Economics and Public Policy
Priyoma Mustafi
Assistant Professor
PhD (University of Pittsburgh)
+91.79.61911000
priyoma.mustafi@ahduni.edu.in
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Research Interests: Behavioral Economics, Development Economics, Labor Economics, Experimental Economics
Profile
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.
Research
Publications
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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)
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Introduction to Macroeconomics (Monsoon 2025)