Topic: State & the Market in Indian Education: Evidence & Policy Implications.
Speaker is Karthik Muralidharan, Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego.
Tuesday, February 25 in Class of 1947 room of the library, 3:00 pm
Reception Follows
Annual Rada Devi Joshi Lecture in India Studies
In this lecture Professor Muralidharan will discuss the deep structural challenges of the Indian education system and will suggest reforms based on his extensive research.
Professor Muralidharan is actively involved in advising and capacity building in India at both the central and state government levels. He is co-chair of the education research program of the Poverty Action Lab at MIT and a Research Associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research. His research spans development, as well as public, and labor economics with a focus on improving public spending in the social sector.
For more information, contact: Betty Hanson at betty.hanson@uconn.edu