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Achyuta Adhvaryu

University of Michigan, USA

IZAs World of Labor provides a necessary, high-quality, and often missing bridge between academics and policy making. I hope this vehicle for information dissemination is widely read by policymakers and incorporated into decision making about labor policy at all levels of government

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Research interest

Development economics, health economics

Website

https://www.achadhvaryu.com/

Past positions

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Yale University, 2009–2013

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Yale University, 2009

Selected publications

  • "Health, enterprise, and labor complementarity in the household." Journal of Development Economics 126 (2017): 91–111 (with A. Nyshadham).

  • "Endowments at birth and parents’ investments in children." Economic Journal 126:593 (2016): 1018–1054 (with A. Nyshadham).

  • "Returns to treatment in the formal health care sector: Evidence from Tanzania." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7:3 (2015): 29–57 (with A. Nyshadham).

  • "Learning, misallocation, and technology adoption: Evidence from new malaria therapy in Tanzania." Review of Economic Studies 81:4 (2014): 1331–1365.

  • "Firing costs and flexibility: Evidence from firms' labor adjustments to shocks in India." Review of Economics and Statistics 95:3 (2013): 725–740 (with A. Chari and S. Sharma).

article(s)

  • Managerial quality and worker productivity in developing countries

    Business consulting and supervisory skills training can improve firm productivity and labor relations

    Achyuta Adhvaryu, February 2018
    Productivity differences across firms and countries are surprisingly large and persistent. Recent research reveals that the country-level distributions of productivity and quality of management are strikingly similar, suggesting that management practices may play a key role in the determination of worker and firm productivity. Understanding the causal impacts of these practices on productivity and the effectiveness of various management interventions is thus of primary policy interest.
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