Manasi Deshpande
Manasi Deshpande Executive Assistant: Anastacia Bersch Office: Office: SHFE 347 Phone: (773) 795-2944 Email Interests:

Empirical public finance and labor economics, effects of social insurance and public assistance programs, and labor markets

Associate Professor in Economics and the College; Co-Director, Graduate Placement

Manasi Deshpande is an associate professor of economics with tenure at the University of Chicago Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests include the optimal design of social safety net programs, their interaction with labor markets, and their effects on consumption, health, and well-being. She has received the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER award, and William T. Grant Scholarship. Her dissertation on the long-term effects of disability programs received the 2015 APPAM Dissertation Award, the 2015 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award, and the 2016 NASI John Heinz Dissertation Award. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Becker-Friedman Institute. 

At Chicago since 2016