Ina Ganguli

• Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011
• M.P.P., University of Michigan, 2004
• B.A., Northwestern University, 2001

• Full Professor (with tenure), Dept. of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019 - present
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019 - 2023
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015 - present
• Associate Director, Computational Social Science Institute (CSSI), University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2018 – present
• Affiliated Researcher, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics, 2015 - present
• Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS), Harvard University, 2012 – present
• Fellow, Center for International Development (CID), Harvard University, 2011 – present
• Assistant Professor, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics, 2012-2014
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Business School-Harvard Medical School Innovation Lab, 2011-2012
• Director, Computational Social Science Institute (CSSI), University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2022– present
• Associate Director, Computational Social Science Institute (CSSI), University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2018– 2022

• Labor economics, Economics of Science & Innovation, Development Economics, Economic History.
• Recent research has focused on migration of high-skill workers, gender differences in the labor market, social entrepreneurship and scientific collaboration.
• Regional expertise on Russia, Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union.

• Economics 341: Labor Economics
• Economics 452: Econometrics
• Economics 397ST: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation
• Economics 781: Graduate Labor Economics

• Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) Scholar, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015-2016
• W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, 2011
• Allyn A. Young Teaching Prize for excellence in teaching Principles of Economics, Harvard University (2009)
• U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Ukraine (2004)
• Russian National Prize in Applied Economics, 2018
• Best Paper Award, 14th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference, 2017

• AEA Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) Board Member, 2022 – present
• Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), 2023-present
• Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) Executive Committee, 2017-2019

• NBER Innovation Policy Group Grant (with Jeffrey Lin), 2016-2017
• EPoD-HRDF Saudi Arabia Labor Market Research Pilot Grant (with Basit Zafar), Harvard Kennedy School, 2016-2017
• W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Early Career Research Award, 2016-2017
• NESTA Innovation Growth Lab Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Growth Experiments Research Grant (with Christian Catalini), 2014-2016
• SEFORIS Social Entrepreneurship Research Program, European Commission (with Chloé Le Coq), 2014-2016
• Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Eurasia Program Postdoctoral Fellowship (US State Department, Title VIII), 2012-2014

• American Economic Association
• Association for Comparative Economic Studies

2022 – : Director, Computational Social Science Institute (CSSI), UMass Amherst

2021 – : Research Fellow, The Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

2021 – : Advisory Editor, Research Policy

2022 – : Board Member, AEA Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession

2015 – : Affiliated Researcher, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics

2012 – : Affiliated Researcher, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard University

Current:

2019 – : Associate Professor (with tenure), Dept. of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Previous:

2015 – 2019: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, UMass Amherst

2018 – 2021: Associate Director, Computational Social Science Institute (CSSI), UMass

2017 – 2019: Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES), Executive Committee

2012 – 2014: Assistant Professor, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics

2011 – 2012: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Business School-Harvard Medical School

