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Cambridge economists cover a vast span of subjects and specialist interests - from household behaviour, through gender wage discrimination and collective bargaining, to international monetary policy. Each researcher brings an individual approach rooted not just in economics but in fields such as psychology, history or mathematics. Within the context of increasing globalisation, the Faculty has launched three new centres. The Centre for International Macroeconomics and Finance (CIMF) focuses on issues such as global interaction and financial crises. The Centre for Research in Microeconomics (CReMic) concentrates on analysis of survey data, networks, and theoretical and applied microeconomic policy. The Centre for Quantitative Economic History provides a forum for the interchange of ideas and development of research between economic historians in Cambridge and at other institutions throughout the world.


Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie

Faculty of Economics
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Sheilagh Ogilvie is Professor of Economic History in the Faculty of Economics. She is interested in economic growth and development, historical and modern. Her current research focuses on the institutional determinants of human well-being in developing economies between the medieval period and the present day.

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Professor Ogilvie is a frequent visitor to the Department of Economics at the University of Mumbai; she has supervised doctoral students in Indian economic development and demography and has a longstanding interest in Indian economic history and historical demography.

Dr Sriya Iyer

Faculty of Economics
St. Catharine's College
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Dr Sriya Iyer is an Isaac Newton Trust Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. Dr. Iyer has also been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests are in development economics and applied microeconomics, focusing particularly on the microeconomics of development, economics of religion, economic demography and education. Her research includes papers published on India, Kenya, Brazil, Bangladesh, USA, and she has also published a book on Demography and Religion in India (Oxford University Press, 2002).

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Dr Iyer has worked with Indian academics both in India and abroad; her work on India includes papers on education differences by religion and caste, affirmative action policies, missing women, and demographic differences by religion in India; has in recent years been conducting a large economic survey of religious organisations in India examining how they innovate with respect to the provision of religious and non-religious services by providing health, education and other services; working currently on a project on madrasa education in India.

Kumar Aniket

Faculty of Economics
Murray Edwards & Newnham College
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Born and raised in India, Dr Kumar Aniket obtained a Bachelors in Economics from Hindu College, University of Delhi, a Masters in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. Dr Aniket research is focussed on understanding the nature and causes of poverty. His research includes work on microfinance, health economics and economic growth.

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He has previously worked for the Worldbank and is currently associated with the Bihar chapter of the International Growth Centre.

Dr Pramila Krishnan

Faculty of Economics
Jesus College
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Dr Krishnan is a Senior Lecturer and fellow of Jesus College. Her research interests include the Analysis of Household Behaviour and Rural Institutions in Developing Countries. Microeconometric Approaches to Development Economics. Household Economics and Labour Economics

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India links: research into rural-urban migration in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh; education in Bombay slums; financial networks in rural areas; allocation of public goods in rural India. Working with ICRISAT (International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), Hyderabad and Mumbai-based NGO, Akanksha.

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