I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at The University of Chicago, where I also completed my PhD in 2023 as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Dissertation Fellow, an NSF Environmental Data Science Fellow, and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.

My fields of interest are in development and environmental economics. In my job market paper, I study the optimal design of school voucher policies. My other work includes how monsoon forecasts can reduce climate risk and the role of social networks in enabling migration.

Prior to graduate school, I was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Energy Policy Institute of Chicago and completed my BA in Economics and Mathematics from Swarthmore College.

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Reach me at harshil@uchicago.edu