Kanika Mahajan

Biography

Kanika Mahajan is Assistant Professor of Economics at Ashoka University. Her primary research interests include empirical development economics in the field of gender, labor and environment. Her recent publications look at the effect of labor supply on gender wage gap, the effect of productivity shocks like rainfall on the gender wage gap and the effect of NREGA on casual wages in rural India. Currently, she is working on differences in agriculture productivity across male and female managed farms in India and exploring the structural linkages between agriculture and decline in female employment in rural areas. Previously, she has worked at Ambedkar University Delhi as an Assistant Professor of Economics from 2015-2017 where she taught courses on development economics, econometrics, statistics and microeconomic theory. She obtained her Ph.D. in Quantitative Economics from the Economics and Planning Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, in 2015. She completed her undergraduate studies in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and earned her Master’s degree in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

Research Interest

economics