Prashant Bharadwaj is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He received his BA in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2004 and his PhD in Economics from Yale University in 2009. He has been at UC San Diego since 2009. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), and of the Center for Evaluation of Global Action (CEGA).