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Anisha Sharma is an Associate Professor of Economics at Ashoka University. Her research interests are in the area of development economics, labour economics, firms, and public policy. Her recent research examines how strong social norms against female employment increase the costs of skills investments for women, contributing to economy-wide skill shortages as well a gender earnings gap. Anisha completed her doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford in 2016. In her dissertation, she used survey data to study different dimensions of resource misallocation in Indonesia - in investments in education over time, in the transition of workers across employment sectors, and in productivity increases across firms. Before that, she received an MSc in Financial Economics (2008), and an MSc in Economics for Development (2009) from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA (Hons) in Economics (2007) from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University.