Karthik Muralidharan

Karthik Muralidharan is the Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at UC San Diego. His research focuses on development, public, and labor economics, with particular interest in education, health, and social protection; program evaluation; and improving the effectiveness of public spending, especially in developing countries. He serves as an Honorary Advisor to the Government of India, and is on the Board of Directors of the Poverty Action Lab at MIT where he is co-chair of the education research program.