Prakash Mishra

Prakash is a fourth-year PhD student in the Applied Economics program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He focuses on the intersection of environmental economics, industrial organization, and economic development. His current research focuses on quantifying both privately and socially inefficient deforestation. Using a unique global land use dataset, his work evaluates how carbon pricing, deforestation taxes, and other common first-best policy proposals impact the spatial reallocation of economic activity. Prakash is a graduate of the systems engineering department at Penn, a former Philadelphia Fed research intern, and an avid triathlete in his spare time