Tanya Vaidya is a PhD Student at the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in the political economy of development. Prior to joining the PhD program, she worked as a Research Manager at Inclusion Economics India Centre (formerly known as EPoD India) where she worked on studies focused on gender, migration, and the labour market. She holds an MSc Economics from Shiv Nadar University and a BA (H) Economics from the University of Delhi.