Nayana Bose

Nayana Bose is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Scripps College. She earned her B.Sc in Economics from University of Calcutta in Calcutta, India, and she earned her M.A in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, India. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University in 2015. Her fields are Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Applied Econometrics. She is primarily interested in studying the economic situation of individuals in low-income countries and analyzing the effect of public policy on economic development by concentrating on poverty, gender, labor market outcomes, and intra-household resource allocation. Her dissertation focused on evaluating the impact of the 100 day anti-poverty program in India, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, on household well-being, intra-household budget allocation decisions, and marginalized groups. She has also studied the Employment Guarantee Scheme from a political economy perspective by concentrating on political reservations for women leaders to assess whether women leaders have a role model effect in attracting more women to participate under the Scheme, and to assess whether women leaders’ allocation of funds for various public works under the Scheme reflect women's preferences. Her current project focuses on the impact of property rights for women in India.