Dr Malvika Tyagi is an Economist with interest and expertise in applied research on issues laying at the intersection of Development Economics, Law and Economics and Political Economy. She has also done novel work on the Economics of crime in the Indian context, adopting a mixed methods approach, relying on an applied micro and behavioural economics perspective. She is currently expanding on this, and is also planning to venture into work on other public bads. Her overall academic outlook is grounded in the bidirectional role that institutions, both formal and informal, and individual behaviour (including that of state actors), play in shaping each other. Previously, she was visiting George Mason University as Affiliate faculty, prior to which, she was Assistant Professor at IIT Jodhpur, IISER Bhopal, Nalsar and Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at LSE. Her teaching interests include Applied Econometrics, Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, along with exploring its different schools of thought.
Publications:
• Flushed with success: how participation in social schemes influences toilet adoption in rural India, Journal of Biosocial Science, 2025 (with D Kumar, MA Hussain, Md Khan)
• Politically connected firms and access to credit: Evidence from India, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2024 (with MA Hussain)
• Political connections and credit access: evidence from small businesses and microenterprises in India, Small Business Economics, 2024 (with MA Hussain)
• Effect of social capital on vulnerability to violence: empirical evidence from India, Journal of Social and Economic Development, 2021
• Role of political connections in land investment: evidence from rural India, Constitutional Political Economy, 2020 (with MA Hussain)
• Analysis of juvenile crime: Effects of state apparatus, Economic and Political Weekly, 2016
• Understanding juvenile crime: Notes from the field, Economic and Political Weekly, 2016
