Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Gitanjali Sen

Gitanjali Sen

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School of Humanities and Social Sciences


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Development Economics - Applied Micro (Education, Health, Gender Demography)

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  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
  • M.A. in Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
  • M.A. in Economics, University of Kalyani-India
  • B.Sc. in Economics, University of Calcutta

  • Associate Professor, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, India (2019-Present).
  • Associate Professor, SRM University, AP, India (2018-19).
  • Assistant Professor, Shiv Nadar University, India (2013-18).
  • Assistant Professor, Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyd.
  • Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi.
  • Lead Economist, at Comat Technologies, Bangalore.
  • Assistant Professor, Jain Group Institution, Bangalore.
  • Consultant, Mega Ace Consultancy, Mumbai.

Student Advising and Other Services

  • PhD Thesis Advising: Gaurav Dhamija (Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad), Subarna Banerjee (ongoing), Anshika (ongoing), Anushree (Co-advsing, ongoing). UG and Master’s thesis advising (20+ students)
  • Services- Member of Faculty Hiring Committee, Econ Graduate committee, Econ PG Curriculum Review Comittee, Department’s website SPOC, Member of Board of Studies for SHSS, Served IRB

Reviewer

  • World Development, World Bank Economic Review, Economic Modelling, The Journal of Development Studies, Review of Development Economics, Journal of Developing Areas, Development and Change, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Business Economics and Statistics, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, Journal of Modeling in Management, Review of Market Integration.
  • PhD thesis Review: IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Delhi; MPhil Thesis Review: South Asian University - Delhi.

MEMBERSHIP: American Economic Association, The Econometric Society, Population Association of America, Southern Economic Association, AMIE (Mentor 2023-24)

  1. Persistent Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer: A Case of Empowering Women through Kanyashree in India (with Subarna Banerjee), 2024, Journal of Population Economics, 37(66) ,  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-01045-4
  2. Money Matters: Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme on Child and Maternal Health (with Anshika Mathur), 2024, forthcoming, Journal of Human Capital. 
  3. Keeping Girls in Schools Longer: the Kanyashree Approach in India (with Dhanushka Thamarapani), 2023, Feminist Economics, 29(4): 36-64. doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2023.2263542 
  4. To What Extent Does the Fertility Rate Explain the Education Gap? (with Mitul Surana, Rakesh Basant), 2023, Population Research and Policy Review, 42(35), doi.org/10.1007/s11113-023-09783-1 
  5. Impact of Early Life Shock on Educational Pursuits – Does a Fade out Co-exist with Persistence? (with Gaurav Dhamija). 2022. Plos One, October, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275871 
  6. Lasting Impact on Health through the Lenses of Severity in Earthquake. (with Gaurav Dhamija), 2022. Environment and Development Economics, September, 1-24. doi:10.1017/S1355770X2200016X 
  7. Lasting Impact of Early Life Interventions: Evidence from India’s Integrated Child Development Services (with Gaurav Dhamija), 2022, The Journal of Development Studies, 57(1):106-138, doi: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1762861 
  8. Quota-based Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Impact on Other Backward Classes in India (with Rakesh Basant). 2019, The Journal of Development Studies, doi: 10.1080/00220388.2019.1573987 
  9. How Much Does Having a Bank Account Help the Poor? with Sankar De), 2017, The Journal of Development Studies, Sep. Doi: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1355455
  10. Access to Higher Education in India: An Exploration of its Antecedents (with Rakesh Basant), 2017, Economic and Political Weekly, 49(51), December 20. 
  11. Parental Education as a Criterion for Affirmative Action in Higher Education (with Rakesh Basant), 2014, World Devel opment, December. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.07.007 
  12. Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Insights from Recent Empirical Research (with Rakesh Basant), 2012, ORF Issue Brief No. 49, New Delhi. 
  13. Who Participates in Higher Education in India? Rethinking the Role of Affirmative Action (with Rakesh Basant), 2010, Economic and Political Weekly, 45(39), Sep. 
  14. 14. Trade and FDI Related Reforms in the States, 2010. Academic Foundation, Delhi, May, ISBN: 9788171888252.

  1. Importance of English as a Second Language: Learnings from a Language Experiment in India (with Bharti Nandwani), Revise and Resubmit. 
  2. Language and STEM Choice (with Bharti Nandwani). 
  3. Gender Violence and Women’s Participation in Education, (with Subarna Banerjee) 
  4. Aging and Labor Force Participation (with Anshika Mathur)

  1. 2024:ICDE-France (July), 5th ACEF conference at BITS Pilani-Hyderabad (Feb), Asia Meeting of The Econometric Society at IIT-Delhi (Jan).
  2. 2023:Invited talk at Conference in University of Kalyani (Nov), Conference at IIT-Kanpur (Aug), Invited seminar at the Delhi School of Economics (May). Invited talk at the workshop on Education, ISI-Delhi (March), IIMA-RISE conference, invited talk (Feb).
  3. 2022:NEUDC at Yale University, USA (Nov), Scheduled to present paper at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Ford Lauderdale, FL, USA, ICDE (International Conference on Development Economics) 2022, AFDEV, Clermont Ferrand, France (Travel was Sponsored by IMF) (June), SERI annual meeting invited as a member of the Education group, ISB – Hyderabad.
  4. 2021:6th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, at Indian Statistical Institute New Delhi (Dec), Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Texas, USA (Nov), Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (Oct), Invited lecture at the South Asian University, New Delhi.
  5. 2019: Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Dec), Sustainability and Development Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (the travel was sponsored by the organisers) (Oct), Conference by Center for Public Policy-Indian Institute of Management Bangalore in Delhi(Aug).
  6. 2018: Invited talk at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata (June), Conference on Health Economics, Essen, Germany (May), Invited lecture at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai (April).
  7. 2017: International conference on Development Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Dec), Invited lecture on sym- posium in higher education, at Sri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi (Nov), Development Economics conference, Uni- versity of Gottingen, Germany (June), Invited talk at Wuppertal University, Germany (partial funding received) (June), Conference in KU Leuven, Belgium (March), National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi (Feb), Econ World Conference, Rome (partial travel grant received) (Jan).

  1. Revolutionizing Child Health Through Vaccination (with Anushree Khatri). 
  2. Cash Transfer and human development outcomes (with Mitul Surana) 
  3. Infrastructure Development and Women’s Development Outcomes (with Deepshikha Yadav)
  4. Child Marriage and Development Outcomes (with Deepshikha Yadav)