Faculty
Tavneet Suri is the Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her expertise is in the role of technology in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tavneet is an editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics; Co-Chair of the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative at J-PAL; Co-Chair of the Digital Identification and Finance Initiative at J-PAL Africa; a member of the Executive Committee at J-PAL; and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
She holds a BA in economics from Cambridge University, UK, and an MA in International and Development Economics (IDE) and a PhD in economics, both from Yale University.
Featured Publication
"The Long-run Poverty and Gender Impacts of Mobile Money."Suri, Tavneet, and William Jack. Science Vol. 354, No. 6317 (2016): 1288-1292.
Featured Publication
"Risk Sharing and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution."Jack, William, and Tavneet Suri. American Economic Review Vol. 104, No. 1 (2014): 183-223. Download Appendix.
Niehaus, Paul, and Tavneet Suri. In The Handbook of Social Protection, edited by Benjamin A. Olken and Rema Hanna, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Forthcoming.
Jack, William, Michael Kremer, Joost de Laat, and Tavneet Suri. The Review of Economic Studies Vol. 90, No. 6 (2023): 3153-3185.
Jack, William, Michael Kremer, Joost de Laat, and Tavneet Suri. Review of Economic Studies Vol. 90, No. 6 (2023): 3153-3185.
Aker, Jenny, et al. VoxDevLit Vol. 2, No. 2 (2023): 1-33.
Professors Tavneet Suri and Esther Duflo recently participated in a fireside chat at the MIT Sloan Women’s Conference.
A new study suggests that a universal basic income provided stability to impoverished Kenyans in bad times. Could UBI work elsewhere?
Professor Tavneet Suri said: "Technologies only improve yields when farmers can afford them, trust their value, and have access to the right information. Applied labs like Ujala allow us to understand impacts in real-world conditions and build the evidence needed for policies that work across different African contexts."
The idea of a universal basic income is by no means a settled remedy for helping the poor.
Tavneet Suri discusses new evidence from a long-term, large-scale experiment in Kenya evaluating the impacts of providing a UBI.
"We need to see if these effects last. Does it just disappear, or was this enough to keep them going forever?"
For many companies, the topic of sustainability is at the forefront of business agendas. Consumers and stakeholders are demanding greater accountability from organizations, and the regulatory environment is becoming increasingly stringent. However, pursuing the environmental, social, and governance impacts of business is often met with tension. Leaders now need to manage the misconception within business that meeting sustainability goals means compromising profits.
