Saloni Gupta

Welcome to my webpage. I am an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Education in the Department of Education at Brown University, beginning July 1, 2025. For the 2024–25 academic year, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford King Center on Global Development.

My work sits at the intersection of education, innovation, and economic development, analyzing how educational investments translate into improved economic opportunity. I explore how education systems can cultivate innovation, creativity, and adaptive problem-solving—the higher-order skills that drive economic opportunity in a dynamic labor market. I investigate how promising new technologies, teaching models, and institutional designs spread through education systems, and what determines whether educational innovations successfully scale.

I am a visiting researcher at Aalto University a research collaborator with the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago, and an invited researcher at the J-PAL's Science for Progress Initiative.

I completed my Ph.D. in Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, in 2024, and was awarded the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship 2023. 

Find my latest CV here. You can email me at salonig-at-stanford-dot-edu

Primary Fields: Economics and Education, Labor Economics

Secondary Fields: Economics of Innovation