Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Punarjit Roychowdhury
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Contact Information
- Email: [email protected]
Applied Microeconometrics, Development Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Gender, Behavioral Economics
2017
Ph.D., Economics Southern Methodist University, U.S.A.
2014
MA, Economics Southern Methodist University, U.S.A.
2011
M.Sc., Applied Economics Presidency College, Kolkata
2009
B.Sc., Economics University of Calcutta, Kolkata
2021
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
2019 - 2021
Assistant Professor (with tenure), Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, UK
2018 - 2019
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management Indore, Indore
2017 - 2018
Assistant Professor, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR
2014 - 2016
Lecturer, Southern Methodist University, U.S.A.
2018 Seed Money Research Support, IIM Indore, 100,000 2017 Melody Rice Memorial Award in Economics (for excellence in research), Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University 2016 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Southern Methodist University 2016 Graduate Student Award, Southern Economic Association 2016 Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Southern Methodist University 2016 Dean's Award, Graduate Research Day, Southern Methodist University 2015 Graduate Student Assembly Conference Travel Grant, Southern Methodist University 2014 Student Development Grant, Southern Methodist University 2013 Omicron Delta Epsilon, International Honor Society for Economics, U.S.A. 2012 Full Tuition Scholarship and Teaching Assistantship, Southern Methodist University, Texas, U.S.A. 2012 Foreign Travel Scholarship for pursuing doctoral studies abroad, University of Calcutta, India 2012 Samir Kumar Ganguly Memorial Scholarship for securing the First position in M.Sc Examination, Presidency College, Kolkata.
- Roychowdhury, P. and Dhamija, G. (2022). “Don’t Cross the Line: Bounding the Causal Effect of Hypergamy Violation on Domestic Violence in India,” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (forthcoming).
- Dhamija, G., Ojha, M., and Roychowdhury, P. (2022). “Hunger and Health: Reexamining the Impact of Food Insecurity on Child Malnutrition in India,” Journal of Development Studies, 58, 1181-1210.
- Roychowdhury, P. (2021). “Too Unwell to Trust? The Effect of Mental Health on Social Trust in Europe.” Economics & Human Biology, 42, 101021.
- Roychowdhury, P. (2021). “(Em)Powered by Science? Estimating the Relative Labor Market Returns to Majoring in Science in High School in India.” Economics of Education Review, 82, 102118.
- Roychowdhury, P. and Dhamija, G. (2021). “The causal impact of women’s age at marriage on domestic violence in India,” Feminist Economics, 27, 188–220.
- McDonough, I.K., Roychowdhury, P., and Dhamija, G. (2021). “Measuring the Dynamics of the Achievement Gap Between Public and Private School Students in India,” Journal of Labor Research, 42, 78–122.
- Millimet, D.L., Li, H., and Roychowdhury, P. (2020). “Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States,” Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 38, 732–753.
- McCoy, S.C., McDonough, I.K., and Roychowdhury, P. (2020). “The Impact of Terrorism on Social Capital: Evidence from the 2015 Charlie Hebdo Paris Shooting,” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 82, 526–548.
- McDonough, I.K., Roy, M., and Roychowdhury, P. (2020). “Exploring the Dynamics of Racial Gaps in Food Insecurity in the United States,” Review of Economics of the Household, 18, 387–412.
- Dhamija, G. and Roychowdhury, P. (2020). “Age at marriage and women’s labor market outcomes in India,” Journal of International Development, 32, 342–374.
- Marjit, S., Oladi, R., and Roychowdhury, P. (2020). “Income Distribution and Trade Pattern,” Review of Economics (Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften), 71, 1–14.
- Roychowdhury, P. (2019). “Peer Effects in Consumption in India: An Instrumental Variables Approach Using Negative Idiosyncratic Shocks,” World Development, 114, 122–137.
- Roychowdhury, P. (2018). “Visible Consumption, Relative Deprivation and Health: Evidence from India,” Economics Bulletin, 38, 1366–1380.
- Roychowdhury, P. (2017). “Visible inequality, status competition and conspicuous consumption: evidence from rural India,” Oxford Economic Papers, 69, 36–54.
- Li, H., Millimet, D.L., and Roychowdhury, P. (2020). “Measurement of Economic Mobility in India Using Noisy Data: A Partial Identification Approach,” R&R Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A.
