Rai Bhavna

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Bhavna Rai

Assistant Professor, Economics and Public Policy

Email Bhavna_Rai@isb.edu

Website https://sites.google.com/view/bhavnarai

Overview

Bhavna Rai is an econometrician and her current research develops new and improved methods for dealing with missing data - a ubiquitous problem in empirical work. Her methods span both cross section and panel data with linear as well as nonlinear models. She is interested in applying these methods to empirical questions in microeconomics. She has also briefly worked on energy and environmental policy issues confronting India and other developing countries.

Bhavna has a PhD in economics from Michigan State University, MA in economics from Delhi School of Economics, and BA in economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce.

Experience

Academic

2021 - Present: Assistant Profesor, Indian School of Business
2016 - 2021: Teaching Assistant, Michigan State University
2019 - 2019: Instructor, Michigan State University
2018 - 2018: Instructor, Michigan State University
2018 - 2018: Research Assistant, Michigan State University
2016 - 2016: Consultant, Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
2016 - 2016: Research Assistant, Altura Partners

Research & Publications

Published Papers

Rai, Bhavna. (2023) "Efficient estimation with missing data and endogeneity", Econometric Reviews

Working Papers

Rai, Bhavna. "Imputing missing covariate values in nonlinear models" Rai, Bhavna., Wooldridge, Jeffrey. "Efficient estimation of linear panel data models with missing covariates"

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