Academic Vita [pdf]
Ph.D., Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
M.Sc., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
B.A., Economics, Oberlin College, 1997

Courses Taught:
Global 130: Global Economy and Development [syllabus – Fall 2008]
Global 234: Microeconomics for Global Studies [syllabus – Winter 2009]
Global 236: Macroeconomics, Trade and Development [syllabus – Spring 2008]

Bio:
AASHISH MEHTA is Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  He is an empirical development economist with wide-ranging interests.  He has published work on the economics of education, income inequality, electricity sector reforms and regulation, price transmission, the coffee crisis, discrimination, and the evolving composition of employment in developing economies.

Before joining UCSB, he served as an economist at the Asian Development Bank, where he initially provided analytical support for electricity sector reforms in several Central Asian Republics and later the Philippines.  Subsequently, he served in the Bank’s research department, writing about macroeconomic developments in Asia – especially in India.

Currently, he is working on papers examining why wage distributions fracture when trade is liberalized; on the types of jobs that are growing and shrinking in the developing world; and on the problems faced by organizations that distribute subsidized food through subsidiaries whose actions cannot be controlled.  He is also working on a survey of the literature and empirical evidence on aid-dependence.