Krishna B. Kumar

Biography

Krishna Kumar is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation. He directs Research and Policy in International Development (RAPID) within RAND Labor and Population and leads the Rosenfeld Program on Asian Development at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research and teaching interests are economic growth and development, human capital accumulation, and technological change. He has studied the role of public policy on Indian entrepreneurship and conducted a comparative analysis of the Indian and Chinese education systems. He has researched the role of economic openness on education and growth, higher education policies in the United States, the effect of tax reform on economic growth, international capital flows, reasons for U.S.–Europe productivity differences, the effect of the Green Revolution on recipient and donor countries, cross-country determinants of firm size, policies to revive the stagnant sub-Saharan African economies, and the role of social capital in economic development. His research has been published in leading journals in economic growth and development and macroeconomics. He teaches development economics at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and global economics at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. He has received awards in teaching excellence at these schools. He has also taught at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and has prior experience in the American and Indian software industries. Kumar received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.