Indian Economic Services Unit

Institute of Economic Growth, India

Vikram Dayal is a Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He has been using the R software in teaching quantitative economics to diverse audiences and is the author of three popular Springer publications titled 'An Introduction to R for Quantitative Economics: Graphing, Simulating and Computing', 'Quantitative Economics with R: A Data Science Approach', and 'Demystifying Causal Inference: Public Policy Applications with R'. He has published research on a range of environmental and developmental issues, from outdoor and indoor air pollution in Goa, India, to tigers and Prosopis juliflora in Ranthambore National Park. He studied economics in India and the USA and received his doctoral degree from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.