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PAVITRA GOVINDAN

(she/her)

Assistant Professor

Economics

Orcid identifier0000-0002-4053-4256
  • Assistant Professor
    Economics

BIO

Pavitra Govindan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University in May 2018. Her research interests include experimental and behavioral economics, development economics and applied game theory. Her research has focused on the effect of formal rules on social norm change and behavioral change. She is now expanding her expertise in social norms to study gender.

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Assistant Professor
    Economics1 Jul 2018 - present

DEGREES

  • B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
    IIT Delhi2008
  • MA, Economics
    Delhi School of Economics2012
  • PhD, Economics
    Brown University2018

LANGUAGES

  • Hindi
  • Tamil
  • English

FIELDS OF RESEARCH