Rohini Pande

Rohini Pande is an Indian economist, who is currently the Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government. Pande is the Co-Director of CID's Evidence for Policy Design research program (EPoD) and serves on the Board of Directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, MIT. She also serves on the board of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economic Profession (CSWEP). She is also a Faculty Research Associate at NBER, CEPR and the IFPRI. Her research focuses on the economic analysis of the politics and consequences of different forms of redistribution, principally in developing countries.

Pande was born to a public administrator father and a journalist mother. Her sister is a doctor. She holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics, a M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, and a B.A. in Economics from St. Stephens College, Delhi University.

Prior to joining the Kennedy School, she was an Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University. She has taught at Yale University, MIT, and Columbia University.

Pande's research work focuses on the economic costs and benefits of informal and formal institutions and the role of public policy in affecting change. She has extensively done field work in India, examining how institutions can be designed to empower historically disadvantaged groups; how low-cost improvements in information collection and dissemination can enable flexible regulation and more efficient outcomes in areas as diverse as environmental protection and elections; and how biased social norms, unless challenged by public policy, can worsen individual well-being and reduce economic efficiency.

Odin has several publications in top economics and policy journals.

• 2008 and 2009 Lunch on the Dean, Kennedy School teaching award
• 1998 ; Wingate Scholarship, New Scholar, Public Policy Programme CEPR
• 1997 Royal Economic Society Junior Research Fellowship
• 1996 Overseas Research Students Award, British Government
• 1992 Rhodes Scholarship
• Russell Sage Presidential Award (with Lena Edlund)

• http://www.voxeu.org/person/rohini-pande

• Rohini Pande's website at Harvard University
• Evidence for Policy Design Program
• Poverty Action Lab
• Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development
• International Food Policy Research Institute
• Committee on the Status of Women in the Economic Profession