Publications

Agranov, M., Dasgupta, U., & Schotter, A. (Forthcoming). Trust Me: Communication and Competition in a Psychological Game. Journal of the European Economic Association. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvae012

Dasgupta, U., Radoniqi, F. (2023). Republic of Beliefs: An Experimental Investigation. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 214, 30-43. 

Dasgupta, U., Mani, S., Sharma, S. & Singhal S. (2023). Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India. The Journal of Development Studies,  59(4), 472-489.

Dasgupta, U., Mani, S., Sharma, S., & Singhal, S. (2022). Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 104(3), 587-601. 

Dasgupta, U., Jha, C.K., & Sarangi, S. (2021). Persistent patterns of behavior: Two epidemics 350 years apart. Economic Inquiry. 59(2), 848-857.

Dasgupta, U., Jha, C.K., & Sarangi, S. (2020). Procedural Rationality in the Time of COVID-19: Commentary. Economic and Political Weekly. 55(25), 13-16.

Dasgupta, U., Mani, S., & Singh, P. (2020). Searching for Religious Discrimination among Childcare Workers. Review of Development Economics, 24(2), 362-382.

Dasgupta, U., Mani, S., Sharma, S., & Singhal, S.(2019) Internal and External Validity: Comparing Two Simple Risk Elicitation Tasks. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 81, 31-46.

Dasgupta, U., Mani, S., Sharma, S., & Singhal, S. (2019) Can Gender Differences in Distributional Preferences Explain Gender Gaps in Competition? Journal of Economic Psychology. 70, 1-11.

Dasgupta, U., Gangadharan, L.,  Maitra, P., & Mani, S.(2017).Searching for Preference Stability in a State Dependent World. Journal of Economic Psychology. 62, 17-32.

Dasgupta, U. (2016). Shooting in the Dark: Do Prices Matter in Ambiguous Environments? Studies in Microeconomics. 4(1), 1-12.

Dasgupta, U., Gangadharan, L., Maitra, P., Mani, S., & Subramanian, S. (2015). Choosing to be Trained: Evidence from a Field Experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 110, 145-159. 

Dasgupta, U. & Mani, S. (2015). Only Mine or All Ours: Do Stronger Entitlements Affect Altruistic Choices in the Household. World Development. 67, 363-375.

Abbink, K., Dasgupta, U., Gangadharan, U., & Jain, T. (2014). Letting the briber go free: An experiment on mitigating harassment bribes.  Journal of Public Economics. 111, 17-28. 

Dasgupta, U., &  Orman, W.H. (2014).  Does Heterogeneity Help in Overcoming the Public Goods Dilemma in a Sequential Contribution Environment? Group Decision and Negotiation, 23(5), 1219-1239.

Dasgupta, U. & Mani, S. (2013). An Interactive Introduction to Randomized Evaluation. Perspectives on Economic Education Research. 8(1).

Dasgupta, U. & Mani, S. (2013) Altruism in the Household: A pilot study.  Economic and Political Weekly.48(33), 17-19.

Cox, J.C., Sadiraj, V., Vogt, B., & Dasgupta, U. (2013).  Is There A Plausible Theory for Decision under Risk? A Dual Calibration Critique. Economic Theory. 54(2), 305-333.

Dasgupta, U. (2011).  Are Entry Threats Always Credible? The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. (Contributions). 11(1), 1-41.

Dasgupta, U & Menon, A. (2011). Trust and Trustworthiness among Economics Majors. Economics Bulletin. 31(4), 2799-2815. 

Dasgupta, U. (2011). Do procedures matter in fairness allocations? Experimental evidence in mixed gender pairings.  Economics Bulletin. 31(1), 820-829.

Dasgupta, U. (2010). Nudging Students Forward Towards Backward Induction. Journal of Industrial Organization Education. 5(1), 1-6.

Dasgupta, U. (2009). Potential Competition in the Presence of Sunk Entry Costs: An Experiment. New Zealand Economic Papers, Special Issue: Laboratory experiments in economics, finance and political science. 43(2), 203 - 225.

Dasgupta, U., & Mitra, P. (Forthcoming).  Entry on Behavioural Development Economics. In S. Chuah, R. Hoffmann & A. Neelim (Eds.), Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics.

Dasgupta, U., Gangadharan, L., & Souther, A. (Forthcoming). Lab-in-the-Field Methods in Development Economics: A Review of Current Practices. In U. Dasgupta & P. Maitra (Eds.), Handbook of Experimental Development Economics. Edward Elgar. 

Dasgupta, U., Jakiela, P., Maitra, P., Ozier, O., Serra, D., & Viceisza, A. (Forthcoming). Experimental Development Economics: Current Scope and Future Directions. In U. Dasgupta & P. Maitra (Eds.), Handbook of Experimental Development Economics. Edward Elgar.

Dasgupta, U. (2023). Looking Beyond Misbehaving? [Review of the book Principles of Behavioral Economics, by P. E. Earl]. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 104, 10200.

Banerjee, R., Dasgupta, U., & Mitra, S. (2023). Stopping the Rot I: A Review of Models and Experimental Methods of Corruption Experiments. In Jha, C.K., Mishra, A., & Sarangi, S. (Eds.). The Political Economy of Corruption (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003142300.

Banerjee, R., Dasgupta, U., & Mitra, S. (2023). Stopping the Rot II: Consequences, Causes and Policy Lessons from the Recent Experiments on Corruption. In Jha, C.K., Mishra, A., & Sarangi, S. (Eds.). The Political Economy of Corruption (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003142300.

Dasgupta, U. (2021). Indeed “We Are All Behavioral Economists Now!” [Review of the book Behavioural Economics and Experiments, by A. Chaudhuri]. Journal of Economic Psychology. 87, 102449.  

Dasgupta, U. & Jha, C.K. (2021). Finding Economics in Small Things. [Review of the book The Economics of Small Things, by S. Sarangi]. Economic & Political Weekly. 56(41).

Dasgupta, U. (2017). [Review of the book The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis, by S. Dhami]. Studies in Microeconomics. 5(2), 182-185.

Dasgupta, U. (2017). Vocational Selection. In Virgil Zeigler-Hill and Todd Shackelford, (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_802-1, Springer.

Dasgupta, U.(2010)  [Review of the book A guide to behavioral economics by H. Swartz]. Journal of Economics Issues, 44(4), 1114-1115.

Dasgupta, U. (2007) Contestability and the significance of the entrant's home market: Dissertation abstract. Experimental Economics, 10(2), 193-194.

Dasgupta, U. (2007). When Firms Contest. in Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, #590, 233-238,Springer.

Dasgupta, U. (2004). Minding Your Own Business. In Proceedings of Experiments in Economic Sciences - New Approaches to Solving Real-world Problems. 500-520.

Dasgupta, U. & Maitra, P. (Eds.) Handbook of Experimental Development Economics. Edward Elgar. (Forthcoming).