• "Saving Soviet Science: The Impact of Grants When Government R&D Funding Disappears", American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2017).
• "A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations" (with Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Patrick Gaulé, Eva Guinan, Tony Hollenberg and Karim Lakhani), Review of Economics and Statistics (2017).
• "It’s Good to Be First: Order Bias in Reading and Citing NBER Working Papers" (with Daniel Feenberg, Patrick Gaulé and Jonathan Gruber), Review of Economics and Statistics (2017).
• "The Mobility of Elite Life Scientists: Professional and Personal Determinants" (with Pierre Azoulay and Joshua Graff Zivin), Research Policy (2017).
• "Immigration & Ideas: What Did Russian Scientists 'Bring' to the US?" The Journal of Labor Economics, ​Vol. 33, No. S1, pp. S257-S288 (Part 2, July 2015).
• "Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration" (with Richard Freeman and Raviv Murciano-Goroff), in Adam Jaffe and Benjamin Jones (eds), The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, National Bureau of Economic Research & University of Chicago Press (2015).
• "Who Leaves and Who Stays? Evidence on Immigrant Selection from the Collapse of Soviet Science", in Aldo Geuna (ed), Global Mobility of Research Scientists: The Economics of Who Goes Where and Why, Elsevier (2015).
• "Scientific Brain Drain and Human Capital Formation After the End of the Soviet Union. International Migration, 52: 95–110 (2014).
• "Closing The Gender Gap In Education: What Is The State Of Gaps In Labour Force Participation For Women, Wives And Mothers?" (with Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo), International Labour Review 153: 173–207 (2014).
• "Marriage, Education and Assortative Mating in Latin America" (with Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo), Applied Economics Letters 21(12), 806-811 (2014).
• "Russian-American Scientific Collaboration" in Y.P. Tretyakov (ed), Russian-Аmerican Links: Leaps Forward and Backward in Academic Cooperation. St. Petersburg, Russia: Nestor-Historia, pp. 120-135 (2012).
• "The Dynamics of the Gender Gap: How do Countries Rank in Terms of Making Marriage and Motherhood Compatible with Work?" (with Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo) in Ricardo Hausmann, Laura D. Tyson, Saadia Zahidi (eds), The Global Gender Gap Report 2009. Geneva: The World Economic Forum (2009).
• "Institutions, Markets and Men's and Women's Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine" (with Katherine Terrell), Journal of Comparative Economics, 34(2): 200-227 (2006).
• “Top Talent, Elite Colleges and Migration: Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology” (with Prithwiraj Choudhury and Patrick Gaulé), Journal of Development Economics, 164 (2023).
• “Chasing the Academic Dream: Biased Beliefs and Scientific Labor Markets,” (with Patrick Gaulé and Danijela Vuleti? ?ugalj), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 202 (2022): 17-33.
• “The Paper Trail of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Interferences,” (with Jeffrey Lin and Nicholas Reynolds), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics,12(2), pp.278-302 (2020).

• Ganguli, Ina, Shulamit Kahn and Megan MacGarvie (eds), 2020. The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, University of Chicago Press, 2020 (NBER Conference Volume).

• Freeman, Richard B., Ina Ganguli and Michael J. Handel, 2020. “Within Occupation Changes Dominate Changes in What Workers Do: A Shift-Share Decomposition, 2005-2015”, AEA Papers and Proceedings, vol. 110, pp. 394-99. 2020.
• Ganguli, Ina and Patrick Gaulé, 2020. “Will the U.S. Keep the Best and the Brightest (as Postdocs)? Career and Location Preferences of Foreign STEM PhDs,” in Ina Ganguli, Shulamit Kahn and Megan MacGarvie (eds), The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, University of Chicago Press, 2020 (Also NBER Working Paper 24838).
• Ganguli, Ina, Ricardo Hausmann, and Martina Viarengo, 2019. “Career Dynamics and Gender Gaps Among Employees in the Microfinance Sector,” in Siwan Anderson and Jean-Philippe Platteau (eds), Towards Gender Equity in Development, Oxford University Press. 2018. (Also WIDER Working Paper 2017/117, Helsinki: UNU-WIDER, 2017.)
• Ganguli, Ina, 2017. “Was the USSR Ahead of the US in Gender Equality in Science?” Higher Education in Russia and Beyond, 4(14): 6-7 (2017).
• Ganguli, Ina, 2015. “Who Leaves and Who Stays? Evidence on Immigrant Selection from the Collapse of Soviet Science”, in Aldo Geuna (ed), Global Mobility of Research Scientists: The Economics of Who Goes Where and Why, Elsevier (2015).
• Freeman, Richard, Ina Ganguli and Raviv Murciano-Goroff, 2015. “Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration,” in Adam Jaffe and Benjamin Jones (eds), The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, University of Chicago Press (2015).
• Ganguli, Ina, 2012. “Russian-American Scientific Collaboration” in Y.P. Tretyakov (ed), Russian-Аmerican Links: Leaps Forward and Backward in Academic Cooperation. St. Petersburg, Russia: Nestor-Historia, pp. 120-135 (2012).
• Ganguli, Ina, Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo, 2009. “The Dynamics of the Gender Gap: How do Countries Rank in Terms of Making Marriage and Motherhood Compatible with Work?” in Ricardo Hausmann, Laura D. Tyson, Saadia Zahidi (eds), The Global Gender Gap Report 2009. Geneva: The World Economic Forum (2009).

