Rohini Somanathan (born 1965)[1] is an Indian economist focusing on political economy and development economics, and especially on public goods in India.
Her research has included work on the conflation of caste with disadvantage as a legacy of colonialism in India,[2] and the effects of high temperatures on worker productivity.
She went to Boston University in the US for doctoral study in economics, and received her Ph.D. in 1996.
[4] Her dissertation, School Systems, Educational Attainment, and Wages, was jointly supervised by Debraj Ray and Glenn Loury.
She returned to the Delhi School of Economics as a reader in 2005, and has been a professor there since 2008.