$100,000
The effect of government cash assistance on household credit access and use
2016
Manasi Deshpande is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago Department of Economics. Her research areas are empirical public finance and labor economics, with a focus on the effects of social insurance and public assistance programs and their interaction with labor markets.
She holds a B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Funded Research
Authored by Manasi Deshpande
Policy
U.S. disability programs provide valuable benefits to low-income recipients across a range of health conditions (opens in a new tab)
Blog NOV 22, 2021
By: Manasi Deshpande
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement
Policy
The effects of disability programs on financial outcomes in the United States (opens in a new tab)
Blog MAR 26, 2019
By: Manasi Deshpande, Tal Gross
Household Economic Security
Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement
Manasi Deshpande’s Working Papers
Academic
Beyond Health: Non-Health Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers NOV 22, 2021
By: Manasi Deshpande, Lee M. Lockwood
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Academic
Disability and distress: The effect of disability programs on financial outcomes (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers MAR 26, 2019
By: Manasi Deshpande, Tal Gross, Yalun Su
Household Economic Security
Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement
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