Ritika Jain

Assistant Professor

Email: ritika@cds.edu

Areas of specialisation: Politics and development, Industry and trade, Innovation and technology, Labour, employment and social security

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Education:

  1. PhD in Development Studies from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, 2016
  2. MSc in Economics from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, 2009
  3. BSc in Economics from University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 2007
Academic/ Professional Experience
  1. Assistant Professor at Centre for Development Studies, April, 2015 onwards
  2. Business Analyst, Genpact India, Bengaluru (2009-2010)

Academic achievements

  • One of the recipients of the “Her Research, Our Future” award, by Springer Nature, India in 2024
  • CDS Prize for the best performing Assistant Professor in terms of publications (for the biennium 2019-2021) awarded by Prof Kaushik Basu
  • Best paper award (second position) at the SEBI-NISM Research Conference on “Behaviour of Securities Markets- Sighting of Black Swan”- 2021

Publications:

Books

Chapters in Books

(a)”Price dispersion in Indian online market: Seller vs. product effects ” (with Anupama John), Accepted in “Contemporary issues in econometrics: Theory and application”  edited by Professor Anil K bera (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Dr. SrikantaKundu (Centre for Development Studies), Springer International

(b) “Is Disinvestment Detrimental to Employment? Firm Level Evidence from Indian Central Public Sector Enterprises” (single authored), In Manmohan Agarwal, Jing Wang and John Whalley (Eds.) Economics of China and India, Cooperation and Conflict, World Scientific, Singapore

 

Journal Articles

  1. “Information and communication technology and female employment in India” (Ritika Jain and Tirtha Chatterjee), Accepted at the Information Economics and Policy
  2. “Problem of the plenty- Ethnic fractionalization and female employment in rural India” (with Shreya Biswas), Accepted at The Journal of Quantitative Economics
  3. “Relative occupational aspirations and youth unemployment in India” (with Basit Abdullah and Vinoj Abraham), Accepted at The Indian Journal of Labour Economics.
  4. ‘Who has ICT access in India? A gender-based analysis’, The Indian Economic Journal
  5. ‘The politics of state-level COVID-19 responses in India: Evidence from the first wave in 2020’, The Indian Economic Journal (Ritika Jain and Tirtha Chatterjee)
  6. ‘Preferential employment policies and firm performance: Evidence from Indian public sector enterprises’, International Labour Review (with Vinoj Abraham)

  7. ‘Adoption of information and communication technology and the decision to work for women in India’, Economic and Political Weekly (Ritika Jain and Tirtha Chatterjee)

