Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/lata-gangadharan/home
Lata Gangadharan is a Professor of Economics and Joe Isaac Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University. She is an experimental and behavioural economist. A key focus of her research has been on developing novel experimental methods to study economic and social institutions. Her recent research focuses on incentives and preferences and addresses the following topics: peer sanctioning to mitigate the effect of social and environmental dilemmas, propensity for prosocial and antisocial behaviour, incentives for compliance and auditing, and gender and social identity. Her research has been published in several general interest and field journals, such as, Science, Nature Communications, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Experimental Economics and Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization. She currently serves as a Co-Editor at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, an Associate Editor at Management Science and the Journal of Economic Psychology, is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and is President-Elect of the Economic Science Association.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Economic Experiments
- Environment and Sustainability
- Social Preferences
- Development
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Economics of Biased Beliefs: Implications for Diversity Gaps in Workplaces
Erkal, N., Gangadharan, L. & Koh, B. H.
1/10/21 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
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RACE for 2030: Reliable Affordable Clean Energy for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre (RACE for 2030 CRC)
Beins, D., Liebman, A., Bahrani, B., Leroux, A., Kraal, D., Razzaghi, R., Strengers, Y., Goodwin, S., Pink, S., Rudolph, C., Raven, R., Bergmeir, C., Saunderson, J., Leslie, G., Gangadharan, L., Islam, A., Wang, L. C., Ward, M., Xiao, E., Wallace, M., Tack, G., Stuckey, P., Li, Y., Pan, S., de Nijs, F., Buckingham, E., Denis-Ryan, A., Ens, B., Dargaville, R., Chang, X., Yu, J., White, S., Zlatanov, N., Hyndman, R., Panagiotelis, A. & Athanasopoulos, G.
1/07/20 → 30/06/31
Project: Research
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Informal sanctions and bad social norms
Gangadharan, L., Handfield, T., Thrasher, J. & Skarbek, D.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University, King's College London
1/01/17 → 30/06/24
Project: Research
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SOciO-eConomiC failurE and aSpiration biaseS
Zelinsky, T., Gangadharan, L. & Gorard, S.
1/03/21 → 18/10/22
Project: Research
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Advice and its Impact on Social Learning in Developing Countries
Villeval, M. C., Maitra, P., Gangadharan, L. & Vecci, J.
15/01/21 → 15/01/22
Project: Research
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Charitable giving and intermediation: a principal agent problem with hidden prices
Chlaß, N., Gangadharan, L. & Jones, K., Oct 2023, In: Oxford Economic Papers. 75, 4, p. 941-961 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Do women receive less blame than men? Attribution of outcomes in a prosocial setting
Erkal, N., Gangadharan, L. & Koh, B. H., Jun 2023, In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 210, p. 441-452 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Using willingness to pay to measure the strength of altruistic motives
Gangadharan, L., Grossman, P. J. & Xue, N., May 2023, In: Economics Letters. 226, 3 p., 111073.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
By chance or by choice? Biased attribution of others’ outcomes when social preferences matter
Erkal, N., Gangadharan, L. & Koh, B. H., 2022, In: Experimental Economics. 25, p. 413-443 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Gender, beliefs, and coordination with externalities
Cason, T. N., Gangadharan, L. & Grossman, P. J., Oct 2022, In: Journal of Public Economics. 214, 14 p., 104744.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)