About Me

I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Economics department of New York University in Abu Dhabi. I use a combination of applied microeconomic theory and experiments to study questions in behavioral, development, labor and political economy. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine in May 2022.


I am on the Economics Job Market, 2024-2025 (JMP).


Research Fields: Development Economics, Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Political Economy, Applied Microeconomic Theory


Contact: nishtha.sharma@nyu.edu

Recent Invited Talks

Department of Economics, The University of Chicago (November 14, 2024)
Northeastern Universities Development Consortium/NEUDC (November 2, 2024)
Department of Economics, Brown University (October 22, 2024)
Department of Economics, Boston University (October 21, 2024)
Department of Economics, Boston College (October 18, 2024)
Harvard Business School, Harvard University (October 17, 2024)
Department of Economics, Tufts University (October 8, 2024)