Utteeyo Dasgupta is a Professor of Economics at Fordham University. He is broadly interested in the positive, normative, and strategic aspects of decision-making. He primarily uses experimental methods in his research.
Professor Dasgupta’s academic work has been published in The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, and other peer-reviewed journals.
He is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) and the Global Labor Organization (GLO). He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom (University of Arizona).
He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economic Inquiry, and Studies in Microeconomics. He recently co-edited the Handbook of Experimental Development Economics (Edward Elgar, 2025) jointly with Pushkar Maitra at Monash University.
Professor Dasgupta earned his PhD in economics from the University of Arizona, and his M.A. in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. His teaching interests are in Applied Microeconomic Theory, and in particular, Game Theory and Experimental/Behavioral Economics. He has previously taught at the University of Arizona, Franklin & Marshall College, and at Wagner College.