Utteeyo Dasgupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 4619509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Utteeyo Dasgupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Utteeyo |
| FAMILY NAME | Dasgupta |
| SIGNATURE | DASGUPTA U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wagner College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4187-0494 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Games of prejudice - experiments with adolescents
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality
Hierarchies in social identities are integrally related to divergences in economic status. In India, caste is a significant social identity where discriminatory practices have resulted in poor outcomes for the lower castes. While there is considerable research on differences in economic outcomes along caste lines, there is limited work on behavioral preferences and personality traits that can also be adversely affected by such identity hierarchie…
Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality
We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that enrolling in a selective college improves university exam scores of the marginally admitted women and makes them less overconfident and less risk averse, wh…
Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition
Searching for preference stability in a state dependent world
Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India
This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. Child caregivers participate in a novel allocation game where we incorporate treatments to disentangle statistical and taste-based discrimination. Our findings find no evidence of taste-based discrimination or statistical discrimination among the chil…
Only Mine or All Ours
Only Mine or All Ours
Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India
This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. Child caregivers participate in a novel allocation game where we incorporate treatments to disentangle statistical and taste-based discrimination. Our findings find no evidence of taste-based discrimination or statistical discrimination among the chil…
Searching for preference stability in a state dependent world
Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition
Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality
We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that enrolling in a selective college improves university exam scores of the marginally admitted women and makes them less overconfident and less risk averse, wh…
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality
Hierarchies in social identities are integrally related to divergences in economic status. In India, caste is a significant social identity where discriminatory practices have resulted in poor outcomes for the lower castes. While there is considerable research on differences in economic outcomes along caste lines, there is limited work on behavioral preferences and personality traits that can also be adversely affected by such identity hierarchie…
Games of prejudice - experiments with adolescents
Psychology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (4 works) · Big Five personality traits (3 works) · Microeconomics (3 works) · Personality (3 works) · Preference (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)