Pallavi Prabhakar

I am a PhD student in Economics, affiliated with FAIR at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and with the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), Dhaka. 

In the Fall of 2026, I will be joining the Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) as a PostDoctoral Research Fellow.

Research Interests:
I am a development economist working at the intersection of public and labour economics. 

Across settings, I study how economic frictions at the government and household levels, shape the effectiveness of public programs.

In 2023, I was a Visiting Research Scholar at Department of Economics, University of Oxford, hosted by Abi Adams. In 2020, I was a CEGA Fellow at Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, hosted by Edward Miguel.

Previously, I worked with BRAC in Uganda and Oxford Policy Management in India. I hold a Masters from the London School of Economics and studied my Bachelors from University of Delhi.