Work Experience
Senior Lecturer (with tenure), Monash University, Australia (2015 - present)
Visiting Academic, Paris School of Economics, July-December 2015
Lecturer, Monash University, Australia, 2009-2014
Research Associate, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany, 2006-2008
Education
PhD, Texas A&M University, USA, 2001-2006
Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1996-2000
Research Fields
Microeconomic Theory
Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Publications
Influencing a polarized and connected legislature. Conditionally Accepted at Games and Economic Behavior (with Ratul Das Chaudhury and C. Matthew Leister)
Competence in the eye of the electorate: Appearance, incumbency, and vote shares, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Forthcoming (with Thomas Bilson, and Russell Smyth, and Liang Choon Wang)
Public support in the United States for global equity in vaccine pricing, Scientific Reports, 2022, 12, 8960 (with Yee Chan, Gaurav Datt, Asad Islam, and Liang Choon Wang)
Awareness of ethical dilemmas enhances public support for the principle of saving more lives in the United States: A survey experiment based on ethical allocation of scarce ventilators, Social Science & Medicine, 2021, 282 (August), 114171 (with Simone Pandit, Toby Handfield, Chiu Ki So, and Liang Choon Wang)
Testing the single-peakedness of other-regarding preferences, European Economic Review, 67, 197-209, 2014 (with Maria Levati and Aaron Nicholas)
Premarital confinement of women: A signaling and matching approach, Journal of Development Economics, 105, 48-63, 2013 (with Kunal Sengupta)
Tournament outcomes and prosocial behavior, Journal of Economic Psychology, 39, 387-401, 2013 (with Michael Kidd and Aaron Nicholas)
A primer on mathematical modeling in economics, Journal of Economic Surveys, 26, 594-615, 2012 (with Aaron Nicholas and Chiu Ki So)
Context and interpretation in laboratory experiments: The case of reciprocity, Journal of Economic Psychology, 32, 846-856, 2011 (with Maria Levati and Topi Miettinen)
Generalized contest success functions, Economic Theory, 40, 139-149, 2009 (with Rajiv Sarin)
Working Papers
Efficient power disparities: The role of consent (with Aaron Nicholas)
Consent and information disclosure: An experiment (with Ratul Das Chaudhury and A. Nicholas)
Deterring quid pro quo sexual harassment: A consequentialist, non-welfarist, and relatively intolerant approach (with Ratul Das Chaudhury, Toby Handfiled, and Liang Choon Wang)
Effects of mandatory ethics training (with Lisa Yee Chan and Liang Choon Wang)
A model of topic-centered communication networks (with Vai-Lam Mui and Chiu Ki So)
Intuitive appeal of preference assumptions (with Aaron Nicholas, Christopher Teh, and Liang Choon Wang)
Teaching Experience
Post graduate courses
Microeconomics, Monash University (2010-2018)
Mathematical Economics, Monash University (2010-2019)
Undergraduate courses
Big Ideas in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (2020)
Strategic Reasoning in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (2021-present)
Mathematical Economics, Monash University (2018 - present)
Managerial Economics, Monash University (2009)
Public Economics, Monash University (2009, 2010)
Principles of Economics, Monash University (2009)
Introductory Econometrics, Texas A&M University (2003, 2005)
Principles of Microeconomics, Texas A&M University (2004)
Lectures on Experimental Law and Economics, Monash University (2017, 2019)
Other Roles
Economics Coordinator, Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), Monash University (since 2019)
Department Coordinator, Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Business (since 2022)
Coordinator, Behavioral, Experimental and Theory Workshop, Department of Economics, Monash University (2010, 2011, 2014, 2018)
Economics Representative, Faculty Board, Faculty of Business and Economics (2011)
Co-organizer, Sixth Australia New Zealand Workshop in Experimental Economics, Monash University (2011)