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

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