professional Experience Fellow, India Development Foundation, June 2016 – Present Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Shiv Nadar University, July 2012 – May 2016 Graduate Engineer Trainee, TATA Motors Ltd., June 2004 – July 2005 Research Fragmentation, Public Good Provision and Inequality in India, 1987 – 2012 (with Bharti Nandwani) (submitted) The Role of Caste in Corruption (under review) How Long the Shadow of the City? The Impact of Urbanisation on Rural Schooling (with Arijit Das and Shubhashis Gangopadhyay) Technological Change and Political Mobilisation: Evidence from North India Work in Progress Fragmentation and Schooling in India (with Bharti Nandwani) Backward Linkages in Education: The impact of Tertiary Education on Schools (with Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Shampa Bhattacharjee) Research Grants UNU – WIDER grant on “Patterns and Trends in Between Group Inequality Within and Across Countries” (with Bharti Nandwani) PPRU (NITI Ayog) grant on “Backward Linkages in Education” (with Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Shampa Bhattacharjee) Sponsored Projects Cost of Inaction in Family Planning in India (with Dipankar Gupta and Shubhashis Gangopadhyay) Conferences and Workshops UNU – WIDER workshop on “Between Group Inequality: Trends and patterns within and between countries” (Helsinki, 2016), Duke - Middlebury - SNU conference (2016), ISI Delhi Growth and Development Conference (2012, 2015), Meetings of the Asian Econometric Society (New Delhi, 2012), Symposium on Caste and Politics, IIT Kanpur (2013), Duke SNU conference on Urbanization (2013), North Eastern Universities Development Consortium (MIT, Boston 2010), Canadian Economics Association (Montreal 2010), BREAD Summer School on Development Economics (Verona, Italy 2008) Invited Talks Delhi School of Economics, IIT Kanpur, ISI Delhi, Centre for Policy Research, Indraprastha College (Delhi University) Professional Activities External examiner for M.Phil thesis of Mr. Abhimanyu Dadu, IGIDR, 2014 External examiner in the Proposal Defense of Mr. Manohar, IGIDR, 2015 Organiser of the Duke-Middlebury-SNU conference on “Caste, Class or Race? Inequality In India and the United States”, 2016 Co-organiser of the Political Economy workshop, Department of Economics (with Abhinash Borah), 2015 Academic Achievements University of British Columbia: University Graduate Fellowship (2007-2010), Sun Life Insurance Fellowship (2006-2007), Graduate Entrance Scholarship (2005), John Cragg prize in Econometrics (awarded for best performance in PhD 1st year Econometrics) 2007, Travel grant to attend BREAD summer school (2008) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur: Best Undergraduate Thesis Project (Mechanical Engineering) 2004, Placed in the top 1 per cent of students in Mathematics and Physics Olympiads, 1999 Computer Skills STATA, SAS, Matlab, LaTeX .