Priya Mukherjee

Priya Mukherjee is an assistant professor at the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is a research fellow at IZA-Institute of Labor Economics, and an affiliate at the Center for South Asia. Prof. 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. Her current research projects are based in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Nepal, and include studies on the impact of democratization and decentralization, improving state capacity, understanding education markets, and more recently, investigating the effects of the pandemic on the wellbeing of children and women.

CDE Research Area Affiliations:

Families & Households; Health & the Life Course; Demography of Inequality

Selected Publications:

Abeberese, Ama Baafra, Prabhat Barnwal, Ritam Chaurey, and Priya Mukherjee. “Democracy and firm productivity: evidence from Indonesia.” Review of Economics and Statistics 105, no. 3 (2023): 713-722.

Khanna, Gaurav, and Priya Mukherjee. “Political accountability for populist policies: Lessons from the world’s largest democracy.” Journal of Public Economics 219 (2023): 104819.