Economics and Public Policy

Ishita Tripathi has earned her PhD from Louisiana State University, USA in 2019. She has obtained MS in Quantitative Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in 2012 and BSc (Economics Hons.) from the St. Xavier's College, Kolkata in 2009. From 2012 to 2014, she worked as a Research Associate in the Srini Raju Centre for IT and the Networked Economy (SRITNE) and Centre for Economics and Public Policy at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Her research interests lie in topics from applied microeconomics, specifically in cultural economics, political economics, crime, law and economics. She focuses in understanding how various socio-economic factors can shape an individual’s perception. In her PhD thesis, she studied how exposure to violent environment can influence one’s beliefs and preferences.

Working Paper:

• Can terrorism increase anti-immigrant attitude? (Job Market Paper)
• Impact of terrorism on trust in institutions

• Effect of legalising same-sex marriage on hate crime towards LGBTQ group

• Microeconomics
• Data Analytics - STATA

• Assistant Professor of Economics (July 2019 – Present)
  Ahmedabad University
  Responsibilities include teaching, research, and service in university committees.

• Teaching Assistant (August 2014 – May 2019)
  Department of Economics, LSU
  Responsibilities include instruction, grading and assistance in labs

• Research Associate (June 2012 – June 2014)
  Indian School of Business
  Positions held:Researcher at the Srini Raju Centre for IT and the Networked Economy, ISB
  Research assistant of Professor Tarun Jain, ISB
  Teaching assistant of Professor Tarun Jain, and Prof. Galit Shmueli, ISB