I am a development economist at Ashoka University, India. My research interests are in labour economics, the economics of health and education, and public policy, with a particular interest in gender gaps across these dimensions. One strand of my research focuses how people make decisions about human capital investments, and how gendered social norms influence their choices. Another strand of my research relates to the constraints on firms from hiring women, as well as the socioeconomic factors that constrain women’s labour supply. My work has been supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Innovations for Poverty Action, J-PAL, and Centre for Economic Policy Research, among others. I received a PhD in Economics, an MSc in Economics for Development and an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford, where I was a Rhodes Scholar. I also hold a BA in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

At present, I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Ashoka University in the Delhi NCR region. My office is AC-04-808 on the Ashoka University campus.

Before Ashoka, I taught undergraduate microeconomics and mathematics at Brasenose College, Oxford. Before that, as an Overseas Development Institute Fellow, I worked as an economist in South Africa's National Treasury on developing policies to preserve macro-prudential stability in the banking and financial system, in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis.

You can get in touch at anisha.sharma@ashoka.edu.in.