Pramila Krishnan

Pramila is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include analysis of household behaviour and rural institutions in developing countries; microeconometric approaches to development economics; household economics and labour economics.

Pramila Krishnan began her academic life as an econometrician working on models of self-selection before seeing the light and moving on to work in development economics.

Her research has concentrated on applied microeconomics and she has worked on topics ranging from household portfolios of poor households, to risk-sharing, intra-household allocation and informal insurance, social networks, non-cognitive skills and whether migrants might be both rich and happy.