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Smriti Sharma is Assistant Professor of Economics at Newcastle University Business School. Her research specialisation is in development economics, labour economics, and behavioural economics. Within these fields, her works spans the following three areas – (i) education, skills, and labour markets, (ii) political economy of development, and (iii) caste and gender-based disadvantage and discrimination. She works with both secondary data and primary data collected using surveys and experiments. She obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the Delhi School of Economics.