Vansh Gupta

Vansh Gupta

MIT | Innovation Economics

Research Experience

My research interests include innovation, urban, and development economics. I am currently working on projects that explore methods in geneoeconomics and neuroeconomics. Below you can find my research projects and collaborations.

Network Alignment

Affiliations

A living ecosystem of labs, institutes, and firms that shape my research orbit across MIT, Cornell, the Innovation Growth Lab, and industry collaborators.

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Current Focus

MIT Sloan

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Current Focus

Innovation Growth Lab

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Past Impact

Cornell University

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Past Impact

Charles River Associates

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Research Focus Areas

Over time, I have explored methods in many fields of economics. Presently, I am working to apply this experience to discover insights about how innovation is generated, where we get our ideas from, and how our environment shapes our ideas.

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Research Projects

Revise and Resubmit

Better Keep the Twenty Dollars: Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source

2026 Research Project Revise and Resubmit innovation economics open source software

With co-authors Annamaria Conti, Jorge Guzman, & Maria Roche.

Revision Requested at Management Science, 2026

This paper seeks to understand the effects of the introduction of GitHub Sponsorships on digital innovation.

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Inactive Projects

Research Assistance

Treatment Effects in Managerial Strategies

2022 Research Assistance strategy causal inference

Under the guidance of Jorge Guzman.

Social Science Research Network (Working Paper), 2022

This paper seeks to formalize the treatment effects of strategic choices under the Rubin Causal Model.