Shanthi Nataraj
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Education
Overview
Biography
Shanthi Nataraj is an associate economist at the RAND Corporation whose research interests include economic development and environmental and resource economics. She is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Nataraj's dissertation investigated the impacts of India's trade liberalization on firm productivity, and she has provided consulting services to the World Bank on the lack of employment growth among small firms. In environmental and resource economics, she conducted a study of how residential water consumers responded to a change in pricing structure. Nataraj is a licensed engineer, with experience in environmental engineering. Nataraj received her Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Productivity and employment growth among Indian manufacturing firms
- Drivers of innovation in high-tech clusters
- Effect of water pricing on urban demand
- Priorities for energy and environment research in Qatar
- Water resources management under uncertainty
Selected Publications
Shanthi Nataraj, "The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity: Evidence from India's Formal and Informal Manufacturing Sectors," Journal of International Economics (forthcoming)
Shanthi Nataraj and Michael Hanemann, "Does marginal price matter? A regression discontinuity approach to estimating water demand," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 61:198-212, 2011
Ann Harrison, Leslie Martin and Shanthi Nataraj, "Learning Versus Stealing: How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?" NBER Working Paper 16733, RAND Labor and Population Working Paper WR-832
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