Krishna Kumar oversees NORC’s research covering economics, education, international development, and public affairs, as well as The Bridge at NORC. Krishna is an economist and research executive with nearly three decades of experience teaching, researching, and influencing economic policy across the globe. From designing the economic development blueprint in North Korea to advancing global citizenship in America, Krishna has forged a reputable career in research and global affairs. In his work with Syrian refugees, he and his team uncovered mutually beneficial opportunities for the refugees and host countries in the Middle East. Krishna has studied informal labor markets in Bangladesh, developed a comprehensive model of U.S. labor market inequality, and calculated the gross regional product of the Kurdistan Region–Iraq. Additionally, he worked to implement a labor force survey to collect data for the Kurdistan Regional Government to understand the region’s unemployment rate and develop a data collection system.
Krishna conducted a randomized control trial evaluation of an agricultural training program in China to improve farmer decisions, and evaluated the socioeconomic impact on the working poor of moving into permanent housing in India. He also studied the effect of U.S. federal funding of life sciences research on university R&D and commercialization, the role of economic and social policies in Mexico’s development, the effect of public policy on Indian entrepreneurship, and he conducted a comparative analysis of the Indian and Chinese education systems. Krishna’s research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals focusing on economic growth and development and macroeconomics.
Programming Partner: NORC at the University of Chicago
