Utteeyo Dasgupta is an Associate Professor of Economics at Fordham University. He is broadly interested in the positive, normative, and strategic aspects of decision-making. His research has looked into issues of discrimination, worker choices in the labor market, issues of corruption, decisions under uncertainty, the role of gender and institutions in shaping preferences, and other topics in Behavioral Economics. 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 affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) as a Research Fellow, and with the Global Labor Organization (GLO) as a Fellow. He serves as an Associate Editor for Economic Inquiry and  Studies in Microeconomics, and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Behavioral Public Administration (JBPA). He also served as a Guest Editor for the special issue of Studies in Microeconomics on Behavioral and Experimental Economics: Theories and Applications (volume 7, issue 1, June 2019). He is currently co-editing The Handbook of Experimental Development Economics (Edward Elgar; expected 2024) 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.