A little management attention can go a long way
Attentive managers move workers when their environments get too toxic, new research finds.
Faculty
Namrata Kala is the W.Maurice Young (1961) Career Development Professor of Management and an Assistant Professor in Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
She is an economist with research interests in environmental and development economics. Her current research projects include studying how firms and households learn about and adapt to environmental change and regulation, the returns to environmental technologies, and the returns to worker training and incentives.
From fall 2015 to 2017, Namrata was a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard University and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in environmental economics from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale. She also holds a BA (Honors) in Economics from Delhi University, and an MA in International and Development Economics from Yale University.
Fenske, James, and Namrata Kala. Journal of Development Economics Vol. 126, (2017): 66-76.
Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep, Namrata Kala, and Robert Mendelsohn. Climate Change Economics Vol. 2, No. 2 (2011): 149-174.
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Namrata Kala, and Anant Nyshadham. World Bank Economic Review Vol. 35, No. 3 (2021): 586-603.
Fenske, James, and Namrata Kala. Journal of Development Economics Vol. 112, (2015): 19-32.
Caunedo, Julieta, Namrata Kala, and Haimeng Zhang, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6550-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, May 2021.
Kala, Namrata, Working Paper. 2019.
Attentive managers move workers when their environments get too toxic, new research finds.
MIT Sloan experts share their knowledge and experience about the benefits of critical thinking and collaboration.
"Finding effective ways to make farmers prefer crop residue management to burning would bring large gains to society."