I’m a doctoral student in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. My research interests lie in post-revolutionary politics, political violence, decolonisation, ethnicity in African politics, foreign policy and democratisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. My thesis explores political violence and governance in a post-revolutionary context. During my time at UNU-WIDER, I will be focusing on how access to power affects expectations of governance pre, during and after a revolution.
I am a PhD candidate at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. My academic journey includes an MA in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and an MPhil from CDS as part of the integrated MPhil-PhD program. I was a visiting post-graduate researcher at University of Southampton, UK, during the Spring of 2023.
My research interests primarily revolve around development economics and labour economics, with a specific focus on employment patterns in developing countries and issues relating to the labor market of India. My PhD thesis broadly focuses on the evolution of non-agricultural self-employment in the backdrop of economic development and structural transformation in India. During my three months at WIDER, I aim to analyze what determines earnings for self-employed across different sectors, in the context of India's ongoing structural transformation.
I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. 
My academic journey includes an MSc in Economics from Lancaster University as part of the integrated PhD program and a BSc in Economics from Universidad de Piura, Peru. I have previously worked for the Young Lives project at Oxford University as a Research Consultant during the summers of 2023 and 2022. My research area is Development Economics, mainly investigating human capital accumulation and risky behaviours. During my period at UNU-WIDER, I will analyse how family planning programs in developing contexts might impact adolescents’ reproductive and sexual behaviour.
I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. I am working in the areas of Development Economics and Labour Economics. The specific focus of my PhD thesis is on recent employment guarantee programs and food security initatives in urban areas in India, as a part of which I have conducted extensive fieldwork in the state of Rajasthan. As a PhD Fellow at UNU-WIDER, I am working on evaluating the impact of the urban employment guarantee programs on female labor force participation and livelihood security of urban informal workers.
I am currently a visiting PhD Fellow at UNU-WIDER and pursuing a PhD in Economics at the University of Szeged, Hungary. My research project centers around the analysis of the gender wage gap and occupational segregation in labor markets within Sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular emphasis on the role of education in addressing gender wage disparities. At UNU-WIDER, my research primarily revolves around investigating how occupational and industrial segregation affect the estimates of gender earnings disparities in Kenya, principally focusing on the within-between occupational gender wage gap. Besides, my research interests include labor economics, inequality, microsimulation, econometrics, and development economics, among others.
I am a PhD candidate and Researcher at the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (IES FSV UK) in Prague, Czech Republic. My focus is on Taxation, International Corporate Tax Avoidance, and Public, International and Development Economics. During my research stay at the UNU-WIDER, I am working on two projects. The first project is about how the relationship between tax policies and corporate tax revenue generation differs across countries with different income levels. The second project is about the effects of the Online Cash Register (also called Electronic Billing Machines) policy implemented in Russia on firms’ reported profits, profits tax, firms’ exit decisions, and the overall efficiency of the policy.
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