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Academics

Academic Background:

Consulting Interests:

• Estimating Potential of Villages in India for Financial Services with BCNet India Private Limited, 2022-2024
• Survey of Gig workers in India with NCAER, 2021

Experience

Work Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Economics, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, 2022-2024
• Associate Fellow, NCAER, New Delhi, 2018-2021
• Consultant, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Private Limited, 2012-2013

Research

Journal Publications:

Garg, Sandhya, Samarth Gupta, and Sushanta Mallick. "Does Social Identity Constrain Rural Entrepreneurship? Evidence on the Role of Financial Inclusion." Journal of Development Economics (Forthcoming)

Garg, Sandhya, Samarth Gupta, and Sushanta Mallick. "Financial access and entrepreneurship by gender: Evidence from rural India." Small Business Economics Volume 64 (2025): 729-754 

Chatterjee, C., Gupta S. (2024) “Public Entry, Heterogeneous Consumers and Private Prices: New Evidence from India” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 219 (2024): 473-489

Bhandari, B., Gupta S., Sahu, A., Urs, K. (2024) “Impact of Adaptation Strategies on Business Expectations: Evidence from India during the Pandemic”  Indian Economic Journalhttps://doi.org/10.1177/00194662231214680     

 

Dasgupta, M., Gupta, S. (2023) What Determines Enterprise Borrowing from Self Help Groups? An Interpretable Supervised Machine Learning Approach. Journal of Financial Services Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10693-023-00416-4

 

Gupta, S. (2023) Model-Selection Inference for Causal Impact of Clusters and Collaboration on MSMEs in India. Journal of Quantitative Economics. 21, 641–662. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40953-023-00349-8

 

Garg, S. and Gupta, S. (2023), "What influences village-level access to a bank branch? Evidence from India", International Journal of Bank Marketing, Vol. 41 No. 4, pp. 882-902. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBM-08-2022-0360

 

Bhandari, B., Gupta S., Sahu, A., Urs, K. (2021) "Business sentiments during India’s national lockdown: Lessons for second and potential third wave." Indian Economic Review: 1-16.

Research Interests:

Industrial Organization, Financial Inclusion