Utteeyo Dasgupta
Utteeyo 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.
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.
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investigate the role of procedural altruism in household decision-making and
study choices of married spouses. Subjects can allocate their earnings from the
experiment either on food items (joint consumption good), or on gender specific
personal clothing (private consumption good). Subjects’ consumption choices are
observed under two treatments – earnings with effort, and earnings without effort.
At the aggregate level we find that subjects exhibit a strong preference for own
private consumption good when assigned to the effort treatment. However, further
scrutiny suggests that women’s choice for the joint consumption good in the
household remains largely independent of the treatment. In contrast, men exhibit a
stronger preference for private consumption good in the effort treatment.
The paper builds a classroom activity to nudge students towards thinking in a backward-inductive
manner. The pedagogic innovation is in introducing the game repeatedly with progressively
smaller action spaces in every repetition. As the numbers of available actions become smaller and
smaller in the reduced games, students stumble on to the backwardly inductive winning strategy.
The described procedures are also useful in laying down the intuitive foundations of the concepts
of dominant strategies, and first- and second-mover advantages.
Working Papers by Utteeyo Dasgupta
Papers by Utteeyo Dasgupta
investigate the role of procedural altruism in household decision-making and
study choices of married spouses. Subjects can allocate their earnings from the
experiment either on food items (joint consumption good), or on gender specific
personal clothing (private consumption good). Subjects’ consumption choices are
observed under two treatments – earnings with effort, and earnings without effort.
At the aggregate level we find that subjects exhibit a strong preference for own
private consumption good when assigned to the effort treatment. However, further
scrutiny suggests that women’s choice for the joint consumption good in the
household remains largely independent of the treatment. In contrast, men exhibit a
stronger preference for private consumption good in the effort treatment.
The paper builds a classroom activity to nudge students towards thinking in a backward-inductive
manner. The pedagogic innovation is in introducing the game repeatedly with progressively
smaller action spaces in every repetition. As the numbers of available actions become smaller and
smaller in the reduced games, students stumble on to the backwardly inductive winning strategy.
The described procedures are also useful in laying down the intuitive foundations of the concepts
of dominant strategies, and first- and second-mover advantages.