Karan Talathi is Assistant Professor - Economics at FLAME University. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of California, Irvine. During his doctoral studies, he was also associated with the Asian Development Bank as a Consultant and a Research Intern. 

His research is at the intersection of Economic Development, Political Economy, and Public Economics and examines differences in institutions (historical and contemporary), government policies (e.g., decentralization), political accountability, and geography to better understand regional disparity in economic development and growth within development countries, with India as a leading example. He uses innovative measures constructed using high resolution spatial data (e.g., satellite data), government administrative data, elections data, and survey data to address challenges pertaining to the unavailability of conventional economic data higher levels of spatial disaggregation. He also relies on GIS data and techniques for measures on physical infrastructure, geographical characteristics, and climatic conditions. 

More information on his research can be found on his personal website;