Ashutosh Bhuradia

I am an Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Indian Economy (CSIE) at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. I completed my PhD in Education Policy and Program Evaluation at Harvard University, where I was a recipient of the Presidential Fellowship. I conduct research at the intersection of education, development, and labor economics.

Before Harvard, I worked at the Rural Education Action Program (REAP) at Stanford University where I managed large-scale education assessment programs and field experiments.

I have a Bachelor's in electrical engineering from RGPV, India, an MA in Creative Writing from SF State University and an MA in International and Comparative Education from Stanford University.

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Ashutosh Bhuradia

Research

Publications

Papers in Progress

Work in Progress

  • Evaluation of a Technology-Aided Instruction Platform (Mindspark) in Government Schools in Himachal Pradesh (with Abhijeet Singh & Karthik Muralidharan)

    Data collection ongoing

  • Socio-Emotional Skills and Climate Education: A Randomized Evaluation of an Air Quality Curriculum in Indian Schools (with Raisa Sherif)

    Data collection completed; draft in preparation

  • Evaluation of Arts-Integrated Social-Emotional Learning in Indian Government Schools (with Raisa Sherif & Shantanu Khanna)

    Data collection ongoing

  • Building College Students' Expertise in the Era of Generative AI: A Randomized Evaluation of Structured GenAI Training at Four Engineering Colleges in India (with Saloni Gupta)

    Data collection ongoing

  • Going All In: Simultaneously Breaking Down Barriers for Women in the STEM Workforce (with Saloni Gupta)

    Data collection ongoing

Teaching

Using Big Data to Solve Economic & Social Problems (ECON 50A)

Teaching Fellow to Prof Gregory Bruich · Spring 2025Teaching Evaluation

“Ashutosh was EXCELLENT!!!! Amazing office hours, really helps you understand what's going on”

Design & Analysis of Field Experiments in Education (S598)

Teaching Fellow to Prof Susan Dynarski · Fall 2023, Fall 2024Teaching Evaluation

“Ashutosh was my most helpful teaching fellow this semester! He gave such amazing feedback, was generous with his time outside of class, and supported me in feeling reassured throughout this course!.”

Applied Causal Inference in Education Research (S290)

Teaching Fellow to Prof Eric Taylor · Spring 2024Teaching Evaluation

“I appreciate him actively listening to my questions and guiding my research to a better path. He provided me with great resources to develop my research paper too.”

Introductory & Intermediate Statistics for Educational Research (S040)

Teaching Fellow to Prof Joseph McIntyre · Fall 2022, Fall 2023Teaching Evaluation

“Ashutosh was a phenomenal section leader and TF. He willingly made presentations reteaching the content and classmates of mine said he is the sole reason that they could grasp the content. He was available and challenged our thinking and gave us the tools to be successful.”

Intermediate & Advanced Statistics (S052)

Teaching Fellow to Prof Andrew Ho · Spring 2023Teaching Evaluation

“Ashutosh is amazing. Super accessible in and outside class, able to break down concepts easily, he will be a great professor someday, if he so chooses.”

Education Policy Analysis (A801)

Teaching Fellow to Prof Fernando Reimers · Fall 2022Teaching Evaluation

“Ashutosh was my only TF that encouraged open debate and discussion. His section meetings were fun and often exciting as students were given the opportunity to argue their points respectfully...Ashutosh was respectful but also very direct with his feedback so I could 100% trust the critique he was offering.”