Steven Brownstone's Retro Website

This version of my website honors old-school pure HTML academic websites like my father's David Brownstone I have many privileges and my father being an academic is one.

Backgound

I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in economics at the University of California San Diego. My research is in development economics, agricultural economics, and political economy. I partner with CEGIS and J-PAL South Asia for my projects in India. I have a bachelor's degree from Brown University, where I majored in Math-Economics. Before starting at Brown, I worked at IDinsight. First, as an associate in Lusaka, Zambia and then as a Junior Economist in New Delhi, India

Research

• Leveraging Local Governments to Support Rice Mechanization in India
• The Long Shadow of Feudalism: The Persistent Concentration of Land and Power from Princely to Postcolonial India
• with Kartik Srivastava
• Leaning In or Pushing Down: Do female leaders help other women achieve career successes in the Indian bureaucracy?
• with Vivian Aluoch
• Managing What You Can Measure? The Promises and Pitfalls of Measuring Bureaucrat Performance
• with Advitha Arun, Siddharth George, Naveen Kumar