Soham Sahoo is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He is currently also a Visiting Fellow at International Inequalities Institute – London School of Economics and Political Science and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn. His research interest is broadly in development economics, with a focus on education, labour, and political economy. Soham holds a PhD in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. Before joining IIM Bangalore, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Economics, University of Goettingen, Germany. He has also held visiting positions at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies – University of Goettingen, and Institute for Employment Research – University of Warwick.