Arun Gautham Chandrasekhar

Arun G. Chandrasekhar is Professor of Economics at Stanford University. As a development economist, his research is largely focused on social learning, informal finance, partial market completion, health behavior, and redistribution. He was awarded the Infosys Prize 2024 in Economics for his research on the impacts of networks on economic interactions in developing economies.

As a 2022-2023 Design Fellow, his research project focused on increasing vaccination rates among children and adults in India given that both childhood immunization and Covid-19 vaccination rates are low in India due to a range of behavioral and structural factors that act as barriers.