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Deepti Goel

Email: deepti.goel@apu.edu.in

Deepti Goel is a faculty member at the School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India. She is also a research fellow at the IZA-Institute of Labor Economics, and at the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Her main areas of research are Applied Empirical Econometrics and Labor Economics. Some of her recent/ongoing work includes estimating labour supply, cohort analysis in labour markets, health effects of pollution, measuring teacher quality and perceptions of minority groups.

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Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Economics, Boston University, 2009
• M.A. in Economics, University of Delhi, 2000
• B.A. in Economics, University of Mumbai, 1998

Teaching

Econometrics, Labour Economics, Impact Evaluation

Areas of Interest

Applied Econometrics, Labour Economics

Research Interests

Discrimination, Education, Pollution, Migration, Inequality

Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals

• Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants (with Kevin Lang), ILR Review (2019) 72(2): 355-381
• The Impact of MGNREGA on Agricultural Outcomes and the Rural Labour Market: A Matched DID Approach (with JV Meenakshi and Deepak Varshney), The Indian Journal of Labour Economics (2018) 61(4): 589-621
• Bad Karma or Discrimination? Male-Female Wage Gaps among Salaried Workers in India (with Ashwini Deshpande and Shantanu Khanna), World Development (2018) 102: 331-344. Blog: Ideas for India
• The Effect of Metro Expansions on Air Pollution in Delhi (with Sonam Gupta) The World Bank Economic Review (2017) 31 (1): 271-294 . Blog: Ideas for India
• Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India: 2004-2012 (with Rene Morissette and Shantanu Khanna), IZA Journal of Labor & Development (2016) 5:18. Blog: Ideas for India
• Perceptions of Immigrants in Australia after 9/11 (2010), Economic Record 86: 596-608

Working Papers

• Drivers of Student Performance: Evidence from Higher Secondary Public Schools in Delhi (with Bidisha Barooah), IZA Discussion Papers (2018) DP No. 11670
• Identity, Perceptions and Institutions: Caste differences in Earnings from Self-Employment in India (with Ashwini Deshpande), IZA Discussion Papers (2016) DP No. 10198

Other Publications

• An Analysis of Earnings Inequality of Paid Workers in Rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12 (with Shantanu Khanna and Rene Morissette), NOPOOR Policy Brief Nr. 17, 2016.
• Inequality: India, Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2nd Edition, Macmillan Reference USA, 2013.
• Clean Air Express: The Delhi Metro's Impact on Air Quality (with Sonam Gupta), ISB Insight, Oct-Dec 2013.
• Book Review of Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee (eds.), Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective, Indian Economic Review, 46(2): 359-362, 2011.
• Why Randomized Experiments are worth the Cost, with Nachiket Mor, Alliance, 14(1): 48-49, 2009.