Kalyani is a PhD student at the University of California, Davis, specializing in behavioral & experimental economics. Primarily, she uses experiments to understand the behavioral mechanisms driving gender disparities in the labor market. In her job market paper, Kalyani finds that gender-stereotypical perceptions cause men to use stronger adjectives to describe their skills in the labor market, compared to equally-performing women. In another chapter of her dissertation, Kalyani finds that women update their beliefs differently than men about others' contribution to a public good, which explains why women are more likely to perform non-promotable public service tasks in the workplace.