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Aditi is a third year PhD student in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She studies barriers to female labor force participation and how social norms interact with economic shocks to perpetuate gender inequality. She was previously working as India Director at Development Data Lab, where she produced research on in-group judicial bias in India, upward mobility in South Asia, excess mortality during Covid-19 and implications of cultural distance on economic opportunity in India. She holds a MPA from Princeton University and a BA in Economics and Political Science from Cornell University.
Posts by Aditi Bhowmick
Do judges favour defendants like themselves? Evidence from Indian courts
Around the world, research has shown that people in positions of power tend to favour those who share their social identity. To examine whether the same is true in Indian courts, this article analyses...
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Elliot Ash
Samuel Asher
Aditi Bhowmick
Sandeep Bhupatiraju
Christoph Goessmann
Daniel Li Chen
Paul Novosad
29 September, 2025
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