Prachi is a Lecturer at University of Aberdeen’s Department of Economics. Previously, she was a High Meadows Post-Doctoral Economics Fellow at Environmental Defense Fund, NY (2021-2022). She has been a visiting faculty at Ashoka University and also worked as an Associate Fellow in Development Economics vertical at Brookings Institution India Center for 2 years (2018 to 2020). She has completed my PhD in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.

Her research interests lie in environmental and health economics. In her job market paper she explored the relationship between in-utero exposure to crop burning/forest fires and child health (in India). She also did an impact evaluation of information campaign about arsenic contamination to assess its link to marriage patterns in rural Bangladesh. In her other papers, she has explored how crop-burning patterns are associated with cardiovascular health and adolescent height.