Bansi Malde Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies

Institute for Fiscal Studies 7 Ridgmount Street

London WC1E 7AE, UK. +44 20 7291 4800

bansi_m@ifs.org.uk http://www.ifs.org.uk/people/profile?id=334

EMPLOYMENT Oct. 2010 - present Senior Research Economist, Centre for Evaluation of Development

Policies, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London. Sep. 2007 – Sep. 2010 Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London. July 2007 – Sep. 2007 Summer Intern, Centre for Insurance and Risk Management, Chennai,

India. July 2006 – Aug. 2006 Research Assistant, Centre for Markets and Public Organisation,

University of Bristol. EDUCATION 2009 - Ongoing MPhil/Phd. Economics, University College London (part-time). 2006-2007 MSc. Economics for Development (Distinction), University of Oxford. 2002-2006 BSc. Economics and Econometrics with Study in France (First Class

Honours), University of Bristol. 2004-2005 Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, ERASMUS exchange

student.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS “Empirically Probing the Quantity-Quality Model” with E. Fitzsimons, Journal of Population Economics. Jan 2014, Vol. 27(1), pp. 33-68. WORKING PAPERS AND MIMEOS “Nutrition, Information and Household Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from Malawi” with E. Fitzsimons, A. Mesnard and M. Vera-Hernandez, IFS WP 14/02, 2014 (Revise and Resubmit). “Does increased interaction help smooth consumption? Evidence from Malawi” with E. Fitzsimons and M. Vera-Hernandez, mimeo, 2011. “Empirical Methods for Networks Data: Social Effects, Network Formation and Measurement Error”, with A. Advani, IFS WP (W14/34), 2014. OTHER PUBLICATIONS “The Randomised Evaluation Revolution”, Economic Review, November 2008. “Child Development and Policy Interventions in Developing Countries”, with A. Andrew, EDePo Research At A Glance, 2014. SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS “Family Networks and Infant Health Promotion: Evidence from a Cluster Randomised Control Trial in Malawi” (joint with M. Vera-Hernandez and M. Scott). “Network Structure and Risk Sharing in Extended Family Networks” “Group Size, Coalitional Deviations and Informal Risk Sharing” (joint with M. Vera-Hernandez and E. Fitzsimons).

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS 2013-2017 SIEF, World Bank. Understanding the Links and Interactions between Low

Sanitation and Health Insurance in India. Role: Co-I; PI: O. Attanasio 2012-2015 ESRC. Characterising Informal Risk Sharing in Family Networks in Rural Mexico.

Role: PI 2012-2015 ESRC-DFID. Improving Productivity in Developing Countries: Identifying

Bottlenecks and Obstacles to Productive Investments and Technology Adoption. Role: Co-I; PI: O. Attanasio

2010-2011 US Department of Labor. Do participatory interventions improve informal risk sharing? Evidence from Rural Malawi. Role: Co-I; PIs: M. Vera-Hernandez, E. Fitzsimons

2008-2010 ESRC. How Family Size Affects Children’s Schooling and Work in Rural Mexico. Role: Co-I; PI: E. Fitzsimons

2006 Queen Elizabeth House Commonwealth Scholarship, University of Oxford. RESEARCH VISITS Feb – March 2015 Yale University CONFERENCE & SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS (inc. scheduled) EEA-ESEM (2008), LACEA (2010), RES (2011, 2012, 2015), African Econometric Society (2011), IFS Seminar (2011, 2013, 2015), CSAE Annual Conference (2012), UCL (2012), NCRM Research Methods Festival (2012, 2014), 7th PopPov Conference (2013), PEPA Inference Workshop, IFS (2013), NEUDC, Harvard (2013), IFS Phd mini-conference (2013), EDePo Workshop (multiple times), Econometric Society World Congress (2015, scheduled), DIAL Conference, Paris (2015, scheduled), EEA (2015, scheduled), EDePo Conference (2015, scheduled). TEACHING EXPERIENCE Guest Lecturer, MSc Development Economics course, City University, London (Dec 2012, 2013, 2014). IFS Public Economics Lectures - Cambridge, Oxford, London (2013) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Referee for: European Economic Review, Economics of Education Review, Fiscal Studies, Health Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Quantitative Economics OTHER SERVICE IFS Computing Committee (2010 – present); IFS Summer Student Recruitment (2011, 2012) Organiser of the EDePo Workshop (2010 – 2011); Co-organiser, IFS Phd mini-conference (2013). IT SKILLS Microsoft Office (extensive use), STATA (extensive use), Mata (Proficient), R (Proficient), Julia (Intermediate), LyX (proficient), Latex (Basic) LANGUAGES English (Native), Gujarati (Native), French (fluent), Swahili (intermediate), Hindi (intermediate).