Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Ashokankur Datta

Ashokankur Datta

Associate Professor

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


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Development Economics and Environmental Economics

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  • 2012, PhD, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
  • 2005, MA (Economics), University of Delhi.
  • 2003, BSc, University of Calcutta.

  • 2011-2012

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi

  • 2010-2011

Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru

  • Are gender norms systematic to caste institutions? Evidence from North Indian villages. (with Aparajita Dasgupta) Applied Economics Letters, 1–6, 2026.
  • Higher Temperatures and Household Nutrition: Evidence from India (with Amlan Dasgupta and Ridhima Gupta), Food Policy, 135, 2025.
  • Gendered Time Use and its Heterogeneities: The Role of Region, Religion and Caste (with Aparajita Dasgupta),  Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 7, (2024)
  • Religious Institutions and Gendered Time Use: Evidence from Ramadan Festivities in India (with Aparajita Dasgupta),  Journal of Population Economics, Volume 37, 2024.
  • Ashokankur Datta and E. Somanathan. Climate Policy and Innovation in the Absence of Commitment. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Volume 3. Number 4. p. 917-955. December 2016.
  • Ashokankur Datta. Incidence of Fuel Taxation in India, Energy Economics-Special Issue on Asian Energy, 32, 2010.

  • Ashokankur Datta and Gunnar Kohlin. Tenure and forest management in India: Impacts on equity and efficiency of Van Panchayats in Uttarakhand in Stein T. Holden, Keijiro Otsuka & Klaus Deininger edited Land Tenure Reforms in Asia and Africa: Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management. Palgrave Macmillan. 2013.
  • Ashokankur Datta. Are Fuel Taxes in India Regressive? In Thomas Sterner edited Fuel Taxes and the Poor:The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy. Resources for the Future Press. 2011.

  • 2018, Co-PI for Research Grant of around INR 1.2 million from Azim Premji University Research Grant Project for project titled 'Understanding the Puzzle of Declining Female Labour Force Participation in India'.