Soumitra Shukla

I am a PhD Candidate (Economics) at Yale. My fields are Labor Economics (primary field), Economics of Education and Applied Microecononmics. I work primarily with Joe Altonji, Costas Meghir and John Eric Humphries.

I passed my written comprehensive examinations in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics in the summer of 2016. I passed my oral comprehensive examinations in Industrial Organization and Labor Economics (with Distinction) in the summer of 2017. 

I am currently working on two separate projects with a top US MBA program and a premier post-secondary institution to improve the efficacy of their placement process for summer internships and full-time jobs. In the fall of 2017, I was awarded a research grant by the Cowles Foundation Structural Microeconomics Program to continue working on these two projects. 

Another research project with Costas Meghir, Jean-Marc Robin and Rafael Dix-Carneiro, explores informality and investment in developing countries.

I enjoy teaching and have served as a teaching fellow (TF) for advanced undergraduate and graduate econometrics courses. In the fall of 2018, I was awarded The Raymond Powell Teaching Prize. The Raymond Powell Prize is annually awarded to two graduate students and is based on their performance as teaching assistants in economics courses. Teaching evaluations from students are the most critical factor in determining the winners.

In May 2019, I was awarded the Carl Arvid Anderson Fellowship for my work involving the study of job placement processes for summer internships and full-time jobs. The fellowship, awarded annually to only 4-5 graduate students in the economics program, relieves recipients from teaching duties for a semester and allows them to devote their energies towards dissertation research.