Dr. Tushar Bharati is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) 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)
• Masters: Yadav Padhyoti (2020, Ministry of Agriculture, Kathmandu); Henat Brar (2021, Macquarie Bank, Sydney); Hui En Tan (expected 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 (expected 2022)

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:

• 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. (2021) The long shadow of the Kargil War: The effect of early-life stress on education. (Accepted, Economics and Human Biology)
• Bharati, T. and Yoman, W (2021) Internal migration and labor market outcomes in Indonesia. (R&R, EDCC)\
• Fakir, Adnan M. S., and Bharati, T. (2021) Healthy, nudged, and wise: Experimental evidence on the role of cost reminders in healthy decision-making. (R&R, Health Economics)
• Bharati, T. and Rapeport, S. (2021) How smart is SunSmart? In utero sunlight exposure and asthma in Australia. (R&R, Economic Record)
• Ekanayake, N. S. P., Madsen, J. B., Bharati, T. (2021) Sophistication of Traded Goods and Economic Growth (Reject&Resub, Journal of Economic Growth)
• Bharati, T., Farhad, M., and Jetter, M. (2021) On the relationship between trade openness and government size. (under review)
• Banerjee, R. and Bharati, T. (2021) Mass shootings and infant health in the United States. (under review)
• Bharati, T., Change, S., and Li, Qing (2021) ‘Bachelors’ and Babies: The Effect of Tertiary Education Expansion on Fertility. (under review)
• Bharati, T. (2020) Co-ethnic voters and candidate choice by political parties. (under review)
• Bharati, T., Qian, Y., and Yun, J. (2021) Fueling the engines of liberation with cleaner cooking fuel. (under review)

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