Nitin Kumar Bharti

Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BTech Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, MA Paris School of Economics; PhD Paris School of Economics and University of Namur

Research Areas: Economic inequality, education economics, conflict economics, India and China


Nitin Bharti is a postdoctoral scholar in the Economics department of the New York University-Abu Dhabi. He received his Ph.D. from the Paris School of Economics and the University of Namur in 2022. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree from IIT-Kharagpur and has two years of experience working in the corporate sector. He is an applied micro-economist, and his research interests lie in understanding the development of educational systems and their linkage with economic growth and inequality. He is also interested in studying the long-term evolution of economic inequalities in the South Asia region.