Sonal Barve

Biography

Sonal is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research uses experimental and applied methods to investigate how people make decisions under cognitive limitations, uncertainty, and imperfect knowledge, and how these shape institutional effectiveness and social welfare.

Before her PhD program, she worked at the Reserve Bank of India in Mumbai, focusing on credit culture and information asymmetries among lenders. She holds a Bachelor’s in Electronics and Communication Engineering from PICT, University of Pune, and a Master’s in Environmental Economics from the Madras School of Economics, India, where she researched climate change and weather impacts on Indian agriculture and farmer suicides. In her spare time, she enjoys reading and discussing history, and watching comedy.

Job Market Paper Title

"Failures in Marginal Reasoning under Nonlinear Incentives"

Abstract

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JEL Codes: D03; H21; C91