Received Sylff Fellowship in 2013.
Tejaswi Velayudhan is a PhD Candidate at the Economics department at Michigan. Her fields are Public Finance and Development. She is currently working on issues relevant to taxation in developing countries – including value added taxes and tax evasion. Prior to starting her Ph.D., she worked as a research assistant at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC. Her work there centered on the economics of immigration and HIV/AIDS. Tejaswi’s research interests include labor, public finance, development and applied microeconomics. She received a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Wellesley College.
