Shubham Upreti

Lancaster, PA (Onsite)

• Co-authoring a labor and political-economy paper (targeting World Development) that empirically tests an "accumulation–need frontier" theory of bonded labor in South Asia
• Designing the identification strategy — difference-in-differences and causal-inference methods — on Nepal's Haliya and Kamaiya bonded-labor communities from 2000 onward
• Building SQL and Excel datasets from ILO, national statistics office, and base-report sources

Lancaster, PA (Onsite)

• Supporting a paper on Marxian and Kaleckian profit frameworks for the U.S. economy, being revised for the Cambridge Journal of Economics
• Independently built an R Shiny dashboard visualizing 52 years (1973–2025) of quarterly U.S. macro data — GDP components and capital/profit-share series — so readers can explore the paper's evidence interactively
• Conducted the supporting literature review and SQL-backed data engineering

Lancaster, PA (Onsite)

• Independent study on Pennsylvania oil & gas drilling (2000–2023), examining how well-setback distance correlates with lung-disease prevalence
• Compiled setback-regulation data across 1,200+ PA municipalities and published an interactive visualization, "PA-Well-Watch," to GitHub Pages
• Used R (ggplot2, vectorized workflows) for geospatial analysis of two decades of drilling expansion

Harrisburg, PA (Onsite)

• Facilitated finalization of a $3.8M Industry Partnership grant, coordinating strategic reviews with PA County Workforce Directors
• Built R regression models on labor-retention and vocational-training data, translating results into recommendations for executive quarterly briefings
• Shadowed the PA Department of Labor & Industry's policy and data-analysis units on how state guidance reaches local labor markets

Madrid, Spain (Remote)

• Conducted macroeconomic research on data infrastructure across ~$17B emerging garment and electronics markets to inform expansion strategy
• Synthesized international data regulations (EU Digital Product Passport, China's data law) to assess feasibility and support budget pitches
• Produced market-feasibility and partnership briefings for Bangladesh, India, China, and Turkey

Kathmandu, Nepal (Hybrid)

• Mentored 10 high-school researchers through a six-week, output-oriented economics and policy project
• Led firsthand field data collection — interviewing producers, retailers, and consumers — on bottled-water quality and Nepal's mineral-water market
• Co-produced a white policy paper on export expansion and the diplomatic barriers facing Nepalese mineral water

Kathmandu, Nepal (Onsite)

• Published peer-reviewed SVAR research in the Economic Review of Nepal on how policy-rate and reserve-ratio changes transmit to inflation and credit growth across 13 years of data
• Delivered weekly econometric briefings to executive leadership and drafted a working paper on Nepal's Base Rate system versus other Asian economies
• Co-authored the study with Assistant Director Aditya Pokhrel using Stata and SPSS; findings informed Nepal's 2024 Monetary Policy deliberations

Massachusetts, USA (Remote)

• Researched the relationship between global oil-price shocks and Nepal's foreign-exchange reserves, applying VAR modeling to macroeconomic time series
• Collected and validated multi-year datasets from central-bank and international sources; built and validated the models in R
• Co-authored a resulting SSRN working paper with a University of Pittsburgh PhD candidate