• Burrage, April, Janell Ciemiecki, Stephanie Couch, and Ina Ganguli, 2022. “Inclusive Pathways to Invention: Understanding Racial and Ethnic Gaps Among Collegiate Student Inventors,” Revise and Resubmit, Technology & Innovation.
• Ganguli, Ina and Katherine Terrell, 2017. “Closing Gender Wage Gaps in Ukraine: Composition, Returns and the Minimum Wage,” Revise and Resubmit, Industrial & Labor Relations Review.
• Aloud, Monira, Sara Al-Rashood, Ina Ganguli and Basit Zafar, 2020. “Information and Social Norms: Experimental Evidence on Labor Market Aspirations of Saudi Women,” NBER Working Paper No. 26693).
• Ganguli, Ina, Patrick Gaulé and Danijela Vuletić Čugalj, 2020. “Biased Beliefs and Entry into Scientific Careers,” Upjohn Institute Working Paper 20-334.
• Agarwal, Ruchir, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaulé and Geoff Smith, 2021. “Why U.S. Immigration Barriers Matter for the Global Advancement of Science,” IZA Discussion Paper No. 14016.
• Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ina Ganguli and Patrick Gaulé, 2021. “Top Talent, Elite Colleges and Migration: Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology,” Mimeo.

• Ganguli, Ina, Patrick Gaulé, Eva Guinan and Karim Lakhani, 2017. “Do Scientists Care About Kudos? A Field Experiment on Status Rewards in Academia,” Mimeo.
• Ganguli, Ina. “Location and Scientific Productivity: Evidence from the Soviet Brain Drain,” Mimeo.
• Ganguli, Ina, 2015. “Did the Soviets Solve the “Productivity Puzzle”? Gender Differences in Science in the Soviet Union,” Mimeo.
• Ganguli, Ina and Zheng Wang, 2019. “How Does Return Migration Impact Knowledge Production? Evidence from China’s Thousand Talents Program,” Mimeo.
• “Gender Diversity in Science-Based Entrepreneurship: Social Impact Motivations and the NSF I-Corps Program” (with April Burrage and Nilanjana Dasgupta)
• “The Long-run Impacts of Patents on Inventors: Evidence from Patent Interferences” (with Jeffrey Lin and Nicholas Reynolds)
• “Factor Demand Adjustment in University Research Laboratories" (with Raviv MurcianoGoroff)
• “Immigration Restriction and Literacy: Evidence from Ellis Island Ship Manifests” (with Jenny Withrow)
• “Multi-Disciplinary Researchers: Field Experimental Evidence” (with Kevin Boudreau)
• “The Costs of Discriminating: Evidence from Employment Discrimination Lawsuits” (with Fidan Kurtulus, Douglas Rice and Tiffany Trzebiatowski)

• "Embracing the gift of global talent,” IMF Finance & Development Magazine (with Ruchir Agarwal and Patrick Gaulé), Spring 2021.
• “Around the world in the legal profession: Women get in, but not up,” VoxEU.org (with Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo), July 9, 2020.
• “Do changing gender norms counteract the effects of information on the aspirations of Saudi women?” VoxDev.org (with Monira Essa Aloud, Sara Al-Rashood, and Basit Zafar), April 27, 2020.
• “Order Effects in Reading and Citing Academic Papers,” VoxEU.org (with Daniel Feenberg, Patrick Gaulé, Jonathan Gruber), June 6, 2014.
• “Does Immigration Help Diffuse Knowledge? Evidence from Russian Scientists” Forum for Research on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies (FREE) Policy Brief, Nov. 24, 2014.
• “Putting the “I” Back in Team: The Rise of International Teams in Science” Forum for Research on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies (FREE) Policy Brief, January 20, 2014.
• “Fact or Fiction? The Reversal of the Gender Education Gap across the World and the Former Soviet Union” Forum for Research on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies Policy Brief, March 4, 2013.
• “New Support for Russian Universities: New Centers of Scientific Research?” IREX EPS Scholar Research Brief, October 2012.
• “Migration in Azerbaijan: The Transition to a Destination Country?” IREX EPS Scholar Research Brief, May 1, 2010.
• “Tajik Labor Migration to Russia: Is Tajikistan at a Crossroads?” IREX EPS Scholar Research Brief, September 30, 2009.

