Rohini Pande

Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Office Address
Rubenstein-318
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 46
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-384-5267
Email: Rohini_Pande@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Sean Lewis-Faupel (617-496-0744)
Rohini Pande

Profile

Rohini Pande is Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Pande is a NBER Research Associate and 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). Her research focuses on the economic analysis of the politics and consequences of different forms of redistribution, principally in developing countries.

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. A Rhodes Scholar, she is the recipient of several NSF and other research grants. She holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics, an M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford, and a B.A. in Economics from St. Stephens College, Delhi University.

Courses

Spring

  • PED-101 Economic Development: Theory, Policy, and Evidence
  • PED-330 The Design of Development Policy: From Research to Practice
  • PED-319 Development Economics II: Macroeconomic and Institutional Issues

Media Expertise

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Beaman, Lori, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, and Petia Topalova. "Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?" Journal of Quarterly Economics 124.4 (November 2009): 1497-1540.
  • Op-Eds
    • Beaman, Lori, Raghab Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, and Petia Topalova. "Can Political Affirmative Action for Women Reduce Gender Bias?" Vox, January 8, 2009.
    • Banerjee, Abhijit V., Selvan Kumar, Rohini Pande, and Felix Su. "Making the Right Choice." Hindustan Times, April 21, 2009.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Feigenberg, Benjamin, Erica Field, and Rohini Pande. "Building Social Capital through Micronance." Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics Summer Workshop, Stanford, August 13-15, 2009.