PAVITRA GOVINDAN

(she/her)

Assistant Professor

Economics

BIO

Pavitra Govindan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Utah. She is an experimental economist. Her research focuses on social norms, gender in labor markets, and motivated reasoning, among other topics in behavioral and experimental economics.

She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University.

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Assistant Professor
    Economics1 Jul 2018 - present

DEGREES

  • B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
    IIT Delhi2008
  • MA, Economics
    Delhi School of Economics2012
  • PhD, Economics
    Brown University2018

LANGUAGES

  • Hindi
  • Tamil
  • English

FIELDS OF RESEARCH