Nilesh Fernando

A. Nilesh Fernando is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

Prof. Fernando is a development economist whose research agenda focuses on understanding frictions in labor markets and the agricultural sector in the developing world. His current projects relate to migration, culture, structural change and technology adoption.

He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2015 and completed his undergraduate studies at Hampshire College.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (2010 — 2015)
• Graduate coursework University of Oxford (2009 — 2010)
• BA Hampshire College (2003 — 2007)

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Economics University of Notre Dame (2016)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics Harvard University (2015 — 2016)
• Research Associate Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) (2008 — 2009)
• Research Associate Harvard Business School (2007 — 2008)
• Research Assistant Experimental Social Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley (2006 — 2006)
• Research Assistant Political Economy Research Institute (2005 — 2006)

Skills

• Quantitative Research
• Survey Design
• Microeconomics

Other

Public Policy, International Development, Program Evaluation, Economic Development, Statistics, Qualitative Research, Policy Analysis, Research, Stata, Development Economics, Econometrics