Media Links
Expert opinion: in Cooray, Jha and Sarangi's paper "Good governance in troubled times: What we know and what experts say". - Special issue of Economic Modelling: "Crises and Corruption: How Governance and Institutions Interact in Troubled Times". February 27, 2024. [link]
Fordham News: "How Does Employees’ Autonomy Affect Their Performance in the Workplace? " 12 December, 2023. Andrew Souther '21, discusses a joint project (Dasgupta, Mani & Souther, 2024).
Peter Coy's opinion column in NYT: "Should Giving a Bribe Be Legal", discusses Basu's original proposal and also our JPUBE paper. September 10, 2021. [link]
Policy brief, Voxdev: "Rank and peer effects in higher education: Evidence from India." 12 March, 2021.
Opinion, The Guardian: "History tells how people act in pandemics – selfishly, but also with surprising altruism." 20 Dec. 2020.
Policy brief in Ideas for India: "Caste gaps in behaviour and personality traits: A study of university students." 4 Dec, 2020.
Policy brief in Ideas for India: "Designing incentives for mid-level officials in India's public sector." 18 Nov, 2020.
Call for papers: Special Issue on Behavioral and Experimental Economics: Theories and Applications, Studies in Microeconomics (volume 7, issue 1, June 2019).
Essay in Wagner Magazine: "Careful thinking: how to avoid the pitfalls of human reasoning." Summer 2018.
Policy brief in Ideas for India: "Peer influence and human capital accumulation: Evidence from Delhi University colleges." 7 Nov 2017.
Media quote, The Guardian: "Why we can't have nice things: dockless bikes and the tragedy of the commons." 5 Nov., 2017.
Media article in Fordham News on my co-authored work: "In an Altruism Matchup, Study Shows Women Win." 29 Sep. 2015.
Professor Kaushik Basu discusses our research paper testing his proposal on asymmetric punishment mechanism in op-ed @IndianExpress on controlling corruption. July 14, 2017. [link]
A fun talk-show with Angela Marie Franco on entrepreneurial life. December 19, 2014. [link]
Policy brief in Ideas for India: "Do wives care more about household welfare than husbands?" 24 Feb 2014.
Policy brief in Ideas for India: "Choosing to be trained: Behavioural restrictions on participation decisions." 2 Sep 2013.
Policy brief in Ideas for India: "Should Bribe-givers be let off?" 28 March, 2013.
Professor Tarun Jain's interview on Rediff.com:"Government should encourage, not prosecute, whistle-blowers" April 19, 2013. [link]
Professor Jain's Opinion Piece in India Together, discussing our research on Asymmetric punishment: "Should bribe-givers be let off" 31 December, 2012. [link]
Professor Basu tweeted our paper! December 31, 2012.
Wagner news talks about the new interdisciplinary behavioral economics major [link]. 8 September, 2016.
Media article on the Behavioral Economics Laboratory I had set up at Franklin and Marshall in F&M Diplomat. 10 March, 2011.
A friendly introduction at Wagner College by The Wagnerians [link]. 26 September, 2014.
My R&P seminar at IIM Ahmedabad on Intrahousehold choices. [video lecture series]
Mention, Macrobusiness.com.au: "Australia’s gig economy hits brick wall with oBikes." [link]. 30 May, 2018.
Authored pages in "Pedagogy in Action: The SERC portal for educators"
An Interactive Introduction to Randomized Evaluation
Introduction of Backward Induction Technique Using a Classroom Experiment