

Supreet Kaur
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
Supreet Kaur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on development economics and behavioral economics.
Prior to joining UC Berkeley, she was Assistant Professor at the Deparment of Economics and School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia. She is affiliated with NBER, CEPR, CESifo, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), among others.
She earned her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2012.
Recent work by Supreet Kaur
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Applying insights from psychology to help farmers plan and save for the future
A participant-centred planning intervention, that prompted farmers to think through all potential income and expenditures using categorisation and labelling, leads to smoother consumption across seasons, more savings and higher farm yields for Zambia...
Published 27.08.24
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Labour rationing: Evidence from Indian labour markets
Many rural workers turn to self-employment for lack of available jobs, not visions of entrepreneurship
Published 15.09.21
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Alleviating financial strain to drive productivity: Evidence from India
Does easing the financial stress of short-term workers by paying them earlier lead to productivity improvements?
Published 01.04.20
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Scabs: The social suppression of labour supply
Social norms help sustain wage floors with workers taking jobs at wage cuts in private, but rejecting them in public due to fear of sanctions
Published 07.10.19
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The effects of pay inequality
Pay inequality affects attendance, productivity and the social fabric of manufacturing workers in India, thus revealing impacts on firm productivity.
Published 08.02.18