  8. ‘Financial incentives and fertility choices: Evidence from India’ (Tirtha Chatterjee and Ritika Jain), Accepted at The Indian Economic Journal
  9. ‘Altruistic Preference and Crime Perception’ (with Rounak Sil and Tirtha Chatterjee), Accepted at Social Indicators Research
  10. ‘Effect of COVID-19 lockdown on the profitability of firms in India’ Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy (Ritika Jain and Rajnish Kumar)
  11. “Effect of testing and social distancing measures on COVID-19 deaths in India: Role of pre-existing socio-economic factors” Journal of Public Affairs (Ritika Jain and Tirtha Chatterjee)
  12. “Gender Diversity, Gender Norms and Firm Performance: Evidence from India”, (single authored) Economic Systems (2022)
  13. “State ownership and dividend decisions: economic versus political determinants” (single-authored), Journal of Quantitative Economics (2022)
  14. “Is R&D spending influenced by disinvestment and local political corruption? The case of Indian central public sector enterprises”, (single authored) Economic Systems
  15. “Privatisation and the Indian state”, (single authored), Economic and Political Weekly
  16.  “Effect of ICT adoption on the demand for female employment in India”, (single authored) The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 
  17.  “Effect of innovation on corporate social responsibility: does ownership matter? Evidence from Indian manufacturing firms”, Economics of Innovation and New Technology (Ritika Jain and Krishnapriya V.S.)
  18.  “Privatisation and the Voluntary Retirement Scheme” Economic and Political Weekly (Vinoj Abraham and Ritika Jain)
  19.  “Electricity prices and firms’ decisions and outcomes: The case of India after a decade of the Electricity Act” Energy Economics (Ritika Jain and Amit Nandan)
  20. “Bribery and firm performance in India: a political economy perspective” (single authored), Journal of Asian Economics 
  21. “Effect of Electricity Act on Tariff Gap within the subsidizing sector: The case of India”, Energy Policy (Ritika Jain and Amit Nandan)
  22. “Ownership effects on R&D spending in India: does external borrowing matter?”,International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development (single authored)
  23. “Contributions to the exchequer funds by state level public sector enterprises: does political alignment matter?”,Constitutional Political Economy (single authored)
  24. “An empirical analysis of disinvestment policy in India- does ideology matter?”,Journal of Economic Policy Reform (Ritika Jain and Shubhro Sarkar)
  25. “The impact of ideology on disinvestment decisions of a coalition: A game theoretic framework”, Public Finance Review (Ritika Jain and ShubhroSrakar)
  26. “To profit or not to profit? the case of state level public sector enterprises in India”, Keio economic studies (single authored)
  27. “Public sector enterprise disinvestment in India: efficiency gains in a political context”, Journal of Asian Economics (single authored) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049007817300611)
  28. “Is Demonetisation a Windfall for the banking sector? Evidence from the Indian stock market”, Economics Bulletin (single authored)
  29. “Influence of Political Alignment and Federal Structure on Public Sector Employment: The case of India”, Economics Bulletin (single authored)
  30. “Mixed duopoly, cross-ownership and partial privatization”, Journal of Economics (Ritika Jain and Rupayan Pal)

 Other Publications

 (a) “Dimensions of India’s Economy- As seen through the Economic Survey 2019-20 and the Union Budget 2020-21”, Commentary on India’s economy and society series (M Parameswaran, ThiaguRanganathan, Sunil Mani, Sudip Chaudhuri, ManikanthaNataraj, Tirtha Chatterjee, Ritika Jain).

(b) “Dimensions of India’s Economy- As seen through the Economic Survey 2017-18 and the Union Budget 2018-19”, Commentary on India’s economy and society series (Manmohan Agarwal, Sunandan Ghosh, M Parameswaran, Ritika Jain, P Seenath, HrushikeshMallick, Vinoj Abraham, Udaya S Mishra, Sunil Mani and P L Beena).

(c) “Industrial investment intention and implementation in India: broad trends and patterns at the state level”, Commentary on India’s economy and society series (single authored)

(d) “Cephalometric analysis for gender determination using maxillary sinus index: a novel dimension in personal identification”, International journal of dentistry (Tanya Khaitan, ArpitaKabiraj, UdayGinjupally, Ritika Jain)

(e) “Determination of Serum IgE and Eosinophils as a Diagnostic Indicator in Allergic Rhinitis”, Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery (Manuprita Sharma, Tanya Khaitan, Santosh Raman, Ritika Jain, ArpitaKabiraj)

(f) “Skin Prick Test in Educating Population of Rural Part of Eastern India and Promoting Health in Allergic Rhinitis: An Epidemiological Study”, Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck (Manuprita Sharma, Tanya Khaitan, Ritika Jain)

 

Newspaper and other forums

 Current Research 

  1. Dividends of public sector enterprises and political determinants
  2. Job reservations and performance of public sector enterprises (with Vinoj Abraham)
  3. Effect of COVID-19 lockdown on firm performance (with Rajnish Kumar)
  4. COVID-19 deaths in India (with Tirtha Chatterjee)
  5. COVID-19 policy actions and political factors (with Tirtha Chatterjee)
  6. Effect of gender diversity on firm performance in India
  7. Effect of maternal schemes on fertility outcomes (with Tirtha Chatterjee)

Current Teaching

Microeconomics and Industrial Organization