Nandana Sengupta

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Nandana Sengupta

Nandana Sengupta is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She received her Ph.D. in Economics at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015. Her research lies at the intersection of applied machine learning and economics, with a particular focus on Indian labour markets, survey design, adaptive surveys and algorithmic bias.

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प्रौद्योगिकी में लड़कियाँ : आईआईटी की अतिरिक्त सीट योजना का मूल्यांकन

वर्ष 2018 में शुरू की गई अतिरिक्त सीट योजना (सुपरन्यूमरेरी सीट्स स्कीम) का उद्देश्य परंपरागत रूप से पुरुष-प्रधान रहे आईआईटी संस्थानों के स्नातक इंजीनियरिंग छात्रों में स्त्री-पुरुष अनुपात में सुधार लाना है। लेख बताता है कि यह पहल इन प्रतिष्ठित संस्थानों में अधिक लड़कियों की भर्ती में सफल रही है। इसके अलावा, यद्यपि लड़कियों की शुरूआत प्रवेश स्तर पर निचले रैंकों से होती है, वे औसतन कार्यक्रम अवधि में शैक्षणिक रूप से अपने पुरुष समकक्षों के बराबर आ जाती हैं।

08 July 2025
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Girls in tech: Evaluating IIT’s Supernumerary Seats Scheme

Introduced in 2018, the Supernumerary Seats Scheme seeks to improve gender ratios among undergraduate engineering students at IITs, which have historically been male dominated. This article shows that the initiative has been successful in getting more females into these elite institutions. Further, on average, although girls start off with lower entry ranks, they are able to match up with their male counterparts academically over the duration of the programme

21 May 2025
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Social Identity
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