Economics
Palak Suri
Assistant Professor
Expertise
Palak Suri is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at West Virginia University. She works on topics in urban and labor economics. Her ongoing work is related to the distributional impacts of public transit.
Suri graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland in 2022. Her dissertation examines the welfare benefits of the introduction of metro rail in Mumbai in terms of travel time savings to commuters, improved employment accessibility, land value appreciation and air quality. Her other projects engage with women's employment decisions in various contexts.
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/palaksuri