- Maitra, P., Roychowdhury, P., Yu, W. (2021). “The Causal Effect of Local Economic Conditions on Domestic Violence and Other Related Outcomes: Evidence from India.”
- Roychowdhury, P. and Dhamija, G. (2022). “Educational Hypogamy and Female Employment in Rural India.”
- “Remembering Jacob Mincer, a pioneer of labour economics, on his birth anniversary,” (with Aanshi Sharma), Money Control, August 25, 2022.
- “Hypergamy violation and domestic violence,” Ideas for India, May 27, 2022.
- “Thinning India,” The Telegraph, May 12, 2022.
- “Time to turn spotlight back on malnutrition,” The Hindu BusinessLine, January 20, 2022.
- “Pandemic of Inequality: The Falling Rate of Intergenerational Mobility,” LiveWire, June 24, 2021.
- “The hand that hits,” The Telegraph, March 27, 2020.
- “Economic Mobility in India: Estimation Using Noisy Data,” Ideas for India, September 18, 2019
- “India’s economic mobility and its impact on inequality,” Mint, August 12, 2019.
- “What is forcing Indian women to stay at home?” Hindustan Times, April 1, 2019.
- “Is growing inequality behind the rise in mental diseases in India?” The Telegraph, February 28, 2019
- “How women’s age at marriage impacts domestic violence,” Ideas for India, July 2, 2018.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
India @75 ICG Annual Conference, Goa, Aug. 26-27, 2022
Australian Gender Economics Workshop (virtual), Women in Economics Network, Feb. 8-9, 2021
1st SMU Alumni Conference (virtual), Southern Methodist University, Jan 20-21, 2021 (conference co-organizer and presenter).
15th Annual Growth and Development Conference, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India, Dec. 18-20, 2019
Delhi School of Economics Winter School, New Delhi, Dec. 10-13, 2019
5th International Conference on South Asian Economic Development, South Asian University, New Delhi, Feb. 21-22, 2019
North East Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference 2018, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Oct. 26-28, 2018
Conference on New Directions in Economic Theory and Empirical Economics, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Aug. 17-18, 2018
5th Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, Montreal, Canada, June 26-29, 2018 (accepted but could not attend)
7th Annual International Conference on Public Finance and Public Policy, Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy, Kolkata, India, January 3-4, 2018 (Special Invited Talk)
13th Annual Growth and Development Conference, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India, Dec. 18-20, 2017
Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Washington D. C., Nov. 19-21, 2016
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, June 16-19, 2016
Texas Econometrics Camp 2016, La Torretta Lake Resort and Spa, Montgomery, TX, Feb. 20-21, 2016
Graduate Research Day, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, Feb. 10, 2016
XXVth Annual Development Economics Conference, organized by Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, Dec. 22-23, 2015
Graduate Research Day, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, Feb. 25, 2015
10th Annual Growth and Development Conference, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India, Dec. 18-20, 2014
Conference on Social Identity and Economic Development, organized jointly by University of Exeter, United Kingdom and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India, Dec. 15, 2014
Stata Texas Empirical Microeconomics Conference IV – Graduate Poster Session, Dallas, TX, Nov. 7-8, 2014
Young Economists’ Conference, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, March 11-12, 2012
SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata, November 4, 2022
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, September 1 & 7, 2022
International Management Institute, New Delhi, November 15, 2021
Asian Development Research Institute, Patna, September 9, 2021
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, September 3, 2021
Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, India, May 28, 2021
School of Economics, University of Nottingham, UK, May 6, 2021
Nottingham University Business School, UK, August 12, 2020
O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, September 5, 2019
Ashoka University, Haryana, September 4, 2019
Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing, China, May 24, 2019
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India May 13, 2019
South Asian University, New Delhi, India, April 12, 2019
Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, India, March 15, 2019
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, April 17, 2018
Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India, December 20, 2017
Ahmedabad University, India, November 8, 2017
Delhi School of Economics, India, November 2, 2017
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India, March 28, 2017
Shiv Nadar University, Uttar Pradesh, India, January 24, October 6, 2017
Ahmedabad University, India, November 18, 2016
Presidency University, Kolkata, India, July 26, 2016
Brown Bag, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, March 30, 2016
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, Jan. 7, 2016
Brown Bag, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, September 24, 2014