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Chandra Kiran Krishnamurthy
Chandra Kiran Krishnamurthy is currently in the third year of the Ph.D. program in Sustainable Development and has varied research interests, including measuring climate change-impact, valuing complex ecosystems, and modeling the dynamics of economic and environmental issues.
Chandra received a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University (India), and a M.Phil. in Economics from the IGIDR (a Development Research Institute in Mumbai, India). His prior work, in his M.Phil. dissertation, focused on modeling the impact of emission restrictions on the Indian economy and evaluating the beneficial effects, economic and environmental, of the introduction of biological fuels in India.
His research at Columbia focuses on distinct issues, such as evaluating trends in extreme rainfall events for India, on addressing the issue of a mismeasured variable in a heterogeneous panel-data setting, and estimating the impact of predicted changes in climate on agriculture in India.