Govind Gupta

Govind is a research associate at J-PAL, working on an experimental study about maternity career-breaks. After working as a researcher assisting policymaking at the Parliament of India and then as a management-consultant advising implementation for a state-government, he aspires to pursue research informing policy-innovations. Govind’s experience in the administrative machinery and field exposed him to critical gaps. He learnt how intervention design needs to link well with implementation and public uptake. Finding mere intuition about solutions to be limiting, he became convinced of engaging with issues in development through the rigour of academia. Using toolkits of economics, he is enthused about research which explore binding constraints, incentives, and their aggregation. Govind received his baccalaureate from Hansraj College, Delhi University.