Vikrant V. Kamble

vvkamble@udel.edu · CV

Research · Teaching · Education · Resources

Welcome!
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Child Health and Development Institute (CHDI). I work on mental and behavioral health to improve the well-being of children and youth.
I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Delaware in August 2026. My research uses causal inference methods to study population health, mental health, and labor markets, focusing on how policies affect communities.

Research interests: Applied Microeconomics: Health, Mental and Behavioral Health, Labor, Development, and Public Policy

Job Market Paper · Committee: Barton J. Willage (Chair), Maria Rosales-Rueda, Olga Gorbachev, Desmond J. Toohey

Scholar · LinkedIn

Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• “Fueling or Failing? The Educational Consequences of Oil Price Declines”
  with Usman Taj · Eastern Economic Journal, 2026, pp. 1–36
• “Ride-sharing and Crime: Evidence from U.S. Cities”
  with Usman Taj · Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Volume 34, 2025, 101707
• “Noncustodial Parents, Instrumental Networks, and Child Support Compliance”
  with Quentin H. Riser, Daniel R. Meyer, and Lawrence M. Berger · Social Science Research, Volume 110, February 2023, 102850

Software

• “OKPRESERVE: Stata module to implement nested preserve and restore for data workflows”
  ssc install okpreserve
  Statistical Software Components S459799, Boston College Department of Economics, 2026

Working Papers

• “The 1973 Oil Embargo and Infant Health Outcomes” (JMP)
• “Mental Health Costs of the Oil Bust: Evidence from Oil Price Decline” (Under Review)
  with Usman Taj
• “Pregnancy Accommodation Laws and Women's Mental Health” (Draft is ready)
  with Usman Taj
• “Intertemporal Elasticity of Labor Supply: Evidence from New York City Taxicab Drivers Using a New Instrument” (GLO Discussion Paper, No. 1809, 2026)
  with Swapnil Motghare
• “Medicaid Expansion and Crime: Evidence from US Cities” (Resting)
  with Usman Taj · SSRN Working Paper, 2025
• “Unveiling Caste Disparities in Under-Five Mortality in India Using Bayesian Model Averaging and Time Trend Analysis: A Repeated Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study from 1987 to 2021”
  with Smita Pakhale et al. · SSRN Working Paper, 2023

Work-in-Progress

• “Lost Futures: Local Economic Collapse and Suicide in Young Adulthood”
• “Impact of Forced Immigration on Borrowing Constraints”
  with Usman Taj and Derrick Liang
• “Marching Through Time: The Enduring Effects of Military Settlements”
  with Sarah Shaukat and Attique Ur Rehman
• “Causal Effects of CTE Pathways and Career Clusters on Secondary and Postsecondary Outcomes”
  with Kenneth Shores and Jesse Eze

Teaching

Instructor of Record

• ECON 101: Introduction to Microeconomics (Winter 2025, Fall 2025 (86 students) · Course evaluations)

Graduate Courses

• ECON 824: Econometrics of Cross-Section & Panel Data (Fall 2023, Fall 2024 · Dr. Battaglia)
• ECON 814: Macroeconomic Theory II† (Spring 2023 · Dr. Holter)
• ECON 813: Microeconomic Theory II† (Spring 2026 · Dr. Eisenberg)

Undergraduate Courses

• ECON 436: Seminar in Public Economics (Spring 2026 · Dr. Tobacman)
• ECON 422: Econometric Methods & Models (Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024 · Dr. Battaglia)
• ECON 422: Econometric Methods & Models (Spring 2024, Spring 2025 · Dr. Gorbachev)
• ECON 370: Economics of Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2026 · Dr. Tobacman)
• ECON 304: Quantitative Macroeconomic Theory (Spring 2023 · Dr. Holter)
• ECON 301: Intermediate Micro with Calculus (Fall 2021 · Dr. Toohey)

† Held weekly recitations.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Delaware (Economics), August 2026
• M.S., University of Wisconsin–Madison (Economics), May 2021
• B.Tech., Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University (Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering), May 2017

Resources for Students

Stata Resources

• University of Wisconsin – Madison – Comprehensive Stata tutorials and resources for beginners and advanced users.
• Princeton University – Stata guide for economic analysis and econometrics applications.
• Stata to Python Equivalents – Coding in Python is a little different than coding in Stata.
• Top 25 Stata Visualizations – With Full Stata Code (by Fahad Mirza)

LaTeX Resources

• Overleaf Templates – Collection of LaTeX templates for academic papers, theses, and presentations.

Additional Resources

• DiD Resources: Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna – A Comprehensive Course on DiD
• Diff-in-Diff course: Clement De Chaisemartin – Video course on difference-in-differences methodology.
• Staggered DiD software packages: Asjad Naqvi – Software packages for staggered difference-in-differences analysis.
• Resources: Jennifer Doleac – Curated economics resources and research materials.
• Resources: Sebastian Tello Trillo – Economics resources – Almost all.
• Coding resources: Moshi Alam – Programming and coding resources for undergraduate students.

Last updated: