Contact

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Anjali Priya Verma

Mailing Address: 2225 Speedway, BRB 1.116, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
Email: anjali.priya@utexas.edu
Twitter: @anjali_econ

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About

Anjali Verma is an Economist at Amazon, where she works on empirical economic research to help identify labor and employment-related challenges faced by Amazon's domestic and global workforce, with the aim of informing best practices and policies. She earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, with her dissertation focusing on the interaction between Labor and Development Economics. Anjali's research spans gender and racial disparities in outcomes, school disciplinary policies and peer effects, job-to-job transitions, skills matching, and upward mobility.

Previously, she was a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Delhi, where she taught Microeconomic Theory and Development Economics to B.A.(Hons) Economics students.

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PUBLICATIONS

Clean Energy Access: Gender Disparity, Health, and Labor Supply
Published, Economic Journal
with Imelda | Coverage: GlobalDev , EnergyEcoLab , Vox
Received International Geneva Award 2023
Presentations: NEUDC 2019, ACEGD ISI 2019, SEA 2020, PAA 2020 (event cancelled), EAERE-FEEM Summer School 2020*, University of Luxembourg 2020*, Paris School of Economics 2020*, Paris Dauphine University 2020*, IHEID 2020*, Loyola University Chicago 2020*, World Bank 2021*

Disruptive Interactions: Long-run Peer Effects of Disciplinary Schools
Published, Economics of Education Review
with A. Yonah Meiselman
Presentations: Northwestern University(2022), Missouri State University(2022), San Diego State University(2022), University of Nevada Las Vegas(2022), IIM Ahmedabad(2022), Ashoka University(2022), ISB Hyderabad(2022), University of Queensland (2022), SEA 2021, Delhi School of Economics CDE Seminars, ACEGD ISI 2021

Disability, Special Education Setting, and Students’ Outcome
Published, Texas ERC Policy Briefs

WORKING PAPERS

Female Labor Supply Response to Alimony: Evidence from Massachusetts
R&R, Economic Inquiry
with Vinayak Iyer
Presentations: APPAM Seminar Series 2021 | SEA 2021

Can Technology Mitigate the Impact of Heat on Labor Productivity? Experimental Evidence from India
R&R, Economics and Human Biology
with Anna Custers, Bhavani P. Kasina and Deepak Saraswat | Coverage: IGC - Ideas For India

How do Electorally Vulnerable Politicians Allocate Effort? Evidence from Canada
with Vinayak Iyer

SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS

From Classroom to Labor Market: The Divergent Paths of Black and White Americans
with Sam Arenberg and Seth Neller

Exclusionary Discipline: Impact of Student Removal to Disciplinary Alternative Programs in Texas
with A. Yonah Meiselman | Presentations: APPAM Seminar Series 2021*

In The Dark: Impact of Streetlight Outages on Crimes
with Alberto Chong, Michele Baggio, Vinayak Iyer, and Nishith Prakash

*presented by co-author

Anjali P. Verma