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Niharika Singh is an economist in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. Prior to this, she was an assistant professor of economics and a Kellogg faculty fellow at the University of Notre Dame (2023–2026). As a labor and development economist, her research primarily focuses on South Asia and the US, covering topics such as job search and recruitment, migration, labor unions, and gender.

Singh’s publications include the coauthored “Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants” in American Economic Review and “Hiring Frictions and the Promise of Online Job Portals: Evidence from India,” which is forthcoming in the American Economic Review: Insights. She has refereed articles in American Economic Review: Insights; Economics of Education Review; Journal of Development Economics; and Review of Economics and Statistics.

Prior to coming to Notre Dame, Singh was a postdoctoral research fellow at INCITE, an interdisciplinary social science research institute at Columbia University.

She holds a PhD in public policy from Harvard University.

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