Anomita Ghosh is an applied microeconomist specialising in Labour Economics and Public Economics. In her work, she combines theory, rich survey data, administrative records, data from web portals, and the latest causal inference methods to explain how individuals and firms respond to government policies aimed at promoting labour market inclusion. Her current research reflects a broader interest in topics that delve into how labour market policies interact with institutions to improve people’s lives in the face of behavioural biases among policy beneficiaries and decision-makers. She obtained her PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2022 and is currently working as an Associate Fellow at the National Data innovation Centre at NCAER.
She received her Masters from Delhi School of Economics and MPhil from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. Prior to her PhD, she worked as an Economist at the National Stock Exchange, Mumbai, and as Research Associate at CAFRAL, Reserve Bank of India.