Narges Darvish

Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance

Bio

Narges Darvish is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance. She previously served as a Senior Research Fellow and Lead Behavioural Scientist at the Pop-U.P. Lab within the Centre for Social and Behaviour Change at Ashoka University. Her primary research interests lie in Behavioural and Experimental Economics, focusing on how behavioural parameters shape diverse human behaviours such as savings, tax evasion, and attitudes toward climate change. Narges holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Leicester and brings over a decade of teaching experience from the University of Leicester and Alzahra University.

Research Interests

  • Experimental Economics
  • Behavioural Economics
  • Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty
  • Health Economics
  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of Leicester, UK
  • M.Sc. in Economics, University of Leicester, UK
  • B.Sc. in Theoretical Economics, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Iran
  • Precautionary savings and loss aversion: Theory and Evidence. Joint with Dhami, S. and Georgalos, K.
  • Climate Change Risk, and Human Behavior: Theory and Evidence. Joint with Dhami, S. and Mamidi, P.
  • When Linda meets Preeti: The Validation of Behavioral Biases in India. Joint with Owsley, N. and Laumas, A.
  • Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. Joint with Balazs Aczel and 500+ (Forthcoming in Nature)
  • Using eye-tracking to examine strategies for evaluating compound lotteries. Joint with Shahidhara, S.
  • Very low probabilities in the loss domain. The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 2017.
  • How do people reduce compound lotteries? Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018.
  • Public Preference for Financing Preventive Vaccines in Health Shocks: The Case of COVID-19 Vaccines in a Middle-Income Country. PharmacoEconomics-Open, 2024. Join with Moradi, N., Zarei, L., Meshkani, Z., Zanganeh, M., Babapour, J., & Lankarani, K. B.
  • Loss aversion and Tax evasion: Theory and Evidence. Forthcoming in Arthaniti-Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, 2024. Joint with Dhami, S. and Mamidi, P.
  • Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies: Econometrics, Microeconomics
  • Alzahra University: Advanced Microeconomics, Microeconomics, Managerial Economics, Welfare Economics, Principles of Economics, Mathematics 1 & 2, Macroeconomics, Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Mathematics and Statistics for MBA, Econometrics, Financial Econometrics.
  • University of Leicester: Linear Algebra and Optimization for Economists, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Calculus for Economists.
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Department of Economics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
  • Iranian National Elites Foundation grant for a postdoc and establishing Experimental Laboratory, Tehran, Iran.