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.

His research interests include economics of human capital, migration, and trade.

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Academic CV

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

Coordination:

• Honours (Economics): 2021-2023
• Master of Economics: 2021-2023
• Master of Public Policy (Economics): 2021-2023

Supervision (completion year and first placement in parentheses):

• PhD: Adnan Fakir (2022, University of Sussex, Brighton); Nauman Malik (2024, Telethon Institute), Erica Lukas (2025, Curtin University), Xin Shao (submitted, 2025), Asep Nurwanda (submitted, 2025), Kesavarajah Kathan Mayandy (expected 2026), Adi Swasito (expected 2026), Manh Vu (expected 2027), Lana Pavlovic (expected 2027), Teguh Warsito (expected 2028), Dono Iskandar (expected 2029), Indra Mambea (expected 2029), Randi Kurniawan (expected 2029)
• Masters: Yadav Padhyoti (2020, Ministry of Agriculture, Kathmandu); Henat Brar (2021, Macquarie Bank, Sydney); Hui En Tan (2022,
  Department of Finance WA); Mehardeep Kaur (expected 2026)
• 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), Catherine Calder (2024, Department of Treasury, Perth), Jarod O’Beirne (2024, Department of Defence, Canberra), Oliver Constantine (Curtin University, 2025)
• B. Phil Research Placement: Jake Range (2023), Alex Pham (2024)

External:

• ERIA, 2024: Employment Transition in Asia (AUD 12,000)
• 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:

• Business School Research Grant, 2025 (AUD 10,000)
• Early Career Research Award, 2024 (AUD 2,500)
• Research Collaboration Award, 2022 (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, A. M. S., and Khan, A. S. (2025) Media Reporting of Sexual Violence and Female Labor Force Participation Decision in Rural Bangladesh. (accepted, Journal of Population Economics)
• Bharati, T. and Rapeport, S. (2025) How smart is SunSmart? In utero sunlight exposure and asthma in Australia. (accepted, American Journal of Health Economics)
• Bharati, T., Banerjee, R., Fakir, A. M. S., 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., Mavisakalyan, A., and Vu, L. (2024) Intimate partner violence and child health. GLO Discussion Paper No. 1413.
• Bharati, T. and Fakir, A. M. S., (2025) Health costs of a “healthy democracy”: The impact of peaceful protests on healthcare utilization.