Deepti Goel

  • Assistant Professor of Economics
  • Economics Field Group
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Scott Hall 234

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With Pitzer Since: 2023

Bio

Deepti Goel is an applied microeconomist and teaches at Pitzer College in California. Before joining Pitzer, she was teaching in India for about fifteen years. She is also a research fellow at the IZA-Institute of Labor Economics, and at the Global Labor Organization, GLO. Her fields of interest are causal inference, labor economics, and development economics. One strand of her research explores how social identities, such as gender, caste, and immigrant status, influence economic and non-economic outcomes. The other seeks to understand the impacts of government policies and interventions, and the mechanisms through which they bring about change. 

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

  • PhD Economics, Boston University
  • MA Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
  • BA Economics, Ramnarain Ruia College, University of Mumbai

Applied Econometrics, Development Economics, Labor Economics

Econometrics (ECON 125)
Economics of Immigration (ECON 165)

Did the Nationwide Implementation of electronic fund management in the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme Result in Reduced Expenditures? A Re-Examination of the Evidence (with JV Meenakshi and Zaeen de Souza), Review of Development Economics (2024) http://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13105

Social Identity and Perceived Income Adequacy (with Ashwini Deshpande), Review of Development Economics (2020) 24(2): 339-361 (accepted December 2018)

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 (accepted July 2017). Blog: Ideas for India

Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants (with Kevin Lang), ILR Review (2019) 72(2): 355-381 (accepted December 2016) 

Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India: 2004-2012 (with René Morissette and Shantanu Khanna), IZA Journal of Labor & Development (2016)  5:18. 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 (accepted August 2015). Blog: Ideas for India

Perceptions of Immigrants in Australia after 9/11 (2010), Economic Record 86: 5