I am a Masters Econ student at the Department of Economics at Delhi School of Economics. I graduated from Miranda House College, University of Delhi, with an Economics as my major and Mathematics as my minor, in 2020.

I am interested in learning how and why people make decisions they make and then using that for important policy implications. I am assisting Prof. Ram Singh at DSE in estimating wealth of the selected percentiles of the Indian Wealth distributions, and Prof. Supreet Kaur and her colleagues at CEGA, UC Berkeley, on multiple exciting applied behavioral econ projects! At Dvara Research, I worked with the Social Protection Initiative team by analyzing rich CMIE datasets to answer questions on financial exclusion pre- and post-Covid. In the past, I assisted Ronak Jain on multiple applied behavioral and experimental econ projects. Currently, I am working on studying possible behavioral drivers of the differences in early labor outcomes of the first-generation and non-first-generation students, with Meet Mehta. This research is supported by the Institute of Economic Growth. Please get in touch with me to learn more!

As a first-generation student myself, I wish to study more about intergenerational socioeconomic mobility, education in future research by possibly using tools from data and behavioral economics.

I am a big tennis fan, and love playing badminton. I also love watching movies. If you want to talk about my or your research interests, data, tennis, or movies, please get in touch! I'd love to hear from you!

Email: aartimalik96@gmail.com
Twitter: @aarti_pepa