Sutanuka Roy

Dr Sutanuka Roy is a Senior Lecturer of Economics at the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University (ANU) and a John Mitchell Fellow. She is also a Research Scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago, and a Fellow of the World Inequality Database (WID). In addition, she is an invited Researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), where she is affiliated under multiple competitive funding initiatives. She is also affiliated with the Weiss Fund at the University of Chicago.

Dr Roy earned her PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the highly competitive Clarendon Scholarship in recognition of her academic excellence.

Her research sits at the intersection of behavioural and cultural economics, with a strong emphasis on the use of both structural econometrics and reduced-form empirical methods. She has published in several of the most influential journals in the discipline, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Economic Growth.

PhD in Economics, London School of Economics

Behavioral Economics, Economic History and Economics of Culture