Rajdev Brar

I am a PhD student in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Previously, I worked at the World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab and at the Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia. Here is my CV.

Work in progress

“Information-seeking behavior among high school students in India”
(with Rubina Hundal)

“Bundled contract farming and microloans for climate-resilient agricultural production in Egypt”
(with Amira El-Shal, Jeremy Magruder)

“Testing a budgeting intervention to address seasonal hunger”
(with Kelsey Jack, Supreet Kaur, Nicholas Swanson)

“Household-level impacts of increasing women’s financial control in Côte d’Ivoire”
(with Aletheia Donald)

Publications

Resisting social conformity pressure: Impact of a gender norms intervention for adolescents in Somalia
Journal of Development Economics (2026)
(with Niklas Buehren, Sreelakshmi Papineni, Munshi Sulaiman)

Other writing

Engaging men for women’s economic empowerment: Overview of the evidence
World Bank Policy Brief, Africa Gender Innovation Lab (2023)
(with Rachel Pierotti, Clara Delavallade)

Understanding the dynamics of gender norms in Somalia: A behavioral approach
World Bank Blog: Let’s Talk Development (2023)
(with Niklas Buehren, Sreelakshmi Papineni, Munshi Sulaiman)

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You can reach me at rajdevbrar[at]berkeley.edu