Prashant Bharadwaj is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies, UC SanDiego. His research interests are in development and labour economics, focusing on the interactions between early childhood health, gender and education. His research affiliations include BREAD, CEGA, and the NBER. Dr Prashant obtained his PhD from Yale University in 2009 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego.