Economist ยท United Kingdom ยท Open to Opportunities

Turning complex data
into economic clarity.

I'm Radhika โ€“ an MSc Economics & Data Science candidate at Warwick, combining econometric rigour with modern machine learning to help teams act on evidence, not intuition.

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Gold
Medalist, BA Economics

A graduate economist who ships answers, not just analysis.

Level 7 economist trained in econometrics and machine learning, with a track record of turning 730K+ record panels and unstructured text into causal insight. I've built a CNN that outperformed traditional models by 46%, replicated a landmark macro paper at scale. Gold Medalist and recipient of the BPA award for excellence in economic research.

Education MSc Economics & Data Science, Warwick (2025โ€“26)
Previously BA Economics โ€“ Gold Medal, Ranked 1st
Focus Econometrics ยท Causal Inference ยท Applied ML
Based United Kingdom

A full-stack economist's toolkit.

From identification strategy to deployment โ€“ built for rigour, optimised for clarity.

โš™ Core
  • Econometrics
  • Economic Modeling
  • Forecasting
  • Policy Evaluation
  • Causal Inference
  • Quantitative Research
โš™ Tools & Tech
  • Python
  • R
  • SQL
  • Stata
  • Advanced Excel
  • PanelOLS
  • Pandas / NumPy
  • Power BI
โš™ Strengths
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Executive Reporting
  • Problem Solving
  • Research Design
  • Data Storytelling

Seven case studies. One throughline: evidence into action.

Each project is structured the way I think โ€“ problem, method, insight, impact.

01 / 07
Macro Econometrics

Policy Uncertainty & Corporate Investment

Python PanelOLS Stata Pandas

Policymakers needed rigorous evidence on whether economic policy uncertainty causally suppresses firm-level investment across the US economy.

Processed a 1.75 GB institutional panel of 730K+ financial records and replicated Baker, Bloom & Davis (2016) using high-dimensional fixed-effects regressions, benchmarked against Stata estimators for validation.

A one-standard-deviation rise in policy uncertainty is associated with a statistically significant decline in capital expenditure, with effects strongest in policy-sensitive sectors.

Delivered causal estimates robust enough to support macroeconomic policy evaluation, replicating a landmark result on a 730K+ record panel.

Fixed-effects regression tables, coefficient plots, and sector-level investment response curves.

02 / 07
Deep Learning ยท Geospatial

Satellite-Driven Economic Intelligence

Python TensorFlow CNN Geospatial APIs

Traditional GDP and activity proxies lag by months in much of Europe, leaving policymakers blind to real-time regional shifts.

Engineered a convolutional neural network to classify land use across 34 European countries from satellite imagery, generating a near-real-time proxy for regional economic activity.

Industrial and Residential zones were detected at 90%+ precision, surfacing manufacturing clusters and population density that conventional surveys miss between cycles.

Outperformed traditional statistical models by 46% (Rยฒ 0.80 vs 0.34) and achieved 78% accuracy across 10 land-use categories.

Country-level land-use heatmaps and a model performance dashboard comparing CNN vs. baseline.

03 / 07
Corporate Finance ยท Panel Data

ESG-R&D & the Cost of Capital

R Stata Propensity Score Matching Entropy Balancing

Do ESG-focused R&D investments actually lower the cost of capital for innovation-heavy firms โ€“ or is it greenwashing?

Built a 16-year cross-sectional panel (2010โ€“2025) of Japanese technology firms and applied two-way fixed effects with PSM and entropy balancing to address selection bias across 818 equity and 351 debt observations.

ESG-R&D reduces cost of equity with a 2-year lag (ฮฒ = โˆ’0.122), with social-pillar R&D driving the strongest effect; relationship banking insulates debt costs (ฮฒ โ‰ˆ 0).

Produced one of the first lag-structured causal estimates linking ESG-R&D to equity financing costs in Japanese tech.

Lag-response plots, heterogeneity tables by ESG pillar, and a matched-sample diagnostics dashboard.

04 / 07
Market Structure ยท Financial Econometrics

Big Tech Market Concentration: Quarterly Panel Analysis

Python Pandas Compustat Matplotlib Seaborn

Analysing how technology sector dominance has reshaped U.S. market structure and capital allocation over the past decade.

Processed and analysed 500K+ firm-level observations from the Compustat quarterly dataset, engineering key financial indicators to support market and economic analysis. Conducted longitudinal analysis of firm performance between 2012โ€“2024, identifying shifts in market structure and concentration through statistical and distributional analysis.

The 'Magnificent 7' technology firms accounted for 14.7% of total U.S. stock market capitalisation. Twelve years of technology sector data revealed significant growth and volatility trends that conventional sector averages obscure.

Quantified market concentration with publication-ready visualisations on a 500K+ observation panel spanning 12 years.

Publication-ready visualisations, concentration metrics, and a longitudinal market structure dashboard.

05 / 07
Demographics ยท Data Engineering

Demographic Segmentation Analysis: UK Census Microdata

Python Pandas Seaborn Matplotlib

UK Census microdata is voluminous and messy, making it difficult to quickly extract policy-relevant demographic and regional insights.

Engineered an automated Python pipeline to clean and structure 36MB+ of UK Census microdata, producing analysis-ready datasets for demographic research. Optimised data processing workflows to efficiently analyse hundreds of thousands of demographic records.

30.4% of the recorded population resided in London and the South East. Regional distribution and country-of-birth patterns reveal significant demographic disparities with direct implications for regional policy.

Developed 2+ data visualisations to communicate demographic trends and regional disparities, turning raw microdata into actionable policy insights.

Clean structured datasets, demographic trend visualisations, and regional distribution reports.

06 / 07
NLP ยท Labour Economics

Occupational NLP & Skills Mapping

Python scikit-learn NLTK TF-IDF

Workforce planners lacked a scalable way to see how skills overlap across industries that look unrelated on paper.

Built an NLP pipeline over 10K+ US Labor Department job descriptions to automatically classify roles and surface latent skill overlaps across sectors.

Uncovered non-obvious skill overlaps โ€“ e.g. Legal and Construction share contractual reasoning and compliance vocabulary โ€“ with direct implications for retraining pathways.

Achieved 90% classification accuracy and ROC-AUC of 0.94, producing a reusable framework for labour-policy and workforce planning.

Skill-overlap network graph and an interactive role-classification matrix.

07 / 07
Web Scraping ยท Pricing Analytics

E-Commerce Price Intelligence Pipeline

Python BeautifulSoup Requests Pandas

Pricing teams needed a repeatable way to monitor a fragmented product catalogue distributed across dozens of paginated pages.

Built an end-to-end scraper covering 755 SKUs across 48 paginated pages, parsing HTML with CSS selectors and automating multi-page crawling via a dynamic loop.

Price distributions were heavily right-skewed, with a small tail of premium SKUs driving a disproportionate share of catalogue value.

Cleaned raw HTML into a structured 755-row dataset and shipped a reusable pipeline that turns a manual audit into a one-click refresh.

Price distribution histograms and a tidy product-level CSV ready for BI ingestion.

โ€“ Working Philosophy

I don't just study economies.
I help translate evidence into
answers people can act on.

Let's connect.

Open to graduate economist roles, research positions, and applied data science work across the UK.