Sujata Visaria

Research Fellow
Assistant Professor, Economics, Boston University
svisaria@bu.edu
617 353 6150

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Expertise

Economic Development, Legal Reform, Conflict, Public Accountability.

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Biography

Sujata Visaria’s research focuses on understanding institutional constraints to development. Her previous work has examined the impact of legal reform on credit market outcomes, demonstrated an alternative approach to computing global poverty estimates, and investigated the patterns of communal violence in urban India. Her current work focuses on the longer-term consequences of religious violence, informational constraints to the marketing of agricultural produce, and the influence of information and “social audits” in public accountability.

Most of her research involves an empirical analysis of detailed primary data collected from government and private sources, and through household surveys.