Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Arka Roy Chaudhuri

Arka Roy Chaudhuri

Associate Professor

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


Contact Information

Development Economics and Political Economy

To learn more about my work, please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/arkaecon/

2015, Ph.D., Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

2008, Master of Science in Quantitative Economics Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi

2006, B.Sc. (Hons), Economics Presidency College, Kolkata

2015-2017 - Lecturer-cum-Post Doctoral Fellow, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi

  1. Life in Pairs: Estimating the Impact of Twin’s Sex on Child Survival in India, (with Shampa Bhattacharjee); Economics Letters; 242, 2024. 
  2. Mandated Political Reservations and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India (with Shampa Bhattacharjee); European Journal of Political Economy; 85, 2024.
  3. Gender peer effects in high schools: Evidence from India, (with Prerna Dewan, Tridip Ray and Kirti Tater); Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; 220, 2024, p.470-494. 
  4. Religion in the labor market: evidence from India, (with Shampa Bhattacharjee); Applied Economics; 2022, p.1-36.
  5. Measuring Performance: Ranking State Success Over Two Decades in India, (with Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon and Saattvic); Journal of Asian Economics; 83, 101550, 2022.
  6. Whose Education Matters? An Analysis of Inter-Caste Marriages in India, (with Tridip Ray and Komal Sahai); Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; 176, 2020, p.619-633.
  7. What Will Improve Governance? (with Ashok Kotwal); India Review; 14(1), 2015, p.43-57.
  8. Impact of Biometric Identification-based transfers (with E. Somanathan); Economic and Political Weekly; 46(21), 2011, p.77-80.

  1. Centralised versus decentralised monitoring in developing countries: A survey of recent research” (with Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon and Dashleen Kaur); Decentralised Governance: Crafting Effective Democracies Around the World; edited by Jean-Paul Faguet and Sarmistha Pal; LSE Press, 2023, p.235-269
  2. Why is Poverty Declining So Slowly in India? (with Ashok Kotwal); Development in India: Micro and Macro Perspectives; edited by S. Mahendra Dev, P. G. Babu, K. V. Ramaswamy, Sudhakara B. Reddy, Rajendra R. Vaidya; Springer 2015, p.83-99.
  3. Trade Reforms and Gender Wage Differentials in India; Gender Equality Rights and Trade Regimes: Coordinating Compliance; edited by Pitman B. Potter and Heather Gibb; with Erika Cedillo; The North South Institute and Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution Research, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia 2012; p.47-72.

  1. Evolving Occupations or Occupation-Status? Employment Polarization in the Context of Developing Countries, (with Tridip Ray and Sujaya Sircar).
  2. What Can(not) Explain the Gap? Evidence and Decomposition of Gendered Stream Choice in India, (with Tridip Ray and Komal Sahai).
  3. Electoral Cycle in Road Building: Evidence from India (with Ahana Basistha and Amrita Dhillon).

  1. The Elusive Promise of Work (with Farzana Afridi and Amrita Dhillon), Indian Express, October 7, 2020.
  2. Whose Education Matters? An Analysis of Inter-Caste Marriages in India (with Tridip Ray and Komal Sahai), Ideas for India, November 30, 2018, Republished in The Print.
  3. The Perplexing Case of Gujarat (with Ashok Kotwal), Ideas for India, May 4, 2014.
  4. Gujarat's Growth for Growth's sake? (with Ashok Kotwal), Indian Express, April 3, 2014.
  5. Why is Poverty Declining so Slowly in India? (with Ashok Kotwal), Ideas for India, reprinted in Mint, February 25, 2013.

  1. Accountability and Political Economy, GI-ACE workshop, 2021.
  2. Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting, Banff, Canada, 2019, South Asian University, 2019.
  3. New Directions in Economic Theory and Empirical Economics, IIM, Calcutta, 2018.
  4. 13th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, ISI, Delhi, 2017 Delhi School of Economics, 2016.
  5. Second Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Research in India (SERI), IGIDR, Mumbai, 2016.
  6. Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, 2016.
  7. 11th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, ISI, Delhi, 2015.

  • Planning and Policy Research Unit (PPRU) research grant, Caste Peer Effects on Student Performance: Evidence from Indian schools, 2021, INR 400,400, (Co-Principal Investigator).
  • International Growth Centre (IGC) research grant, Social Identity, Taste Bias and Under Provisioning of Public Goods, 2019, GBP 41,542, (Co-Principal Investigator).
  • Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore Seed Grant, Social Identity, Taste Bias and Under Provisioning of Public Goods, 2018, INR 500,000, (Co-Principal Investigator) .
  • Planning and Policy Research Unit (PPRU) research grant, Role Model Effects in Gender Based Stream Choice, 2018, INR 399,300, (Co-Principal Investigator).
  • Planning and Policy Research Unit (PPRU) research grant, Changing Structure of the Labour Market in India: Job Polarization and Informalization, 2018, INR 401,500 (Co-Principal Investigator).
  • Planning and Policy Research Unit (PPRU) research grant, Public Good Provision and Political Competition, 2017, INR 721,600 (Co-Principal Investigator).
  • Planning and Policy Research Unit (PPRU) research grant, Power Sharing across Ethnic Groups in India, 2016, INR 631,950, (Principal Investigator).
  • Planning and Policy Research Unit (PPRU) research grant, Persistence of Caste System in India: The Practise of Inter-Caste Marriage in India, 2016, INR 440,000, (Co-Principal Investigator).