NCAER - NATIONAL DATA INNOVATION CENTRE
Nishat Anjum is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) at NCAER. She uses a combination of applied microeconomic theory and experiments to study questions in gender, labour, political economy, and behavioural development economics. She has been an Intern at the World Bank in the summer of 2025, where she helped design large-scale RCTs to understand how social norms affect youth behaviour. Earlier, she has worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University in 2021, on the India Working Survey (IWS).
Nishat holds a PhD and MA in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, and a BSc (Hons) in Economics from St Xavier’s College, Kolkata.