Skip to main content

Main navigation

  • Topics
    • Themes

      • Firms
      • Cities
      • Energy
      • State
    • Current issues

      • Climate change
      • Gender equality
      • AI and data
    • Initiatives

      • Cities that Work
      • State Fragility initiative
      • Tax for Growth
      • SGB Evidence Fund
      • Agri-SME Evidence Fund
      • Climate and Growth Initiative
  • About
    • Impact
    • Governance
    • People
    • Annual report
    • Our funders
    • News
    • Careers
    • Contact us
    • Policies
  • Local ecosystems
    • Resident PhD fellowship
    • Mentorship programme
    • Local researcher impact
    • Visiting lecturers
    • Our partners
  • Where we work
    • Bangladesh
    • Ethiopia
    • Ghana
    • Jordan
    • Mozambique
    • Pakistan
    • Rwanda
    • Sierra Leone
    • Tanzania
    • Uganda
    • Yemen
    • Zambia
    • India
  • For researchers
    • Funding
    • Data sets
    • Researchers directory
    • Funded project documents
  • Publications
    • Growth briefs
    • Evidence and strategy papers
    • Publications glossary
  • Blog
  • Events
    • BREAD-IGC virtual PhD course
    • Firms, Trade, and Development Conference
    • LSE Environment Week
  1. / IGC
  2. / About
  3. / People

A Nilesh Fernando

  • Researcher
  • University of Notre Dame

Roles

Researchers

Nilesh Fernando is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Prof. Fernando is a development economist whose research agenda focuses on understanding frictions in labor markets and the agricultural sector in the developing world.

Projects

Image placeholder

Hiring frictions and growth among small firms: Evidence from an internet platform-based experiment

A Nilesh Fernando, Niharika Singh, Gabriel Tourek
Project

Hiring frictions and growth among small firms in India

A Nilesh Fernando, Niharika Singh, Gabriel Tourek 30 Jun 2021
Project

All contributions

Women working at a call center in Noida India

How online job portals can help smaller firms hire top talent

A Nilesh Fernando, Niharika Singh, Gabriel Tourek
Blog
cover page journal article

Hiring frictions and the promise of online job portals: Evidence from India

A Nilesh Fernando, Niharika Singh, Gabriel Tourek American Economic Review: Insights 5 4
Journal article
Fernando et al Working paper June 2022 cover

Hiring frictions and the promise of online job portals: Evidence from India

A Nilesh Fernando, Niharika Singh, Gabriel Tourek
Working paper
SGB Evidence Fund Series Hiring frictions policy brief cover

Hiring frictions and the promise of online job portals: Evidence from India

A Nilesh Fernando, Niharika Singh, Gabriel Tourek
Policy brief
Combined logos of PSDRN partners

PSDRN Seminar Series 2022-2023

9 December 2022 – 24 February 2023
Past Event

Share

Footer main

All Projects All Multimedia All In focus

Footer secondary

VoxDev ↗ Ideas for India ↗ Jobs of the World ↗

Stay up to date

Subscribe to our newsletter

and follow

International Growth Centre

London School of Economics and Political Science Sir Arthur Lewis Building (SAL), Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom

[email protected]

Funded by

UK Aid Logo
© IGC 2026 Design and development by Soapbox
  • Accessibility statement
  • Cookies
  • Privacy policy