• 2019-2022: NBER Advancing the Science of Science Funding Grant (with Stephanie Couch, Lemelson-MIT Program, $4,500)
• 2019-2020: NSF Convergence Accelerator Pilot, Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (UMass team, $838,722)
• 2018-2022: Sloan Foundation grant for Job Market for Older Workers as Retirement Recedes and Robots Do More Work (OWRR) project (with Richard Freeman, UMass amount $61,187)
• 2018-2019: UMass Institute of Diversity Science seed grant (with Fidan Kurtulus, Douglas Rice and Tiffany Trzebiatowski, $7,526)
• 2017-2018: NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy Conference grant (with Megan MacGarvie and Shulamit Kahn, $45,900)
• 2016-2017: EPoD Harvard Kennedy School-HRDF Saudi Arabia Labor Market Research grant (with Basit Zafar, $99,962)
• 2016-2017: NBER Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, Innovation Policy group grant (with Jeffrey Lin, $20,000)
• 2016-2017: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Early Career Research Award ($5,000)
• 2015-2016: Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) Scholar, University of Massachusetts
• 2014-2015: NESTA Innovation Growth Lab innovation, entrepreneurship and growth experiments research grant (with Christian Catalini, £25,000)
• 2014-2015: SEFORIS Social Entrepreneurship Research Program, European Commission (SITE team, €280,830)
• 2013-2014: Tore Browaldh Fellowship, Browaldh Foundation and Handelsbanken, Sweden
• 2012-2014: Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Eurasia Program Postdoctoral Fellowship (US State Department, Title VIII) ($19,000)
• 2009: The Institute for Quantitative Social Science Research Grant, Harvard University
• 2009: Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Travel Grant, Harvard University
• 2009: Center for International Development Research Grant, Harvard University
• 2008: Women and Public Policy Program Research Grant, Harvard University
• 2005-2007: John F. Kennedy School of Government Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard University
• 2004-2005: U.S. Fulbright Scholar, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine)
• 2003-2004: Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, University of Michigan (US State Department, Title VIII)
• 2002-2003: Edward Gramlich Fellowship, University of Michigan
• 2001-2002: International Parliamentary Fellow, German Bundestag/Humboldt University

Current:

• Hannah Archambault, Co-Chair, Dissertation Committee
• April Burrage, Dissertation Committee Member
• Travis Campbell, Dissertation Committee Member
• Carly McCann, Dissertation Committee Member
• Annie McGrew, Pre-Dissertation Advisor
• Narayani Sritharan, Dissertation Committee Member
• Simon Sturn, Dissertation Committee Member

Former:

• Doruk Cengiz, Dissertation Committee Member (Placement: OMP Data Scientist)
• Manuel Garcia, Dissertation Committee Member (Placement: Smith College)
• Kuo Chih Huang, Dissertation Committee Member (Placement: UC Berkeley Postdoc)
• Sai Madhurika Mamunuru, Dissertation Committee Member (Placement: Assistant Professor, Whitman College)
• Karmen Naidoo, Dissertation Committee Member (Placement: IMF)
• Ryan Wallace, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, Dissertation Committee Member (Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Southern Maine)
• Jennifer Withrow, Dissertation Committee Member (Placement: U.S. Census Bureau)

External Member:

