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Ashutosh Thakur

National University of Singapore
adthakur@nus.edu.sg

Ashutosh Thakur is an Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD in Political Economics from Stanford Graduate School of Business and A.B. in Economics from Princeton University. Prior to joining NUS, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cologne's Cluster of Excellence ECONTribute: Markets and Public Policy. He is also a Faculty Associate of the Center on Asia and Globalization.

His research uses tools from market design, matching theory, and game theory to study institutional design in development and political economy.

Posts by Ashutosh Thakur

सकारात्मक कार्रवाई को लागू करने हेतु डिजाइन विकल्प

आशुतोष ठाकुर इस व्याख्यात्मक लेख में विभिन्न तरीकों की व्याख्या करते हैं जिनके जरिये सकारात्मक कार्रवाई नीतियों को लागू किया जा सकता है। साथ हीं, वे इसमें अंतर्निहित व्यापार और मुद्दों पर भी चर्चा करत...

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Design choices for implementing affirmative action

In this expository piece, Ashutosh Thakur explains the various ways in which affirmative action policies can be implemented, and discusses the underlying tradeoffs and issues at hand. He delineates th...

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Rethinking cadre allocation procedures in civil services

The allocation procedure of All-India Services’ officers to states is an important aspect of personnel administration in the public sector. This article shows that a change in allocation policy in 2...

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