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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 LSE, 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 LSE 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.

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