Karthik Sastry

Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Karthik Sastry is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Karthik studies macroeconomics, focusing on the economic determinants of global trends in technology and productivity and the role of information and social interactions in shaping macroeconomic dynamics. He received his PhD from MIT in 2022 and AB from Princeton University in 2016. He was a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow at J-PAL at MIT.

Recent work by Karthik Sastry

Food policy in a warming world

Governments often seek to protect domestic consumers following climate shocks to agricultural production, but these policies may exacerbate global losses.

Energy & Environment

Allan Hsiao Jacob Moscona Karthik Sastry

Published 11.06.24

Inappropriate technology: Evidence from global agriculture

The rich-world bias of agricultural innovation explains a large share of global disparities in technology adoption and agricultural productivity

Technology & Innovation

Jacob Moscona Karthik Sastry

Published 30.03.23

Karthik Sastry

Recent work by Karthik Sastry

Food policy in a warming world

Inappropriate technology: Evidence from global agriculture