Anant Nyshadham is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Business Economics and Public Policy Area of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, a Research Associate of the NBER, an Affiliate of BREAD, a Research Affiliate of the IGC, a J-PAL-affiliated professor, and an affiliate of the Montreal Partnership for Human Resource Management (MPHRM). He received his PhD in 2012 from Yale University.
He is also the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of the Good Business Lab, a non-profit seeking to promote investment in worker welfare as a business imperative. His recent work focuses on enterprise, firm, and worker characteristics and decision-making (e.g., labor contracting, worker training, managerial quality) and the resulting performance dynamics, particularly in developing countries. On these topics, he has both on-going and recently completed field experiments in Mexico, Kenya, Tanzania, and India.
