Anjali Adukia is an assistant professor at the
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and the director of the
MiiE Lab (Messages, Identity, and Inclusion in Education). In her work, she seeks to understand how children from all backgrounds can have opportunities to realize their potential. Adukia's work draws on large-scale data, often deriving data from previously unused and underused sources, including employing artificial intelligence (AI) methods to expand the tools and data used in social science.
Adukia has received an
NSF CAREER Award in economics (2024-2029), the
SREE Early Career Award (2023), the
William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award (2018-2023), the
NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018), and an
Institute of Education Sciences grant (2020-2022). Her doctoral thesis won best dissertation awards from
APPAM and
AEFP. Her research has received awards from Google and has been featured in media outlets such as
Scientific American,
The Economist,
The Wall Street Journal,
The Washington Post,
Education Week,
School Library Journal, and
NPR.
Adukia is a faculty research fellow at NBER in the
Economics of Education and
Children and Families groups, a research fellow at the
IZA Institute of Labor Economics, a non-resident fellow at the
Center for Global Development, and a faculty affiliate of the University of Chicago
Education Lab. She is on the editorial boards of
Education Finance and Policy,
Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, and
Journal of Social Computing (IEEE). She co-organizes the annual
AI in Social Sciences conference at The University of Chicago. She completed her doctoral degree at Harvard University, with a focus on the economics of education. She has a masters of education from Harvard University and a bachelor of science degree in molecular and integrative physiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
