Portrait of Naveen Kumar GBGSCET · MBA

Naveen
Kumar G

Founding Director, MBA Program & Assistant Professor of Economics.

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I serve as the Founding Director of the MBA Program at BGS College of Engineering & Technology, Bengaluru.

I received a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois Chicago, a Master's in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University.

My research interests span Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Education, Development Economics, and Sustainable Agriculture. Broadly, my work studies how institutions, incentives, and public policy shape educational and economic outcomes in developing countries.

I am an Invited Researcher at J-PAL South Asia.

Pitfalls of Government Dashboards: Experimental Evidence from India
with A. Arun (UC Irvine), S. Brownstone (UCSD), S. George (NUS) & K. Muralidharan (UCSD)
Learning in Isolation: The Human & Social Capital Effects of Targeted Schooling Systems
with Kartik Srivastava (Harvard)
Measuring College Quality and Its Determinants
with A. Aiyer (UPenn), G. Khanna (UCSD) & K. Muralidharan (UCSD)
Effects of Residential School Education on Senior-Secondary Outcomes
with T. Chakravorty (UCSD) & S. Ramachandran (UCSD)
Incentivising Sustainable Paddy Cultivation in India
with Nicholas Ryan (Yale) & S. Brownstone (UCSD)
Impact of Public-Funded Residential Schools on the Local School Market
with J. Nadal (Michigan State), V. Varghese (Alma) & A. Acharya (UCSD)
Teaching
Undergraduate
  • Microeconomics
  • Economics of Sports
  • Karnataka Economy
  • Rural Economics
  • Business Environment
Graduate
  • Economics for Decision Making (MBA)
Winifred Geldard Memorial Award— 2017 & 2020, Dept. of Economics, UIC.