Subha Mani
Professor, Economics Department, Arts and Sciences
Areas of Research:
Development economics, Applied Micro and Applied Econometrics
Dr. Subha Mani is a Professor of Economics and a Research Associate at the Center for International Policy Studies at Fordham University. She is also affiliated with the Research Consortium on Disability, International Political Economy and Development (IPED) program, and the Department of African and African American Studies (AAAS) at Fordham.
Subha also holds a Research Affiliate position at the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania and Research Fellow positions at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Subha is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Population Economics and Oxford Open Economics
She has her BA (honors) degree in economics from Delhi University, Masters degrees in economics from Mumbai University and University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Southern California.
Her areas of specialization are development economics, program evaluation, field experiments, applied econometrics, applied microeconomics, health, and education. Subha’s main area of interest is in understanding the causes and pathways through which human capital (health, education, vocational training, language training) can be accumulated for young children and adults in low- and middle-income countries.
Subha has worked on numerous experimental and non-experimental evaluation studies. She has additionally undertaken extensive primary data collection, fieldwork, and management in India. Her scholarly work has received external funding support from the International Growth Center – India Central, 3ie (International Initiatives for Impact Evaluation), National Science Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, REACH Trust Fund at the World Bank.