Manasi Deshpande is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago Department of Economics. From 2015-2016, she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow for NBER and and the Becker Friedman Institute. Her research areas are empirical public finance and labor economics, with a focus on the effects of social insurance and public assistance programs and their interaction with labor markets. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology in...