Amrita Dhillon is a professor of Economics, based at King's College London. Her recent research has been in political economy and development economics. In the past she has worked in social choice theory, strategic voting, turnout, and on information economics and mechanism design in a wide variety of contexts from corporate governance to social networks and development economics. Most recently her work has been focused on the problem of low female labour participation in India and on activism using RCTs and survey experiments. She received a grant from the Global Integrity Anti corruption (GI-ACE) initiative as PI for a period of three years which was focused on issues of governance and accountability in top down audits vs community monitoring in India.
She has been Associate Editor of "Social Choice and Welfare" over the period 2008-2013, and is currently Associate Editor, International Tax and Public Finance (2016-2023 ) and Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economic Theory (2004- current), Senior Editor of Oxford Open Economics. In the past she has been a council member of the Royal Economic Society, UK and a member of the academic advisory panel for the Dept of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the UK. She has published in various economics journals such as Social Choice and Welfare, the Journal of Economic Theory, Econometrica, the Journal of Public Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Development Economics etc