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Smriti Sharma
Smriti Sharma is Assistant Professor of Economics at Newcastle University Business School. Her research specialisation is in development economics, labour economics, and behavioural economics. Within these fields, her works spans the following three areas – (i) education, skills, and labour markets, (ii) political economy of development, and (iii) caste and gender-based disadvantage and discrimination. She works with both secondary data and primary data collected using surveys and experiments. She obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the Delhi School of Economics.
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Peer influence and human capital accumulation: Evidence from Delhi University colleges
College is an important milestone in life that is believed to develop several aspects of an individual's human capital, broadly defined to include both cognitive and socio-emotional traits. Consequently, there is great emphasis on obtaining admission into a more selective college. This column draws upon data from Delhi University to examine the returns to enrolling in a more selective college.
