{"id":3976,"date":"2020-11-12T23:09:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T05:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/?post_type=pt_people&p=3976"},"modified":"2023-03-05T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T22:00:20","slug":"anjali-adukia","status":"publish","type":"pt_people","link":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/people\/mentor-anjali-adukia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anjali Adukia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anjali Adukia<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and the College. In her work, she is interested in understanding how to reduce inequalities such that children from historically disadvantaged backgrounds have equal opportunities to fully develop their potential.\u00a0 Her research is focused on understanding factors that motivate and shape behavior, preferences, attitudes, and educational decision-making, with a particular focus on early-life influences.\u00a0 She examines how the provision of basic needs\u2014such as safety,\u00a0health, justice, and representation\u2014can increase school participation and improve child outcomes in developing contexts.<\/p>\n

Adukia completed her doctoral degree at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, with an academic focus on the economics of education. Her work has been funded from organizations such as the William T. Grant Foundation, the National Academy of Education, and the Spencer Foundation.\u00a0 Her dissertation won awards from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), and the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). Adukia received recognition for her teaching from the University of Chicago Feminist Forum.\u00a0 She completed her masters of education degrees in international education policy and higher education (administration, planning, and social policy) from Harvard University and her bachelor of science degree in molecular and integrative physiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\u00a0 She is a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a faculty affiliate of the University of Chicago Education Lab and Crime Lab.\u00a0 She is on the editorial board of Education Finance and Policy.\u00a0 She was formerly a board member of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network \u2013 San Francisco Bay Area. She continues to work with non-governmental organizations internationally, such as UNICEF and Manav Sadhna in Gujarat, India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3977,"template":"","people_type":[2420],"yst_prominent_words":[1620,212,1621,895,1618,1616,1617,317,1128,1124,1619,1202,1229,687,157,680,264,242,186,1159],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pt_people\/3976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pt_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pt_people"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pt_people\/3976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9441,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pt_people\/3976\/revisions\/9441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people_type?post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datascience.uchicago.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}