The path that led me to research in economics

As you grow older, the monotonous questions that people ask you tend to change. Earlier, people would ask me, “What do you study?” But now, I’ve reached the stage where they’ve taken to asking – What do you do for a living? Working as a research assistant in the field of economics is, to say the least, not what they expect. The obvious question that follows is “Why?” And the answer is not that straightforward.