Tanya Rajan is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Chicago. Tanya is on the 2024-25 academic job market.
Tanya's job market paper studies worker mobility between formal and informal sector jobs in the garment industry in Bangladesh.
More broadly, Tanya's research focuses on topics at the intersection of labour, health, and development economics. Tanya studies how people and households make decisions over work and health in the face of market frictions.