Naveen Sunder

I am an economist working at the intersection of applied microeconomics, health economics, and development economics.

I am an Associate Professor of Economics at Bentley University and an Associate Member at the REAL Centre at the University of Cambridge. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and completed my Ph.D. in Economics at Cornell University.

My research examines how early-life conditions - access to education, health shocks, household economic circumstances, and social norms - shape long-run health, human capital, and socioeconomic outcomes. I use quasi-experimental and causal inference methods applied to large-scale administrative and survey datasets across multiple countries and contexts.

My work spans topics including health insurance and child mortality, the long-run consequences of medical innovation, education and mental health, intergenerational effects of schooling, and the behavioral determinants of health decisions. Much of my research focuses on low- and middle-income countries, including China, India, Madagascar, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda, while also asking questions that travel across institutional contexts.

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