Tista Mukherjee

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal  (IISERB) since July 2024.  Before joining IISERB,  I was a  Stephan Klasen postdoctoral fellow (2023-24) at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany. I completed my Ph.D. (Dissertation Title: "Essays on Norms, Institutions, and Social Change") in May 2023 in Economics from the University of Calcutta, India. 

My research explores the institutional barriers to women's empowerment and the role of public policies in addressing gender inequality in developing countries. My research combines applied microeconomic theory with robust methods of causal inference based on large, micro datasets in India.  

Another strand of my research explores the intrahousehold response to crimes. 

Research Interests:                   

• Development Economics      

• Economics of Institutions

• Economics of Crime 

• Family Economics 

Teaching Interests: 

•  Microeconomics

• Gender Economics 

• Development Economics

• Econometrics 

• Economics of Institutions