
Dr. Amartya Paul
Assistant Professor
Email: amartya@cds.edu
Areas of specialisation: Pro-Poor Growth, Public Policy, Development Economics, Applied Econometrics
Education
2015—2021: Ph.D. in Economics, Centre for Development Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (Awarded, 2022)
2011—2013: M.Phil. in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Awarded, 2014)
2008—2010: M.Sc. in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Calcutta
2005—2008: B.Sc. in Economics (Hons.), R K Mission Vidyamandira, University of Calcutta
Employment
- November 2024 – present: Assistant Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
- July 2022 – November 2024: Assistant Professor, School of Economics, XIM University, Bhubaneswar
- September 2021 – July 2022: Assistant Professor, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar School of Economics University, Bengaluru
Short-term visit
- Visiting PhD Fellow (April 15th – July 14th, 2020),UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland (Converted to a ‘Distant’ fellowship program due to COVID-19)
- Visiting Doctoral Student (January 1st – March 31st, 2018), Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany
Academic achievement
- Visiting Ph.D. fellowship, UNU-WIDER, 2020
- Best Paper Award, Young Scholars’ Congress, 2019
- Fellowship for Ph.D. internship Abroad, Government of Kerala, India, 2017.
- Doctoral Fellowship, Centre for Development Studies, Government of Kerala, August 2018- July 2019
- Doctoral Fellowship, Indian Council of Social Science Research, August 2015- July 2018
Publication
- “Reducing Delay in Payments in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from an Information Dissemination Intervention,” with Upasak Das and Mohit Sharma, The World Bank Economic Review, 37, Issue 3, August 2023.
- “Effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Stock Market Return and Volatility under Heterogeneous market characteristics,” with Srikanta Kundu, International Review of Economics & Finance, Vol. 80, July 2022.
Working paper/ Work in progress
- State Heterogeneity, Redistributive Policy, and Inclusive Growth: Evidence from India with a special reference to Education (with Srikanta Kundu)
- Has growth been ‘inclusive’ in India: Evidence from Indian household survey data
- Relaxing anonymity axiom in the measurement of pro-poor growth
- Poverty Transitions in India: A Policy Perspective
- Women’s Education and Fertility in India
Teaching
- AE105: Econometric Methods