Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Mausumi Das

Mausumi Das

Professor


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Mausumi Das joined the Department of Economics, Shiv Nadar University as a professor in July 2024. She has previously held faculty positions at the Delhi School of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the Institute of Economic Growth, and also held visiting faculty positions at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Delhi Centre, Ashoka University and the National Council of Applied Economic Research. She is a serving member of the Advisory Committee on National Accounts Statistics (ACNAS), Government of India. Mausumi received her Ph.D. from the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her area of specialisation is economic growth and macroeconomics of development. She has published research articles in top field journals such as the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of Economic Growth and the Journal of Development Economics. She is at present an Associate Editor of Economic Modelling and the Journal of Economic Asymmetries.

  • Ph.D. in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2000
  • MA in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 1993
  • B.Sc (Hon’s) in Economics, Presidency College, Calcutta University 199

  • Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi (2019 – present)
  • Associate Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi (2005 – 2019) 
  • Assistant Professor, Centre for Economic Studies & Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2004 – 2005)
  • Research Associate, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics (1999 – 2004)

Economic Growth, Macroeconomics of Development, and Macroeconomic Theory

  • Core Committee Member: Society for Economics Research in India (SERI): 2018 - present 
  • Advisor: Association for Mentoring & Inclusion in Economics (AMIE): 2021-present
  • Office Bearer/Council Member: Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics: 2012-2019

  • “Optimal Growth with Decreasing Marginal Impatience”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 27, 1881-1898, 2003.
  • “Mortality, Fertility and Child Labor”, (with Shankha Chakraborty), Economics Letters, 86, 273-287, 2005.
  • “Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality”, (with Shankha Chakraborty), Journal of Economic Growth, 10, 159-192, 2005.
  • “Persistent Inequality: An Explanation based on Limited Parental Altruism”, Journal of Development Economics, 84, 251-270, 2007.
  • “The Internal Dynamics of Indian Economic Growth” (with Pulapre Balakrishanan and M. Parameswaran), Journal of Asian Economics, 50, 46-61, 2017.
  • “Death and Capital” (with Shankha Chakraborty), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 25, 1472-1494, 2021.
  •  “Altruism and Occupation under Survival Uncertainty” (with Shankha Chakraborty), Indian Economic Review, 58, 149-162, 2023.

  • “Inter-linkage Between Credit and Housing Prices in India: Some Preliminary Findings” (with Priti Mendiratta Arora and Ananya Ghosh Dastidar), in Manipadma Datta, Ritika Mahajan and Montu Bose (ed.), Business, Economics and Sustainable Development: The Emerging Issues, Bloomsbury, 2020.
  • “The Long Shadow of Epidemics” (with Shankha Chakraborty), in Rajib Bhattacharyya, Ananya Ghosh Dastidar and Soumyen Sikdar (ed.) The Covid-19 Pandemic, India and the World: Economic and Social Policy Perspectives, Routledge, 2021.  
  • “Trust and Public Policy: Lessons from the Pandemic” (with Ajit Mishra), in Indrani Gupta and Mausumi Das (ed.) Contextualizing the COVID Pandemic in India – A Development Perspective, Springer, 2023

Invited Lectures

  • Special Lecture: Annual Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, December, 2022
  • Valedictory Address: International Seminar in the Honour of Professor Soumyen Sikdar, University of Calcutta, July 2023

Conference Presentations

  • 18th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute - 2023
  • 19th World Congress of the International Economic Association, Bali, Indonesia (virtual) - 2021
  • International Conference on International Trade and Open Economy Macroeconomics, Eastern Regional Centre, ICSSR, Kolkata - 2019
  • 3rd Annual Economics Conference, Ashoka University - 2019 
  • 18th Annual Conference of the Society for Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan - 2018
  • CAGE Conference on “Public Economics and Development”, University of Warwick, UK - 2017

  • “Noble laureate Paul Romer’s contribution to endogenous growth theory”, Ideas for India, October 24, 2018. 
  • “Growth in India: Narratives and Evidence” (with Pulapre Balakrishnan and M. Parameswaran), Ideas for India, April 15, 2021.
  • “The Long Shadow of the 2020 Delhi Riots” (with Oindrila De and Zoya Khan), Op-ed, Indian Express, March 17, 2022.

  • Member: Advisory Committee on National Accounts Statistics (ACNAS), Government of India.  2024 - present

  • Associate Editor: Economic Modelling (Elsevier): 2020-present 
  • Associate Editor: Journal of Economic Asymmetries (Elsevier) : 2021-present
  • Editorial Board: Journal of Asian Economics (Elsevier): 2017-present
  • Editorial Board: Indian Economic Review (Springer): 2021- present
  • Editorial Board: Revue Congo Challenge (Congo Challenge Review): 2023 - present