Shreya Chandra

I am a PhD candidate at the Agricultural and Resource Economics department at University of California, Berkeley. I study topics related to firms and labor markets, digitization and microfinance in developing countries. Previously, I worked as a research assistant at Evidence for Policy Design India, MIT Sloan and Harvard Business School. I completed my Bachelors in Economics (Honors) from Delhi University, India and Masters in Development Economics from the Yale IDE program. I am also a 200 hour certified yoga teacher!

I am on the 2026-27 job market.

Research

Job Market Paper

Irregular Labor Supply and Coordination in the Workplace: Experimental Evidence from India

Draft coming soon.

Previously circulated as “Flexible Work Arrangements and Firm Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from India”.

IGC blog post

Work in Progress

Input Side Constraints to Quality Upgrading among Small Enterprises

(with Xavier Giné and Zixu Chen)

Funding received, pre-piloting stage.

Withdrawal Fees and Digital Financial Engagement in Tanzania

(with Xavier Giné, Francis Annan, and William Blackmon)

Data collection complete, analysis ongoing.

Can Flexible Microcredit Substitute For Informal Finance? Experimental Evidence from Market Vendors in South India

(with Natalia Rigol and Benjamin Roth)

Data collection complete, analysis ongoing.

Policy Writing

Understanding Digital Financial Services Consumers in Tanzania

Tanzania Digital Financial Resilience Initiative, Innovations for Poverty Action.

Safety Nets and the Pandemic: The State of Social Benefit Payments during COVID-19 in Bangladesh

Innovations for Poverty Action.

Teaching