About
Prashant is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, where he serves as the department’s Placement Director. He is a research affiliate at NBER, BREAD, CEGA, and CERP, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Development Economics and the Journal of Health Economics, and Editor in Chief of Economic Development and Cultural Change. His research is in development and labor economics, with particular interest in early-life conditions, gender, and human capital accumulation. He earned his BA at the University of Chicago (2004) and his PhD at Yale (2009). He and Christopher have collaborated on studies of universal pre-Kindergarten and the long-run consequences of early-childhood interventions.
Background
- Development Economics
- Labor Economics
- Health Economics
- Economics of Education
Education
- PhD, Economics · Yale University (2009)
- BA, Economics · University of Chicago (2004)
Career
- Professor of Economics (Placement Director), University of California, San Diego (present)
Career data last refreshed 2026-05-03 from the PhD-placements project.
Joint work with Christopher
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Health at Birth, Parental Investments and Academic Outcomes
Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 36, No 2, April 2018, (pp. 349-394) · 2018 · 222 cites
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Grey Matters: Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2017, (pp. 505-542) · 2017
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The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Chile
Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 65, No. 1, October 2016, (pp. 141-166) · 2016 · 169 cites
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Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement
American Economic Review, Vol. 103, No. 5, August 2013, (pp. 1862-91) · 2013 · 411 cites
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