Rahul Chakraborty

Faculty at School of Management and Entrepreneurship

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi

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July 2022 – January 2025: Associate Fellow, Transport and Urban Governance Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
January 2019 – July 2022: Research Fellow, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP)
February 2017 – December 2018: Project Associate, NIPFP
August 2010 – February 2011: Junior Project Associate, NIPFP

Transportation research, experimental economics, environmental economics, health economics, empirical law and economics

Awarded ‘TERI Roll of Honour’ for 2023-24 for contribution to TERI’s academic excellence for the year

The Econometric Society (since January 2022), Economic Science Association (since April 2024)

Chakraborty, R., & Prakash, S. (2024). Roadblocks to Indian Railways’ ‘Mission 3000 MT’. Economic and Political Weekly, 59(37), 27-34.
Chakraborty, R., & Chakravarty, S. (2023). Factors affecting acceptance of electric two-wheelers in India: A discrete choice survey. Transport Policy, 132, 27-41.
Chakraborty, R. (2015). Deterrent effect of police on violent and property crimes: An empirical investigation. Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, 11(1-2), 2012 (published in 2015), pp 48-77.

Anand, M. K., & Chakraborty, R. (2020). Theory of multi-level government. In IGNOU, Block 7, Unit 18, MEC-106 Public Economics, New Delhi, India: Indira Gandhi National Open University.
Chakraborty, R., Chakraborty, S., & Kundu, R. P. (2016). Network of legal citations: An analysis of some Supreme Court decisions on land acquisition in India. In Banerjee, S., Mukherjee, V., & Halder, S. K. (Eds.), Understanding development: An Indian perspective on legal and economic policy (pp. 25-35). New Delhi, India: Springer.

Anand, M. K., & Chakraborty, R. (2019). Public expenditure on old-age income support in India: Largesse for a few, illusory for most (NIPFP Working Paper Series No. 253).

TERI. (2024). Roadmap for India’s energy transition in the transport sector. New Delhi: TERI. https://teriin.org/project/roadmap-indias-energy-transition-transport-sector
TERI. (2024). Baseline study for non-urban road transport. New Delhi: TERI. https://www.teriin.org/project/baseline-study-non-urban-road-transport
TERI. (2023). Strategies to increase railway’s share in freight in India. New Delhi: TERI. https://www.teriin.org/project/strategies-increase-railways-share-freight-transportation

Presented the findings of the report titled “Roadmap for India’s energy transition in the transport sector” at the ET Infra Leadership Summit 2024 (December) as an invited speaker, at the Hyatt Regency, New Delhi.
Delivered an invited lecture titled “Behavioural and experimental economics in addressing urban issues” at the School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal on September 20 (2024), organized by Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
Delivered an invited lecture titled “Behavioural economics in transportation research” at the School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal on November 28 (2023), organized by Department of Urban and Regional Planning.

Presented a paper titled “Acceptance of energy efficient vehicles among Indian consumers: A case study of the four-wheeler market” in the Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2023.
Presented a paper titled “Factors affecting acceptance of electric two-wheelers in India: A stated preference survey” in the Winter School, organized by Delhi School of Economics and the Econometric Society, 2021.
Presented a paper titled “Acceptance of energy efficient vehicles in India: A stated choice experiment” in the 4^th International Graduate Seminar on Quality of Living in Informal Settlements, organized by the School of Public Policy and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, 2021.
Presented a paper titled “Deterrence effect of size of police force on violent and property crimes: An empirical investigation” in the Centenary Research Scholars’ Workshop (International), organized by the Department of Economics, University of Calcutta, 2014.

Chakraborty, R., Gupta, S., & Prakash, S. (2024, August 10). Decarbonizing freight transport in India: Railways can play a very crucial role. Financial Express.
Chakraborty, R., & Prakash, S. (2023, September 21). Taming the behemoth: The need for a regulator for Indian Railways. Financial Express.
Chakraborty, R., & Prakash, S. (2023, September 13). Rail freight policy needs overhaul: A competitive, market-driven pricing policy will help the Railways reclaim lost market share. The Hindu Businessline.
Anand, M., & Chakraborty, R. (2022, March 22). Rationality over sentiment: India’s social security problem needs more than patchwork. Financial Express.

NITI Aayog Inter-ministerial Working Group on Transport (member of the team from TERI, till January 2025)
Helped Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) develop the methodology for CO₂ emission abatement per passenger-km, under the “CarbonLite Metro Travel Initiative” rolled-out in 2023 (during the tenure with TERI)

Journal of Cleaner Production, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Qeios

Organized and event (during the tenure with TERI) titled “India’s energy transition in the transport sector: Integrating transport with NDC” at India Habitat Centre and presented the key findings of the report titled “Roadmap for India’s energy transition in the transport sector”.
Organized a thematic track (during the tenure with TERI) titled “Towards net-zero emission target: Electric vehicles in freight” as part of the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) 2023, also delivered the context setting presentation.