Ashutosh Thakur

Ph.D., Stanford Graduate School of Business

MISCELLANEOUS

An honor to receive the 2022 Teaching Excellence Award from Dean Danny Quah (Nov 30, 2022)

2022 Teaching Excellence Award

Ronald H. Coase Best Dissertation Award
Society of Institutional and Organizational Economics
For best dissertation in calendar years 2020 and 2021
Awarded at 26th SIOE Conference (Toronto, July 26th, 2022)

https://www.sioe.org/news/2022-ronald-coase-best-dissertation-award-ashutosh-thakur
(Dissertation link: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13758848)

"Chat with Prof Ashu: Chess, tabla, and game theory"
Lee Kuan Yew School, National University of Singapore Interview (Jan 3, 2022)
https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/news-events/news/details/chat-with-prof-ashu-chess-tabla-and-game-theory?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=organic_post&utm_campaign=prof_ashu

Best Paper Presentation Award at the 5th International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences: Match-Up 2019

For "Matching Problem of Civil Service"

(Congressi Stefano Franscini at Ascona, Switzerland, May 26-29, 2019)

http://www.csf.ethz.ch/picture-gallery/csf-award-gallery/2019.html

2018 McKinnon Fellowship Recipient
Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development, now called Stanford King Center on Global Development https://kingcenter.stanford.edu/people/ashutosh-thakur)

https://globalpoverty.stanford.edu/people/ashutosh-thakur

Stanford GSB interview about my research
Interview t
aken by Mr. Martin J. Smith, for the Stanford Graduate School of Business website/magazine, June 3, 2019.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/programs/phd/student-life/voices/ashutosh-thakur?fbclid=IwAR3jeHV85Rafa13z0Cz1rLb_VklbEsVR_vLzXwDslfafp81X_QLEXIEbBKc

Some other coverage of my job market paper (Matching Problem of Civil Service) and research:

  • Daniel Rogger's World Bank blog post on "What's the latest research on quality of governance?":

http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/node/1671


  • An honor to receive a shout-out on Alvin Roth's market design blog post:

http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2019/03/matching-civil-servants-to-positions.html

http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2019/06/stanford-gsb-interviews-ashutosh-thakur.html

http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2023/01/affirmative-action-in-india-market.html