Dr. Tushar Bharati is a Senior Lecturer at the UWA Business School. Tushar received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 2018.

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Academic CV

• Primary Fields: Development, Education, Health, Labour
• Secondary Fields: Conflict, Migration, Public Choice, Trade

Coordination:

• Honours (Economics): 2021 onwards
• Master of Economics: 2021 onwards
• Master of Public Policy (Economics): 2021 onwards

Supervision (completion year and first placement in parentheses):

• PhD: Adnan Fakir (2022, University of Sussex, Brighton); Nauman Malik (expected 2023), Erica Lukas (expected 2025), Xin Shao (expected 2025), Asep Nurwanda (expected 2025), Kesavarajah
  Kesavan (expected 2025), Adi Swasito (expected 2026)
• Masters: Yadav Padhyoti (2020, Ministry of Agriculture, Kathmandu); Henat Brar (2021, Macquarie Bank, Sydney); Hui En Tan (2022)
• Honours: Grace Nagle (2019, Treasury, Canberra); Wina Yoman (2019, Bain & Partners, Perth), Thea Green (2020, Juris Doctor, UWA), Sam Rapeport (2020, Department of Education, Skills, and Employment, Canberra), Rachel Lee (2021, Deloitte, Sydney), Matt Simich (2022, Musician)
• B. Phil Research Placement: Jake Range (2023)

External:

• IFPRI, 2021: Education and Intimate Partner Violence (USD 25,000)
• ADBI, 2021: Online Market Place and Women (USD 12,000)
• BRICS 2019 Economic Research Award (USD 22,500)
• ERIA, 2019: Human Capital Development in Asia (USD 10,000)
• PAFTAD: 2019 Young Scholar Fellowship 

Internal:

• Research Collaboration Award (AUD 29,675)
• Futures Fund Research Grants 2021 × 2 (AUD 9,645)
• ALCOA Visitors Grant, 2020 (USD 5,000)
• G Milne Research Launch grant, 2019 (USD 10,000) 

• Bharati, T., Fakir, Adnan M. S., and Yoman, W. (2023) Internal migration and labor market outcomes in Indonesia. (Accepted, Economic Development and Cultural Change)
• Bharati, T., Change, S., and Li, Qing (2023) On the identification of tertiary education effect on fertility. (R&R, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)
• Bharati, T., Jung, D., Banerjee, R., and Chin, S. (2023) Recovery from an early-life shock through improved access to schools. (R&R, Journal of Human Capital)
• Bharati, T. and Rapeport, S. (2023) How smart is SunSmart? In utero sunlight exposure and asthma in Australia. (R&R, American Journal of Health Economics)
• Bharati, T., Banerjee, R., Fakir, A., Qian, Y., and Sunder, N. (2023) COVID-19 and Online Labour Markets: Is the Gig Economy a Magic Bullet? (Reject & Resubmit, ILR Review)
• Bharati, T., Jetter, M., and Malik, N. (2023) Types of communication technology and civil conflict. (under review)
• Bharati, T. and Fakir, M. S. (2023) Health Costs of a “Healthy Democracy”: The Impact of Peaceful Protests on Healthcare Utilization. (under review)
• Banerjee, R. and Bharati, T. (2023) Mass shootings and infant health in the United States. (under review)
• Bharati, T., Qian, Y., and Yun, J. (2022) Fueling the engines of liberation with cleaner cooking fuel. (under review)
• Bharati, T. (2021) Co-ethnic voters and candidate choice by political parties.

• Native / Bilingual Proficiency: English, Hindi, Angika
• Elementary Proficiency: Maithli, Bengali, Punjabi