Gaurav Khanna is an Assistant Professor of economics at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego. His research focuses on Development Economics, Labour Economics and Applied Econometrics. Many of his current projects concentrate on education policy, high-skill immigration, infrastructure, public-work programs, conflict and crime.
He holds a P.hD in Economics from the University of Michigan and prior to joining UC San Diego he 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.