Khushbu Mishra
Associate Professor of Economics
Khushbu Mishra finished her PhD in Applied Economics from The Ohio State University in the summer of 2017. Her work broadly focuses on Gender and Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, and Impact Evaluation. She completed her BA. in Economics and Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College in MA.
- PhD, applied economics, Ohio State University, 2017
- PhD, agricultural, environmental and development economics, Ohio State University
- BA, economics and mathematics, Mount Holyoke College

Biography
Khushbu Mishra finished her PhD in applied economics from The Ohio State University in the summer of 2017. Her work broadly focuses on gender and development economics, agricultural economics and impact evaluation. She completed her BA. in economics and mathematics from Mount Holyoke College in MA. Besides working as a research assistant for a USAID/BASIS funded Randomized Control Trial Project on Index Insurance in Ghana under Professors Mario J. Miranda and Abdoul G. Sam, she has worked as a consultant for the World Bank Group and UNICEF.
Born in a rural society in Nepal where the majority of families depend on agriculture for their living, Mishra is passionate to formulate innovative solutions to reducing social inequalities in developing, agrarian economies.
More About Khushbu Mishra
Areas of Expertise
- Impact Evaluation
- Gender
- Risk and Insurance
- Intra-household Decision-making
Course Sampling
- ECON 300 Intermediate Microeconomics
- ECON 346 Economic Development
- ECON 366 Health Economics
- ECON 374Q Econometrics I
- ECON 475 Econometrics II
- ECON 498 Senior Research Proposal
- ECON 499 Senior Thesis
- Gender and development economics
- Agricultural economics
- Impact evaluation
- Mishra, Gallenstein, Sam, Miranda, Toledo, & Mulangu. 2023. Does bundling credit with index insurance boost
Agricultural technology adoption? Agricultural Economics. - Mishra & Gallenstein. 2022. Gender and Willingness to Pay for Insured Loans: Empirical Evidence from Ghana.
Journal of Development Studies. - Mishra, Kondratjeva, & Shively. 2022. Do Remittances Reshape Household Welfare? Evidence from Nepal. World
Development. - Bocci & Mishra. 2021. Impact of Concession Membership on Female Household Responsibilities. Ecological
Economics. - Gallenstein, Flatnes, Dougherty, Sam, & Mishra. 2021. The Impact of Index Insurance and Joint Liability Loan
Contracts on Risk Taking: Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment in Tanzania. Agricultural Economics. - Gallenstein, Dougherty, & Mishra. 2021. A microfinance model of endogenous effort and insurable covariate risk.
Journal of African Economies. - Mishra, Gallenstein, Miranda, Sam, Toledo, & Mulangu. 2020. Impact of Index-Insured Loans on Access to Credit: An
Experimental Study in Northern Ghana. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. - Mishra, Sam, Diiro, & Miranda. 2020. Gender and Dynamics of Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from
Uganda. Agricultural Economics. - Mishra & Rampal. 2020. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Food In Security: A Viewpoint on India. World Development.
- Gallenstein, Mishra, Sam, & Miranda. 2019. Willingness to Pay for Insured Loans in Northern Ghana. Journal of
Agricultural Economics. - Mishra & Sam. 2016. Impact of Land Ownership on Women Empowerment: Evidence from Nepal. World
Development.