• Applied Microeconomics
• Health Economics
• Economics of Crime
• Bias-motivated Behaviour

Indulekha holds a PhD and a master’s degree in economics from Purdue University, United States as well as a Master’s and Bachelor’s with Honours in Economics from Presidency University, Kolkata. 

Her research aims to analyse bias-motivated behaviour such as hate crimes and hate speech and their effects on the economy. Her dissertation, titled ​“Empirical essays on bias-motivated behaviour” addresses the relationship between legislation and hate crimes, election timing and hate crimes, and toxic speech on social media around election time. 

She uses a variety of causal inference techniques to analyse survey and administrative data to inform policy to address discrimination and bias-motivated behaviour. Currently, she is interested in several research areas such as bias-motivated speech in social media, political régime changes and crimes against women in India, and gender norms surrounding older women’s self-reported health outcomes as evidenced by Indian survey data. 

She has taught undergraduate courses in Microeconomics, Health Economics, and International Trade and graduate-level courses in Econometrics, Health Economics and Macroeconomics at Purdue University, United States.