Eeshani Kandpal

Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

Eeshani Kandpal is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development. Her research informs development policy to improve maternal and child outcomes, focusing on the design and impacts of cash transfers to poor households, pay-for-performance contracts to improve health worker effort and maternal and child health care, and household-level determinants of investment in women's human capital. She previously served as a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. She holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BA in Economics and Classics from Macalester College.

Recent work by Eeshani Kandpal