Nabanita Datta Gupta is Professor at Department of Economics and Business Economics at Aarhus University. She has served on the chairmanship of the Danish Economic Council (2020-2023). She is also a past member of the Danish Social Science Research council (2007-2012) and past executive committee member of the European Association of Labour Economists. She holds a PhD in Labor Economics from Cornell University (1992).

Nabanita Datta Gupta researches gender wage differentials, discrimination, childcare, education, retirement & pension systems, health economics, environmental economics and economic development. Her articles have appeared in American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Public Economics, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Energy Economics, World Development, Health Economics & others.

Nabanita Datta Gupta teaches Economic History (bachelor level, Economics department) and Public Management (bachelor level, Political Science department)

Current international research collaborations involve researchers from BIB-Federal Institute for Population Research, Cambridge University, Charles University, CERGE-EI, IIM-Bangalore, Harvard Medical School & Harvard University, IZA Berlin, LUISS University, Korea Women's Development Institute, Sciences Po, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Siena, Virginia Commonwealth University, Washington and Lee University.  

Nabanita Datta Gupta contributes to the evaluation of grant applications for several research councils, including the DFF in Denmark, RCN in Norway, Swedish Research Council & FORTE in Sweden, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, as well as occasionally for the NSF and ERC.