Upasak Das

University of Manchester

Upasak Das is a Senior Lecturer in Development Economics at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. He was previously a Presidential Fellow (Academic) in Economics of Poverty Reduction and is a research affiliate at the Centre for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics. His work focuses on development economics, applied econometrics, and impact evaluation, with research interests spanning social protection programs, education, health, social norms, and empirical political economy. He has worked extensively on measuring social networks and the social drivers of behavior related to sanitation and open defecation in rural and urban Bihar and Tamil Nadu, as part of his postdoctoral fellowship with the Penn Social Norms Group (PennSONG) at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining Manchester, he was an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Trivandrum, where he taught courses in impact evaluation, development economics, and mathematical economics. Das earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai.