Assistant Professor in Economics
- PhD, Economics, University of California, Riverside
- MA, Economics, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India
- BA, Economics, The Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, India
Biography
Dr. Muralidharan earned her PhD in Economics from University of California, Riverside. She is currently researching efficiency and sustainability of the world’s natural resources with special interest in water shortages, pollution, and how they relate to agriculture and groundwater issues. Dr. Muralidharan is also studying the impact of sustainable forest products in developing countries in an effort to observe access limitations within a poverty environment. Before joining Michigan Tech, she taught at University of California, Riverside, and at Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Muralidharan has published her research in Water Resources.
Teaching Interests
- Natural resource economics
- Environmental economics
- Water resource economics
- Microeconomics
- Econometrics
Research Interests
- Water management and drainage in agriculture
- Groundwater management
- Forest use in developing economies
- Groundwater quality externalities