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Utteeyo Dasgupta is an Associate Professor of Economics at Wagner College. His research interests are in the positive, normative and strategic aspects of decision-making, and he primarily uses economic experiments and game theory for his research. His research has been published in The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, among other peer-reviewed journals. Utteeyo received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Arizona. He is a Research Fellow at IZA, and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Policy Studies, Fordham University. He serves as an Associate Editor for Studies in Microeconomics and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Behavioral Public Administration (JBPA).
Posts by Utteeyo Dasgupta
व्यवहार एवं व्यक्तित्व लक्षणों में जातिगत अंतर: विश्वविद्यालय के छात्रों का एक अध्ययन
यद्यपि कई अध्ययनों में जातियों में स्वास्थ्य और शैक्षिक परिणामों में अंतर की जांच की गई है, लेकिन व्यावहारिक प्राथमिकताओं और व्यक्तित्व लक्षणों में जातिगत अंतर पर बहुत कम साक्ष्य उपलब्ध हैं। दिल्ली ...
- Utteeyo Dasgupta Subha Mani Smriti Sharma Saurabh Singhal
- 05 फ़रवरी, 2021
- लेख
Caste gaps in behaviour and personality traits: A study of university students
While numerous studies have examined gaps in health and educational outcomes across castes, there is little evidence on caste gaps in behavioural preferences and personality traits. Based on incentivi...
- Utteeyo Dasgupta Subha Mani Smriti Sharma Saurabh Singhal
- 04 December, 2020
- Articles
Designing incentives for mid-level officials in India's public sector
In the Indian public education system, block/cluster resource persons are mid-level officials who are responsible for monitoring the performance of teachers. In this note, Vivek et al. discuss their e...
- Pradyumna Bhattacharjee Utteeyo Dasgupta Subha Mani Kumar Vivek
- 18 November, 2020
- Notes from the Field
How do better-ranked colleges help meet India’s skill shortages? Evidence using a regression discontinuity design
This project exploits the variation in the University of Delhi college admission process to estimate the effects of exposure to high-achieving peers on cognitive attainment using scores on standardise...
- Utteeyo Dasgupta Subha Mani Smriti Mudgal Sharma Saurabh Singhal
- 31 March, 2018
- IGC Research on India
Peer influence and human capital accumulation: Evidence from Delhi University colleges
College is an important milestone in life that is believed to develop several aspects of an individual's human capital, broadly defined to include both cognitive and socio-emotional traits. Consequen...
- Utteeyo Dasgupta Subha Mani Smriti Sharma Saurabh Singhal
- 07 November, 2016
- Articles
Do wives care more about household welfare than husbands?
Social science literature shows that women promote household welfare more than men. This column examines if consumption choices of husbands and wives change, depending on whether they have to work to...
- Utteeyo Dasgupta Subha Mani
- 24 February, 2014
- Articles
Choosing to be trained: Behavioural restrictions on participation decisions
Widespread unemployment has prompted policymakers to consider introduction of various training programmes that can help workers accumulate additional skills to obtain new jobs and/ or retain current ...
- Utteeyo Dasgupta Lata Gangadharan Pushkar Maitra Subha Mani Samyukta Subramanian
- 02 September, 2013
- Articles