Jalnidh Kaur joined the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School in August 2024. She is a development economist studying topics in the economics of education. Her work draws on insights from psychology and behavioural economics to understand how informational and behavioural barriers shape human capital investments, and how psychosocial tools can be leveraged to overcome adversity in low-income settings. She has ongoing projects in India, Pakistan, and Kenya. Most of her work uses randomised controlled trials to answer questions of policy relevance.

She earned her PhD in Economics and Education from Columbia University, an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA (Hons) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. Before beginning her doctoral studies, she worked as a research associate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) in South Asia and taught high-school economics at Akal Academies in India.

Personal website: Jalnidh Kaur

Jalnidh is a member of the School's Applied Economics research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

• Development economics
• Behavioral economics
• Economics of education