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Utkarsh Saxena


Ph.D. candidate, public policy, University of Oxford


  1. I am a PhD candidate in public policy at the University of Oxford, supported by the Clarendon scholarship at St. John’s college. I completed a master of laws from Harvard Law School as an Inlaks scholar and a master in international development economics from Harvard Kennedy School as a John M. Olin Fellow. I was previously a law clerk and practicing attorney at the Supreme Court of India and a consultant with the Chief Economic Advisor of India, the World Bank, and the Boston Consulting Group. I am interested in development and environmental economics. …


  2. Working Projects Aggregate Impacts of Command-and-Control Environmental Policy: Evidence from Court-Ordered Mining Bans in India with Ananya Kotia (LSE) and Henry Zhang (MIT) Funding: PEDL ($33,000), STICERD ($13,000) Labor Market Frictions, the Organization of Labor, and Structural Change with Ananya Kotia (LSE) and Chinmay Lohani (UPenn) Funding: PEDL ($50,000), STEG ($18,000) …