Utteeyo Dasgupta

tteeyo Dasgupta is an Associate Professor of Economics at Fordham University. He is a behavioral economist who is broadly interested in the positive, normative, and strategic aspects of decision-making. Using experimental methods he studies economic behavior in the labor market, ways to combat corruption, issues of discrimination, decisions under uncertainty, and the role of gender and institutions in shaping preferences.

Professor Dasgupta’s academic work has been published in The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, World Development, and other peer-reviewed journals.

He is affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) as a Research Fellow, and with the Global Labor Organization (GLO) as a Fellow. He serves as an Associate Editor, for the journal Studies in Microeconomics, and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Behavioral Public Administration (JBPA). He also served as a Guest Editor for the special issue of Studies in Microeconomics on Behavioral and Experimental Economics: Theories and Applications (volume 7, issue 1, June 2019).

Professor Dasgupta earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Arizona, and his M.A. in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. His teaching interests are in Microeconomic Theory and in particular Game Theory, Industrial Organization, and Experimental/Behavioral Economics. He has previously taught at the University of Arizona, Franklin and Marshall College, and at Wagner College.