Akhila Kovvuri

Graduate Student Research Funding | 2023 - 2024 Academic Year

Interdependence in Female Labor Supply: Role of Numbers and Composition

This study investigates the influence of interdependence and social dynamics on female labor force participation in India, which is extremely low at 20%. Specifically, we examine how number and composition of other women working in one’s village enters a woman’s labor supply function or decision making about taking up work. This project will be conducted in collaboration with a government program aiming to recruit over 3000 individuals to increase diversity, by gender and socio-economic status, of AI data labeling.

Akhila Kovvuri, Department of Economics

Akhila Kovvuri is a PhD candidate in economics at Stanford University. Her areas of interest are development economics, political economy, and labor economics. She is particularly interested in gender, religion, and how such identities and social norms interact with institutions and the labor market. Prior to coming to Stanford, Kovvuri worked as a research analyst at Northwestern University and on the field in India and Ghana. She holds a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.

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