Allen Mathew

Allen is a Research Associate on the ‘Breadwinning Gender Norms’ Project in Bihar. Allen graduated in 2023 from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. During his undergraduate study, he was actively involved in various policy-oriented student bodies as well as research initiatives, having administered questionnaires to high school children to understand determinants of student aspirations, and developed & administered surveys, in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture, Karnal, to farmers in the Karnal District of Haryana to better understand the prevalence of traditional farming organic farming.

His interests lie in development economics and microeconomic modelling, and has an outlook on economics being a field with ‘the rigour of science and the nuance of a social science’.