Purnima Kanther

Purnima is a Trinity as a Grattan Scholar under Dr Michael King. Her research focuses on Financial and Political Behaviour. Her current research focuses on democratic accountability in India by examining state level data on national and state elections, natural disasters and government spending for 30 Indian states to study voter’s behaviour towards public spending with varied visibility and its impact on governments behaviour. She is also working on a paper on financial literacy among youth in Philadelphia by examining effectiveness of different types of incentives. Purnima was a teaching assistant on the Introduction to Economic Policy module for first-year undergraduate students. 

Purnima received an MSc in Economics from the University of Leicester in 2011 where she was awarded the best economics student award. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a Research Assistant at Euromoney Institutional Investors, London where she developed a sentiment index for purchase managers and as a Research Associate at CAFRAL, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai where she worked on CAFRAL’s internal projects on financial inclusion and debt restructuring.