Kartik Srivastava is a third-year PhD candidate at Harvard University's Kennedy School. His research is in development economics, labor economics, and political economy. He has a bachelor's degree from Yale University, where he majored in Economics and Engineering Sciences (Mechanical). Before starting at Harvard, he worked at the Payments and Governance Research Program at J-PAL, and at DIME and ID4D at the World Bank in Washington, DC.