Palak Suri

Palak Suri serves as an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at West Virginia University, specializing in urban and labor economics with emphasis on public transit distributional impacts and gender employment dynamics.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Maryland, 2022

Her research investigates socioeconomic effects of urban infrastructure in developing contexts, particularly analyzing Mumbai's metro rail system for travel time savings, employment accessibility, land value appreciation, and air quality improvements. She concurrently examines transportation's role in women's labor market participation through empirical studies on gender-transport-employment linkages.

Recent publications (2021-2024) demonstrate methodological rigor through combined reduced-form and structural approaches, establishing connections between public transportation investments and multidimensional welfare outcomes including environmental health, gender equity, and household economic benefits across Indian urban settings.