Gaurav Khanna

Assistant Professor

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Profile

Gaurav Khanna is an assistant professor of economics at the School and a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. His research focuses on development economics, labor economics and applied econometrics. Many of his current projects concentrate on education policy, high-skill immigration, infrastructure, public-works programs and conflict.

Prior to joining UC San Diego, Khanna was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. and a consultant for the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Unit.

For more information, please visit Gaurav Khanna’s personal site.

Education and CV

Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, 2016
M.Sc., Economics for Development, University of Oxford, 2009
B.A., Economics, Delhi University, 2008
CV

GPS Spotlight

Hiring highly educated immigrants leads to more innovation and better products
Sept. 26, 2018, authored by Gaurav Khanna and Munseob Lee in The Conversation

An Immigrant Workforce Leads to Innovation, According to New UC San Diego Research
July 16, 2018 | In a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by Gaurav Khanna and Munseob Lee, the authors outline how these findings were uncovered through the use of a novel data set that combined data on H-1B workers and ﬁrm production.

An Economic Sleuth
June 7, 2018 | UC San Diego and GPS economist’s Gaurav Khanna research sheds light on contested issues facing nation.

Grounded in economics
Aug. 21, 2017 | Meet GPS’s new assistant professor, Gaurav Khanna, an economist who is leveraging his inherent interest in socio-political issues to ask important, policy-relevant questions.

Publications

Selected Recent Publications

“Development for peace: The decline of Naxalite violence in India,” (with Laura Zimmermann) Sustainable Security, Sept. 28, 2017.

“Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development” (with Laura Zimmermann) Journal of Development Economics, vol 124, January 2017, p 120-141.

"Recruitment of Foreigners in the Market for Computer Scientists in the US" (with John Bound, Breno Braga and Joe Golden) -Journal of Labor Economics, vol 33, part 2, July 2015, p S187-S233.

Other Publications and Book Chapters

"Reservoir of Foreign Talent" (with John Bound & Nicolas Morales) Science, vol. 356, Issue 6339, pp. 697, May 2017.

“Fighting Maoist violence with promises: Evidence from India’s Employment Guarantee Scheme” (with Laura Zimmerman) The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, vol 9, no. 1, 2014.

“Finishing Degrees And Finding Jobs ” (with John Bound, Murat Demirci and Sarah Turner) - chapter in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 15, William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, editors.

"Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle Income Countries" (with David Newhouse and Pierella Paci) - chapter in Working through the Crisis: Jobs and Policies in Developing Countries during the Great Recession, December 2013.

"Understanding the Economic Impact of the H-1B Program on the US ” (with John Bound & Nicolas Morales) - chapter in High-Skilled Migration to the United States and its Economic Consequences, Gordon Hanson, William Kerr, and Sarah Turner, editors.