Dr. Namrata Kala

Associate Professor

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Biography

Namrata Kala is an Associate Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, specializing in Management and Applied Economics. She has a rich academic background, having received her PhD in Environmental Economics from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. She also holds a BA (Honors) in Economics from Delhi University and an MA in International Development Economics from Yale. Her research interests focus on Environmental Development Economics, particularly how firms and households learn to adapt to environmental change and the regulation surrounding it. Her current projects investigate the returns on environmental technologies and the incentives for worker training. She has gained experience as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT and was a Namrata Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard University. Kala's exposition on economic systems reflects her dedication to understanding the dynamics of development and the impact of environmental policies in various socio-economic contexts.

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