Economics and Public Policy

Sugat Chaturvedi holds a PhD in Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. Prior to joining Ahmedabad University, he worked as a Research Fellow in Economics of Innovation and the Future of Work in the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex and served as a Visiting Faculty in the Department of Economics at Ashoka University.

His research interests are at the intersection of labour economics, political economy, and innovation—focusing on topical social and economic issues such as women's labour force participation in South Asia, the impact of emerging technologies on the future of work, and the relationship between political representation of minorities and their economic outcomes. In line with this, he leverages computational linguistics tools to investigate the use of gendered attributes in online job ads, identify emerging digital automation technologies from patents and publications, and infer group identity using personal names.

• “When Do Gender Quotas Change Policy? Evidence from Household Toilet Provision in India” (with Sabyasachi Das and Kanika Mahajan), Forthcoming, Economic Development and Cultural Change
• “Bridging or Breaking: Impact of Intergroup Interactions on Religious Polarization” (with Rochana Chaturvedi and Elena Zheleva), Forthcoming, WWW '24: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024
• “Using Domain-Specific Word Embeddings to Examine the Demand for Skills” (with Kanika Mahajan and Zahra Siddique), Forthcoming, Research in Labor Economics (Volume 52: Big Data in Labor Market Research)
• Chaturvedi, Rochana, and Sugat Chaturvedi. “It’s All in the Name: A Character-Based Approach to Infer Religion.” Political Analysis 32, no. 1 (2024): 34-49. doi:10.1017/pan.2023.6.

• “Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior” (with Kanika Mahajan and Zahra Siddique)
• “Group Size and Political Representation under Alternate Electoral Systems” (with Sabyasachi Das)
• “The Employment Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies” (with Ekaterina Prytkova, Fabien Petit, Deyu Li, and Tommaso Ciarli)

• “What's the Future of Automation? Using Semantic Analysis to Identify Emerging Technologies” (with Tommaso Ciarli, Önder Nomaler, and Ekaterina Prytkova)
• “The Evolving Nature of Work: Improving Occupation Mapping with Large Language Models” (with Tanish Bafna, Kanika Mahajan, and Shekhar Tomar)
• “The Multidimensional Nature of Women’s Power: Measurement and Prediction” (with Rossella Calvi and Jacob Penglase)
• “Shining Light on Vietnam: Long Term Effects of War on Regional Development”