Dashleen Kaur

I’m a PhD candidate in Economics at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia.

My research focuses on education, gender, and development, using administrative data and field experiments. In my job market paper, with Alejandra Quintana, we study what happens to students when their single-sex schools in Colombia become coeducational. We follow students enrolled before the change and find that girls’ test scores and college entry remain unchanged, but they become less likely to study STEM and more likely to choose humanities and the arts. I expect to graduate in summer 2027.

Outside of research, I'm usually on a sunny walk with my dog Meera, drinking matcha, or at the pottery wheel.

I am on the 2026–27 job market.