Aparna Anand is a Lecturer of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research combines theories of economics of education and behavioral concepts in a policy framework setting. Her research on how low-income parents in Southern India make educational investments uses field data to analyze whether parents identify themselves by their occupation, whether parents substitute their children’s labor for their own, and how these occurrences impact parents’ educational investments in their children. Her interests also include the field of experimental economics. In a study of choice experiment, she explored the phenomenon of context dependent preference such as asymmetric dominance hypothesis. One of her current projects looks at the varying beliefs of teachers, parents and students and whether such dissonance in beliefs influence educational investments. Aparna is also a research affiliate of the Center for Development Economics and Sustainability at Monash University in Australia.
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