Vaishnavi Surendra
Job Market Paper:
The Moneylender as Middleman: Formal Credit Supply and Informal Loans in Rural India
Dissertation:
Essays on Credit Markets in Rural India
Fields of research:
- Development, Labor, Household Finance, Economics of Institutions
Education:
- PhD, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley. 2020.
- MSc, Economics, London School of Economics. 2012.
- MA (5 year integrated bachelors and masters), Economics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. 2011.
Teaching:
- Introduction to Economics -- Martha Olney -- Head Graduate Student Instructor -- UC Berkeley -- Fall 2017, 2018, 2019
- Microeconomic Theory with Application to Natural Resources -- Jeff Perloff -- Graduate Student Instructor -- UC Berkeley -- Spring 2017
- Microeconomic Theory with Application to Natural Resources -- Ethan Ligon -- Graduate Student Instructor -- UC Berkeley -- Fall 2016
- Environmental Economics -- David Roland-Holst -- Graduate Student Instructor -- UC Berkeley -- Spring 2016
- Introduction to Economics -- Martha Olney -- Graduate Student Instructor -- UC Berkeley -- Fall 2015
References:
Aprajit Mahajan
Associate Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Email: aprajit@berkeley.eduEthan Ligon
Associate Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Email: ligon@berkeley.eduVijayendra Rao
Lead Economist, Development Economics Research Group, The World Bank
Email: vrao@worldbank.org
Contact Information:
Email: v.surendra@berkeley.edu
Phone: (510)-316-5888
Placement Directors:
Professor Maximilian Auffhammer
auffhammer@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-643-5472
Professor Sofia Villas-Boas
sberto@berkeley.edu
Placement Officer:
Diana Lazo
lazo@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-642-3345
