Kalyani Raghunathan joined IFPRI as an Associate Research Fellow in June, 2015. Her research interests lie in the evaluation of social protection schemes, and her dissertation largely focused on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in India. Currently she is working on the PRADAN and JEEViKA projects as part of the Poverty, Health and Nutrition (PHN) team. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University in May, 2015, and a Master’s in Quantitative Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, in May, 2010.”