i Advait R. Aiyer
I study education markets in the developing world using tools from applied microeconomics and empirical industrial organization. My research examines how pricing, regulation, and institutional incentives shape access and quality in Indian higher education.
Presently, I work as an Associate at The Brattle Group, where I focus on antitrust litigation and consumer protection matters across industries. I earned a PhD in Applied Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where I was the 2024--25 Sobti Family Doctoral Fellow at Penn's Center for the Advanced Study of India. I am also affiliated with the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI-DevLab).
Prior to graduate school, 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]
[Policy Brief]
Selective Admissions and Academic Value-Added
with G. Khanna, N. Kumar, and K. Muralidharan
[Draft]
Unintended Consequences of Tuition Price Regulation: Caste, Gender, and College Outcomes
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
Alleviating Loneliness Among Migrant Garment Workers in India
with A. Adhvaryu, A. Nyshadham, A. Russell, H. Schofield, and P. Souza
[AEA Registry]
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]
