Kartik Vira

Hello! I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics at MIT. I research topics in labor economics, with a particular focus on topics at the intersections with behavioral economics and the economics of education. My advisors at MIT are Frank Schilbach, Daron Acemoglu, and Parag Pathak.

I will be joining the Institute for Fiscal Studies as a Research Economist in October 2026. 

Prior to my PhD, I worked as a Predoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research. I graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2018 with a BA in Economics, with first-class honours.

Contact: kvira@mit.edu