Economics and Public Policy

Professor Moumita Roy earned her PhD from the Interdisciplinary Center of Economic Science (ICES), Department of Economics, George Mason University in May 2021. She obtained MA in Economics from George Mason University in 2018, MSc in Economics (with a specialization in Applied Quantitative Finance) from Madras School of Economics in 2015 and BSc (Hons) in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata in 2013. She has worked as a Research Assistant in the Economics and Social Science Area of IIM Bangalore in 2015-2016.

Her research interests are in the fields of experimental and behavioral economics, and she studies topics related to development and labor economics. Her research mainly focuses on economic issues related to identity economics, conflict, and discrimination. Currently, her research explores the effect of social identity on leader effectiveness. 

She received a  Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics Grant from National Science Foundation (NSF), USA, in August 2021. She also received two Seed Grants from Ahmedabad University, India, in December 2021 and April 2022.

• Identity, Leadership and Cooperation: An experimental analysis (with Daniel Houser), Revise and Resubmit, European Economic Review
• Gender Bias Against Female Instructors (with Puneet Arora), Working Paper
• A literature review of diversity, inclusion and equity, Working Paper
• Peace Talks or Sanctions:  Effectiveness of conflict resolution mechanisms in contests with identity-dependent externalities  (with Jian Song and Daniel Houser), Work in Progress
• Effect of Leadership on Dishonesty in a Social Dilemma (with Daniel Houser), Work in Progress
• Choice Decisions under Limited Attention, Work in Progress

Clientelism and Identity (with James Habyarimana, Daniel Houser, Stuti Khemani, Victor Brech, Ginny Seung Choi) Economic and Political Studies (2020):1-21

Masters:

• Experimental and Behavioral Economics, 2022
• Econometrics, 2021

Undergraduate:

• Experimental and Behavioral Economics, 2022
• Econometrics, 2021, 2022
• Microeconomics, 2021-22,2022-23

 She believes embedding education in popular entertainment and communication platforms has a greater potential of engaging and informing non-experts. She has an instagram account, Filmynomics and more recently a blog, Filmynomics in which she uses analogies between reel behavior and real behavior to explain economic jargon in a simple and relatable manner.