Karra Receives Hariri Institute Research Incubation Award
Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has received a Research Incubation Award (RIA) from the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing.
Karra received the award for a project on print shops and contracts, entitled “Can I Get That In Writing? Lessons From a Contracting Field Experiment in Urban Malawi.”
The RIA program is immensely popular, and highly competitive with Karra’s project only one of 12 that the Hariri Institute selected for funding for its Spring 2019 solicitation.
The goal of the Hariri Institute Research Incubation Awards Program is to support a portfolio of early-stage research projects with significant potential to cultivate new collaborations and to enable follow-on extramural funding in the near future. These goals are highly aligned with the Hariri Institute’s mission as an incubator which is set up to initiate, analyze, and propel transformative computational and data-driven research across the landscape of academic disciplines at BU. As an incubator, the Hariri Institute sees itself not only as a funding source, but more so as a partner.
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.