Mridhula Mohan

I am a development and health economist, which is a formal way of saying that I study the people averages miss.

I came to this through fieldwork: years of designing, running and analysing surveys on education and labour, and a spell in philanthropy, studying how India’s wealthiest families give and curating closed-door learning sessions for them. These days I work with large household surveys on health, gender, and climate, and I am starting a field study in preschools in northern Peru. My tools are applied microeconometrics, and lately I have wandered into the (very confusing) world of machine learning. I also have a big interest in genoeconomics.

Outside research, I like to cook and feed people: meet me once and you will probably leave with a dinner invite. I love food history, and I speak six languages with varying degrees of dignity. Recently, I have taken up painting, and sewing is under very serious consideration.

Unsolicited advice: for a pick-me-up, read P.G. Wodehouse’s Summer Lightning.