Economics and Public Policy

Priyoma Mustafi earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2025. She completed her MSc in Economics from Shiv Nadar University and a BA (Hons) in Economics from Jadavpur University. Priyoma’s research interests lie in development economics and behavioral economics. For much of her work, she uses a combination of lab, field, and online experiments, as well as secondary data to address questions about gender, households, and incentives.

Publications

• Using social recognition to address the gender difference in volunteering for low-promotability tasks; forthcoming Management Science (joint with Ritwik Banerjee)

Working Papers

• Information Pooling in the Household: The Role of Expertise 
• Catholic Missionary Presence and Fertility in India (joint with Shampa Bhattacharjee and Roopal Jain)
• The Effect of Experimenter Demand on Inference (joint with David Danz, Marissa Lepper, Guillermo Lezama Perez Roman, Lise Vesterlund, Alistair Wilson , and K. Pun Winichakul) 

Selected Work in Progress

• Time Preferences and Dishonesty in the Public Sector (joint with Muhammad Yasir Khan)
• Happiness as a Status Symbol (joint with Anat Bracha and Lise Vesterlund) 
• Task Choice and Volunteer Retention (joint with Sera Linardi and Irene Lo) 

Undergraduate

• Introduction to Macroeconomics (Monsoon 2025)