Priya Mukherjee
Position title: Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Applied Economics
Email: priya.mukherjee@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-8695
Address:
417 Taylor Hall
427 Lorch St.
Madison, WI 53706
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About
Mukherjee’s primary research interests include development economics, with an emphasis on the role of human capital and political economy. She utilizes both field experiments and non-experimental methods in her work, and has extensive experience doing primary data collection in the field with local partners in South Asia. Her current research projects are based in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Nepal, and include studies on improving state capacity, and researching economic issues surrounding access to education and health services. Her research has been published in journals including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, Econometrica, and the Journal of Development Economics.
CDE research theme area affiliations
Families & Households; Health & the Life Course; Demography of Inequality
Selected Publications
James Berry, Saurabh Mehta, Hannah Ruebeck, Priya Mukherjee, and Kartini Shastry. “Inputs, Monitoring, and Crowd-out in India’s School-Based Health Interventions.” Journal of Public Economics, Vol 204, December 2021, 104552
James Berry, Saurabh Mehta, Hannah Ruebeck, Priya Mukherjee, and Kartini Shastry. “Implementation and Effects of India’s National School-Based Iron Supplementation Program.” Journal of Development Economics, Vol 144, May 2020, 102428