i Advait R. Aiyer


I am a 5th-year PhD candidate in the Applied Economics program at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. I am also the 2024-25 Sobti Family Doctoral Fellow at Penn's Center for the Advanced Study of India. My research combines insights from applied microeconomics and empirical industrial organization to study education markets in the developing world.
My job market paper examines the impact of government price regulation in higher education markets with centralized admissions. I also enjoy causal inference methodology, applied Bayesian modeling, machine learning, and networks.
Previously, I worked as a J-PAL Research Associate at the Behavioral Development Lab. I earned an MS in Economics from the New School for Social Research and a BSc. in Economics, Mathematics, and Statistics from St. Joseph's College, Bangalore University.
Please find my CV here.

Research

Working Papers

Price Regulation in Centralized College Admission Systems
Job Market Paper
[draft]

Measuring College Quality and its Determinants
with G. Khanna, N. Kumar, and K. Muralidharan
[draft]

Multilevel Modeling of Infant Mortality in India
with J. Bautista and A. Pavlakis
[draft]

In Progress

Price Regulation, Affirmative Action, and Education Quality: Evidence from Indian Higher Education
[draft coming soon]

Alleviating Loneliness Among Migrant Garment Workers in India
with A. Adhvaryu, A. Nyshadham, A. Russell, H. Schofield, and P. Souza
[AEA Registry] [USAID DIV]

Published

Bayesian Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
with J. Bautista and A. Pavlakis
International Journal of Eating Disorders. 2018 Jul;51(7):637-646. DOI: 10.1002/eat.22928.
[Online] [PDF]


Teaching

Instructor

Quantitative Reasoning II: Research Methods and Data Visualization []

Teaching Assistant

BEPP 2030: Business in the Global Political Economy (grader) []
BEPP 1000: Introductory Microeconomics []
BEPP 2500: Managerial Economics []
MGEC 6110/6120: Microeconomics for Managers (Wharton Executive MBA) []
HCMG 901: Applied Econometrics []
GECO 6200: Advanced Microeconomics I []