Makes even dry topics interesting.
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Patient, kind, and always approachable.
Girish Bahal is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the UWA Business School, University of Western Australia. He obtained his PhD in Economics and MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge-Nehru scholar. Prior to joining UWA in 2018, Bahal worked at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., and the National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi. His research specializations encompass networks in economics, macroeconomics, and labor economics. Bahal has published in prominent journals such as the European Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and World Bank Economic Review. He serves as a reviewer for Oxford Economic Papers since 2017 and The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics since 2015.
Among his key publications are "Religion, Covid-19 and mental health" (2023, European Economic Review, co-authored with Iyer, Shastry, and Shrivastava), "Industries on the edge: The most exposed sectors to microeconomic shocks" (2023, Economics Letters, with Lenzo), "Beyond Domar Weights: A New Measure of Systemic Importance in Production Networks" (2023, CAMA working paper series, with Lenzo), "Religion and Employment in India" (2024, Studies in Religion and the Everyday, Oxford University Press, with Chandra, Iyer, and Shrivastava), "A Tale of Two Programs: Assessing Treatment and Control in NREGA Studies" (2022, World Bank Economic Review), "Supply variabilities in public workfares" (2021, with Shrivastava), and "Fiscal transfers and inflation: Evidence from India" (2020, UWA Economics Discussion Paper). Bahal has received the Raymond Burton Award (2016), Cambridge Nehru Scholarship (2015), Suzy Paine Award (2014), Hughes Hall award (2013), and EM Burnett Prize (2011). He is Chief Investigator on the UWA project "The Origins of Supply Chain Risk: How Firms Select Suppliers" (2026–2026, with Chatterjee, Kumar, and Lenzo) and has been an investigator on "Religion and Covid-19" (University of Cambridge, 2020–2022) and "Social Identities and the Labour Market: What Can Household Surveys Reveal?" (Gates Foundation, 2019–2022, with Basole, Swaminathan, Lahoti, Abraham, Shrivastava, and Goel).