Divya is an LSE fellow at the Department of Social Policy at LSE. Prior to joining LSE, she was a Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Warwick and was awarded the ESRC Innovation Fellowship. Divya holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick and an MSc in Economics from LSE.

Divya’s broad research interests include Economics of Education, Labour Economics, Development Economics, Policy Evaluation and Applied Microeconometrics. She is currently working on a project studying the technical and vocational educational sector in the UK. She is also particularly interested in evaluating Education and Health reforms in developing countries, with a focus on identifying policies that improve school participation, student learning, health and labour market outcomes.