Akansha Gupta is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the Delhi School of Economics. Her research interests lie in applied microeconomics, with a focus on education, labor, migration, and economic history. She is currently working on a paper that investigates the long-run impact of Partition of India, with a particular focus on how the influx of literate refugees influenced the economic outcomes of the regions that received them. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, University of Delhi.