Dinsha Mistree

About

Dinsha Mistree is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a research affiliate at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and a research affiliate at the Neukom Center for the Rule of Law at Stanford Law School, where he teaches courses on state building and global poverty.

Mistree works on issues related to the US-India relationship. Recent and forthcoming scholarship includes a book project on the performance of the Indian diaspora in the United States and a forthcoming study on the history of the US-India Civil Nuclear Agreement. He also studies governance and economic growth in developing countries, with a special focus on India. To this end, Mistree is working on a comparison of India's computer hardware and software industries as well as a project on the regulation of food adulteration across South Asia. Additionally, he has conducted one of the largest quantitative studies of management practices in Indian higher education as well as a series of education-focused experiments with Indian job seekers. These experiments include measuring the employment returns of learning English, how to effectively teach digital literacy, and how to minimize interpersonal conflict. Apart from his scholarly work, Mistree publishes in a range of policy outlets.

Mistree holds a PhD and MA in politics from Princeton University, along with an SM and SB from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and was a visiting scholar at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad.