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 Sanaya Mahajan

Sanaya Mahajan

Research Assistant

International Inequalities Institute

Languages
English, Hindi
Key Expertise
Public Economics, Income and Wealth Inequality, Policy Analysis

About me

Sanaya Mahajan is a Research Assistant at the International Inequalities Institute (III) at the ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ, working with Dr Arun Advani and Dr Andy Summers. Her research at the III involves tax policy analysis surrounding high income individuals, using administrative data. Previously, Sanaya holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the ½ûÂþÌìÌà and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Singapore Management University (SMU).

Expertise Details

Public Economics; Income and Wealth Inequality; Policy Analysis

Recent Publications

  • Trevisan, F., Vaughan, M. & Vromen, A. (2025). Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy. University of Michigan Press. 
  • Vaughan, M. & Schieferdecker, D. (2025), 'Seeing a New Type of Economic Inequality Discourse: Inequality as Spectacle in the “Billionaire Space Race”', International Journal of Communication, 19 (1), 348-369 
  • Vaughan, M., & Kerr, S. (2025). Visual representations of wealth inequality in political communication. Visual Communication.
  • Vaughan, M., Gruber, J. B., & Langer, A. I. (2025). The tension between connective action and platformisation: Disconnected action in the GameStop short squeeze. New Media & Society, 27(2), 632-654.