Mishra Narbadeshwar’s research interest lies in the area of Development Economics. He predominantly works in Economics of Education, Health Economics, Financial Inclusion, and Environmental Economics. He is primarily interested in causal inference studies. He has attended multiple courses on Causal Inference from the doyen like Pedro H C Sant’Anna, Scott Cunningham, Jaya Krishnakumar, and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay. He is a mentee in the AMIE Economics Mentoring Program 2023. He has won the best paper award, across all the tracks and management areas, at the IIT Jodhpur First Online Management Doctoral Colloquium 2023. He has also received an honourable mention by ADB–IEA Innovative Policy Research Award 2023 for high quality research and research excellence.

Before joining PhD, he was in the teaching profession. He was an Assistant Professor at Loyola College (Chennai) and Care Group of Institutions (Trichy). He taught Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics,) and Mathematics for Economics. He is also the reviewer of the prestigious journal PLOS ONE.

1. Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Loyola College, Chennai

Taught Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics, International Economics (at UG level in fall 2018) and Mathematics for Economics, Financial Services, and Portfolio Management (at UG level in winter 2018, and spring 2019). Received the Best Teacher Award as well for the AY 2018

2. Lecturer, Care Group of Institutions, Trichy

Taught Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Statistics to UG students. Occasionally, also taught Economics to standard XI and XII students, CARE School set up with CARE Group of Institutions

3. Internship, Madras Institute of Development Studies

Did his internship under Prof L Venkatachalam in the area of Behavioural Economics. He studied the contribution of Herbert A.Simon, Daniel Kahneman, and Amos Tversky. His topic was Bounded Rationality: Simplicity amidst Complexity. He worked on the incapability of human to rationalise the unlimited information and how the human ends up being satisficers instead of maximiser. He used the earlier developed framework and axioms in the context of chess game

4. Independent Research Studies at IFMR-GSB

Fintech and Financial Inclusion: Emerging Trends (with Sunanda Sangwan), March 2022.

The paper presents an overview of selected literature on the association of fintech and financial inclusion using keyword analysis. Inferring from the results of the data collected from the published work in the Web-of-Science database, we identify and analyse research trends and make recommendations for further research work

5. Collaborative Work at IFMR GSB
6. Impact of WASH facilities on children’s schooling. Does household head gender matter? Some empirical evidence from India. Paper investigates the impact of household head gender and WASH provisions on children’s schooling attainment. Link to the paper (with Kumar Ashutosh and Utkarsh Choudhary)
7. Banking on Education: The impact of Branch Expansion on Learning. (with Kumar Ashutosh and Utkarsh Choudhary)
8. Temperature Shocks, Crime, and Social Welfare Programs: Evidence from India. (with Mugdha Kinhikar)
9. From Son Preference to Spousal Abuse: The Impact of Family Planning on Intimate Partner Violence in India. (with Kumar Ashutosh and Utkarsh Choudhary)

6. Collaborative work with Prof Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay

Worked as a Research Assistant to Prof Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, PI of the project  Does Gender-based Awareness Campaign Improve Girls’ Educational and Learning Outcomes? Empirical Evidence from India. The study uses the quasi-experimental research design and estimate the causal impact of the gender based awareness on the educational and learning outcomes of girls. The paper is co-authored with Sona Mitra, and Prof Sayli Javadekar. Media Coverage to this study is here and here.

Paper Presentations: 

Paper Accepted in Conference:

Working papers:
1) Fintech and Financial Inclusion: Emerging Trends (with Sunanda Sangwan), March 2022
2) Exploratory factors inducing people to use Digital Banking: Some Empirical Evidence

Workshops
Summer Schools:
1. Political Economy by Prof Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay & Prof Sabyasachi Das, organised by Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune, India, June 9-11, 2022
2. Causal Inference by Prof Pedro H.C. Sant’Anna, July 11-20, 2022
3. Spatial Statistics and Spatial Econometrics, Delhi School of Economics, June 26 & July 1, 2021
4. Causal Inference by Prof Scott Cunnigham, Baylor University, Texas, USA, August 9-13, 2021
5. PhD Summer School on Applied Microeconomics, (Cyprus University, Lancaster University & Padova University), July 6-9, 2021
Winter School:
1. Winter School on Panel Models and Their Applications, 2022. Indian Statistical Institute, North-East Centre
2. Winter School on Development Economics (Education; Credit, Insurance and Risk; Migration), BREAD-IGC Virtual PhD Course, Spring 2022

Narbadeshwar is a passionate and adventurous person who loves to explore new places and experiences. His favourite activities include traveling to new places, riding bike, working out, and listening to music. He believes that engaging in these activities helps him to stay physically and mentally healthy. Finally, he loves to listen to music and finds that it is the perfect way to relax after a long day.

Moreover, Narbadeshwar is a dedicated educator who enjoys helping others learn and grow. He has been teaching for the past few years and finds it immensely rewarding to be able to help people with their doubts and guide them in their academic journey.

Academic Background:

1) MA in Economics, University of Madras, Chennai

2) BA (Hons) in Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi

3) Gold Medalist, MA Economics, University of Madras, Chennai, 2014-2016

4) Master Fellow Scholarship recipient, University of Madras, Chennai, 2014-2016

5) UGC NET (NOV’ 2017, JUL’2018, DEC’2018); KSET 2015; TNSET 2016