• Wolf-Hendrik Uhlbach, PhD Defense Committee, Copenhagen Business School

• 2021: ASSA-SABE Meetings; IOS Regensburg; MIT Sloan; IZA-HSE; Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition; University of Luxembourg; NBER Summer Institute-Innovation
• 2020: ASSA-AEA Meetings, San Diego; Workshop on Migration, Globalization and the Knowledge Economy; Georgetown University
• 2019: CUNY Queens College; Workshop on Migration, Globalization and the Knowledge Economy, Utrecht, Netherlands (Keynote); Northwestern University, Kellogg; University of Connecticut; Harvard Kennedy School
• 2018: ASSA-AEA Meetings, Philadelphia; EPFL-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland; NBER-NSF-Kauffman Foundation Conference on The Role of Immigrants and Foreign Students in Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship; DRUID PDW, Copenhagen, Denmark; Innovation Growth Lab (IGL) 2018 Global Conference, Boston; HBS Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Boston
• 2017: HBS Conference on the Scientific Production Function, Boston
• 2016: Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan; Harvard Economics of Science & Engineering Workshop; Innovation Growth Lab Winter Meeting, Boston; SITE, Stockholm School of Economics
• 2015: ASSA-ACES Meetings, Boston; Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference, Bethesda; Williams College 2014: Northeastern University; NBER Summer Institute, Innovation Workshop; The Graduate Institute, Geneva; CIRCLE, Lund University; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• 2013: NBER “The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy” Conference; 2nd Lisbon Workshop on Economics, Statistics and Econometrics of Education
• 2012: CERGE-EI, Prague; NBER “The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy” Pre-Conference; NBER High-Skill Immigration Conference; 5th BRICK Workshop “The Organization, Economics and Policy of Scientific Research”; Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; Indian National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies; Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
• 2011 and earlier: NBER Summer Institute, Innovation Policy and the Economy; Harvard University-AFD-World Bank “Migration and Development” Conference; Harvard Law School, “The Rise of Nanotechnology” Conference; Northwestern University, Kellogg; Stockholm School of Economics, SITE; Georgia Tech, School of Management; HBS Science-Based Business Initiative Seminar; Russian Academy of Sciences “Russian-American Links” Conference; European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Annual Conference; Consortium for Competitiveness and Cooperation (CCC) Doctoral Colloquium; Academy of Management Meetings; UCLA “Migration, Trafficking and Regional Integration” Workshop; Harvard-Manchester Summer Immigration Workshop; IZA-EBRD Conference, “Labor Market Dynamics, the Role of Institutions and Internal Labor Markets in Transition and Emerging Market Economies”, Bologna

Ad Hoc Referee:

• American Economic Review, American Economic Review: Insights; Demography, Eastern European Economics, Economics of Education Review, Economics of Transition, Feminist Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Management Studies, Labour Economics, Management Science, National Science Foundation, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics & Statistics, Research Policy

Service to the Profession:

• 2022 – : Board Member, AEA Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP)
• 2021: Scientific Committee Member, International Conference “Rethinking Gender: Economic and Social Costs of Gender Inequality,” Kyiv School of Economics
• 2018 – 2021: Scientific Committee Member, “Workshop Series on Migration, Globalization and the Knowledge Economy”
• 2017 –2019: Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) Executive Committee
• 2017 –2018: Co-Organizer, NBER-NSF-Kauffman Foundation Conference on The Role of Immigrants and Foreign Students in Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

University Service:

• 2022 – : Director, Computational Social Science Institute (CSSI)
• 2018 –2021: Associate Director, Computational Social Science Institute (CSSI)
• Spring 2021: Member, Chancellor's Flexible Learning Task Force Workload and Support Subgroup
• 2019–2020, Fall 2020: Member, SBS Dean Search Committee
• 2017–2018: Senator, Faculty Senate
• 2016–2018: Member, Computational Social Science Institute (CSSI) Steering Committee

College Service:

• 2017 –: Member, CSBS committee on Data Analytics Master’s Program
• Spring 2021: Member, CSBS Futures Task Force
• 2016: Member, CSBS Social Science Matters Immigration Theme Planning Committee

Departmental Service:

• 2020–: Executive Committee
• 2016–: (Co-)Organizer, Applied Microeconomics Workshop
• 2015–2016, 2019-2020: Member, Faculty Search Committee
• 2018–2019: Member, Graduate Program Committee
• 2015–2018: Member, IT Committee
• 2015–2016: Member, UMass Cooperative Enterprise Collaborative (UMACEC)

• English (native), Bengali (fluent), German (fluent), Russian (fluent), Ukrainian (proficient)