Pushkar Maitra is Professor of Economics at Monash University, Australia. His primary areas of research are Development Economics, Applied Econometrics, Experimental Economics and Political Economy. His current research interests include health and human capital accumulation in developing countries, agricultural credit and microfinance, political economy, gender and affirmative action. He uses both survey and experimental data in his research. He has published extensively in refereed international journals, including Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Development Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economic Development and Cultural Change and Journal of Population Economics. He has been the chief investigator in successful grant applications from USAID, AUSAID under the ADRA program, International Growth Centre (IGC), Australian Research Council (ARC), Hong Kong Research Council, the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.