Gaurav Chiplunkar

Gaurav Chiplunkar joined the GEM area as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2019. Gaurav’s research interests are at the intersection of development and labor economics and examines on the one hand, how large industrial policies affect firm behavior and on the other, how frictions in the labor market constrain job search, recruitment and hiring practices by workers and firms. He also studies how policy reforms and new technologies can help mitigate these frictions.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Yale University (2013 — 2019)
• M.Phil University of Cambridge (2010 — 2011)
• M.Sc The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2008 — 2010)
• B.A. (Hons) Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi (2005 — 2008)

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Business Administration University of Virginia Darden School of Business (2019)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Yale Economic Growth Center (2020 — 2020)
• Consultant to the Chief Economist The World Bank (2019 — 2020)
• Research Manager Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) (2013 — 2013)
• Research Associate Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) (2011 — 2012)
• Research Assistant New Policy Institute (2009 — 2009)
• Summer Internship Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2006 — 2006)

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2020 MBA Professor to Look Out For in 2020, Business Because
  (List of 20 new business school professors featured as rising stars in the MBA world)
• 2019 Robert F. Bruner Fund for Faculty Excellence, University of Virginia
• 2018 Evans Hemingway Scholarship
• 2017 Louis K. and Marie L. Kofsky Fellow, Yale University
• 2016 Carl Arvid Anderson Prize Fellowship, Cowles Foundation, Yale University
• 2014 Richard J. Bernhard Fellowship, Yale University
• 2014 Coca Cola World Fund Fellow
• 2015-18 Ryochi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship
• 2013-17 Yale University Economic Growth Center Fellowship
• 2013-19 Yale University Graduate Fellowship

Publications

• Political institutions and policy responses during a crisis with Sabyasachi Das Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, May 2021 Coverage: Ideas to Action

Working papers

• Aggregate implications of barriers to female entrepreneurship with Pinelopi K. Goldberg, October 2021
  Coverage: Research Wire, Vox EU, Economics & Marginalia, Ideas to Action Podcast, Forbes India

• How important are matching frictions in the labor market? Evidence from a large Indian firm with Abhijit V. Banerjee, September 2021 Coverage: PEDL CEPR interview

• Equilibrium effects of size-based policies on multiproduct firms
  September 2019

• Not too little, but too late: Improving post-primary learning outcomes in India with Diva Dhar and Radhika Nagesh, September 2021

• Marriage markets and the rise of dowry in India with Jeff Weaver, August 2021
  Coverage: World Bank, Live Mint, Ideas for India, Global Dev, Ideas to Action, Soch, BBC

Selected works in progress

• Labor laws and informality
  (with Ritam Chaurey and Vidhya Soundararajan)
• Volatility and development
  (with Rafael Dix-Carniero, Pravin Krishna and Mine Senses)
• The effect of storage capacity on price dynamics and production
  (with Sabyasachi Das and Shivakumar Venkatraman)

Policy/Media writings

• Which jobs are lost during a lockdown? Evidence from vacancy postings in India
  with Erin Kelley and Greg Lane, August 2020
  Coverage: Ideas for India, The Economic Times, International Growth Centre
• “Unless operational constraints on firms are removed, amending labor laws won’t work” , Hindustan Times, 26 May 2020 (with Ritam Chaurey)
  
• “The MSME sector is critical in times of COVID-19”, Hindustan Times, 03 April 2020
  (with Ritam Chaurey and Vidhya Soundararajan)
• Who gets LPG subsidies?”, Economic Survey of India, 2013.
  (with Abhijit Banerjee)