Karra Named Max Planck Sabbatical Award Laureate
Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School for Global Studies at Boston University, has been appointed as a Max Planck Sabbatical Award Laureate for 2020. The Max Planck Society launched the Max Planck Sabbatical Award in order to support scientists by awarding them research stays at the Max Planck Institutes as well as flexible research funding of up to 150,000 Euros for the period.
This award aims to intensify existing research cooperation, prepare long-term projects with colleagues at Max Planck, and will give Karra the opportunity to learn about the Institute and the German academic research environment. Through this award, Karra plans to be at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) during his sabbatical in 2021.
When asked to comment on the award, Karra said the following:
I am beyond thrilled to receive this Sabbatical Award. I am truly grateful to the Max Planck Society for their continued commitment to support collaborations between researchers from around the world, and I look forward to working with my colleagues at MPIDR next year.
At Max Planck, I hope to begin a new project related to my ongoing research on the Demographic Dividend and the effect of demographic transitions on human capital and economic development. In addition, I am particularly excited to collaborate with my colleagues at Max Planck and at the GDP Center‘s Human Capital Initiative on a new portfolio of projects under the Program on Women’s Empowerment Research (POWER), for which we recently received support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Mahesh Karra’s academic and research interests are broadly in development economics, health economics, quantitative methods, and applied demography. His research utilizes experimental and non-experimental methods to investigate the relationships between population, health, and economic development in low- and middle-income countries. Read more about him here.