Sunil's research focuses on questions related to inequality and discrimination, particularly in the context of development. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Development Studies and Economia Politica, and he is currently leading an ESRC-funded project on the role of small firms in UK-India trade. Sunil received his PhD in Economics from the University of East Anglia, his MA in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, and his BA (Hons) in Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University. During 2005-2008 he worked for the Social Initiatives Group of ICICI Bank, an erstwhile major funder of non-profit activities in India. You can view Sunil's website here.

Research

• Inequality
• Discrimination
• Causal inference
• Microeconometrics
• Caste
• India's economic development

Sunil's current research pertains to caste inequalities and discrimination in India's economic development, access to credit for households and small firms, inequalities in education in Latin America, and methodological approaches to causal inference in the context of these questions.

Teaching

Postgraduate

• 7YYISGA3 Introduction to Research Methods
• 7YYD0025 Advanced Quantitative Methods for Causal Inference

PhD supervision

Sunil welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students in areas that overlap with one or more of the following:

• Inequality and discrimination
• India's economic development
• The role of caste
• Microeconometrics and causal inference using observational data

Further details

See Sunil's research profile