Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Arka Roy Chaudhuri
Assistant Professor
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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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
- Life in Pairs: Estimating the Impact of Twin’s Sex on Child Survival in India, (with Shampa Bhattacharjee); Economics Letters; 242, 2024.
- Mandated Political Reservations and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India (with Shampa Bhattacharjee); European Journal of Political Economy; 85, 2024.
- 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.
- Religion in the labor market: evidence from India, (with Shampa Bhattacharjee); Applied Economics; 2022, p.1-36.
- Measuring Performance: Ranking State Success Over Two Decades in India, (with Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon and Saattvic); Journal of Asian Economics; 83, 101550, 2022.
- 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.
- What Will Improve Governance? (with Ashok Kotwal); India Review; 14(1), 2015, p.43-57.
- Impact of Biometric Identification-based transfers (with E. Somanathan); Economic and Political Weekly; 46(21), 2011, p.77-80.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Evolving Occupations or Occupation-Status? Employment Polarization in the Context of Developing Countries, (with Tridip Ray and Sujaya Sircar).
- What Can(not) Explain the Gap? Evidence and Decomposition of Gendered Stream Choice in India, (with Tridip Ray and Komal Sahai).
- Electoral Cycle in Road Building: Evidence from India (with Ahana Basistha and Amrita Dhillon).
- The Elusive Promise of Work (with Farzana Afridi and Amrita Dhillon), Indian Express, October 7, 2020.
- 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.
- The Perplexing Case of Gujarat (with Ashok Kotwal), Ideas for India, May 4, 2014.
- Gujarat's Growth for Growth's sake? (with Ashok Kotwal), Indian Express, April 3, 2014.
- Why is Poverty Declining so Slowly in India? (with Ashok Kotwal), Ideas for India, reprinted in Mint, February 25, 2013.
- Accountability and Political Economy, GI-ACE workshop, 2021.
- Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting, Banff, Canada, 2019, South Asian University, 2019.
- New Directions in Economic Theory and Empirical Economics, IIM, Calcutta, 2018.
- 13th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, ISI, Delhi, 2017 Delhi School of Economics, 2016.
- Second Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Research in India (SERI), IGIDR, Mumbai, 2016.
- Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, 2016.
- 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).