Anshuman Tiwari
Postdoctoral Scholar
Energy Policy Institute at University of Chicago - India
I am postdoctoral scholar at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, India program. Before taking up this position, I was an Environmental Defense Fund fellow at the Environmental Markets Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I conducted doctoral research at the London School of Economics, where I was a Grantham Institute fellow and a member of the STICERD research group on the Economics of Energy and Environment. I hold a Master of Public Policy degree from UC Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad.
I am an applied economist, and I study issues related to sustainable development and economic growth in developing countries. I have studied air and water pollution, climate change, and groundwater depletion. The research questions of interest to me are strongly informed by the specific institutions and political economy of developing countries such as India. I use large geospatial and administrative datasets, as well as machine learning and generative AI methods to overcome missing data challenges. I have utilized structural models of economic geography, various causal inference methods, and big data in my work.
