Yashodhan Ghorpade is a Senior Economist in the Social Protection and Jobs global practice of the World Bank working in the East Asia and Pacific region. His research focuses on the microeconomic analysis of conflict, migration, household behavior under duress, social protection, and informality. Yashodhan completed a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Sussex, UK, and has previously worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Institute of Development Studies (IDS, UK), Oxford Policy Management Ltd., the ILO Child Labor Program, and World Bank country offices in New Delhi and Yangon. He has also been a visiting scholar at UNU-WIDER and IFPRI.