Faculty
Namrata Kala is an Associate Professor in Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
She is an economist with research interests in environmental and development economics. Her current research projects include studying how firms and households learn about and adapt to environmental change and regulation, the returns to environmental technologies, and the returns to worker training and incentives.
From fall 2015 to 2017, Namrata was a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard University and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in environmental economics from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale. She also holds a BA (Honors) in economics from Delhi University, and an MA in international and development economics from Yale University.
Jack, Kelsey, Seema Jayachandran, Namrata Kala, and Rohini Pande. AER: Insights. Forthcoming. MIT Climate Portal.
Kala, Namrata. Econometrica. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper.
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, James Fenske, Namrata Kala, and Anant Nyshadham. Economic Development and Cultural Change Vol. 72, No. 2 (2024): 493-515.
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Namrata Kala, and Anant Nyshadham. Journal of Political Economy Vol. 131, No. 8 (2023): 2165-2208.
Kala, Namrata, Clare Balboni, and Shweta Bhogale. VoxDevLit, June 2023. VoxDevLit.
Fenske, James, Namrata Kala, and Jinlin Wei. Journal of Development Economics Vol. 161, (2023): 103038.
Attentive managers move workers when their environments get too toxic, new research finds.
MIT Sloan experts share their knowledge and experience about the benefits of critical thinking and collaboration.
For associate professor Namrata Kala, India continues to be a research focus to understand how climate change affects companies.
"Finding effective ways to make farmers prefer crop residue management to burning would bring large gains to society."
