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 an interest in gender gaps across these dimensions. My work has been supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Innovations for Poverty Action, J-PAL, IZA, and Centre for Economic Policy Research, among others. 

I am presently Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Ashoka University in the Delhi NCR region. I am a co-lead of the Employment and Labour vertical of the Isaac Centre for Public Policy. I am also an invited researcher at J-PAL.

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.

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. My office is AC-04-808 on the Ashoka University campus.