Amit Thorat is an Assistant Professor of Economics, at the Center for the Study of Regional Development at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior to this, he worked as an Associate Fellow at the National Council for Applied Economics Research (NCAER), New Delhi, where he was part of the India Human Development Survey team. He has also worked with ICAR-National Institute, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the South Asia headquarters in New Delhi, and the Economic Research Foundation, in New Delhi.

He received his doctorate in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU. His research has been on issues of poverty, income, educational, and health inequalities in general and across social, ethnic, and religious communities in particular, in the context of India. Currently, he is working on understanding people’s beliefs around personal and social identity in India and its implications for social behavior, individual distress, and economic outcomes. His earlier work includes examining gains for small and marginal farmers from high-value production as well as from farmer-owned-cooperative farming.