Sweta Sen

About

I am an economist — environmental economics as my core field — studying how climate extremes, the energy transition, and policy responses to them reshape welfare, time allocation, and inequality in India and across Asian economies. My research evaluates the policy frameworks of climate governance — carbon pricing, disaster risk reduction and relief, renewable-energy deployment, and risk transfer — integrating microeconomic theory with applied econometrics, spatial analysis, and satellite-derived climate data, an approach rooted in my interdisciplinary PhD at IIT Kharagpur. I have published ten Scopus-indexed papers and hold active research engagements with the World Bank and ICSSR. In 2026 I was awarded the Fulbright–Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Michigan.

I take interest in interdisciplinary research like Climate, Water, Energy, because it has practical implications and is heavily policy-relevant.

I have some software and coding knowledge of (but not limited to) R, STATA, MATLAB, EViews, ArcGIS.

Employment

• Madras School of Economics, Chennai, Tamil Nadu Assistant Professor
  2023 - Present
• Institute of Economic Growth Senior Researcher
  2023 - 2023

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur MS
  2014 - 2017
• University of Calcutta Department of Economics M.Sc
  2011 - 2013
• University of Calcutta B.Sc
  2008 - 2011

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (10)

• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on household vulnerability to food insecurity across Indian states
  SN Business & Economics 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s43546-026-01287-2
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• Carbon pricing for sustainable transition in India
  World Development Perspectives 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100586
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• What determines financial inclusion? A household-level investigation in rural Odisha, India
  Journal of Social and Economic Development 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s40847-023-00302-8
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• Does firm size affect client targeting? An investigation over the clients of the Indian Microfinance Institutions
  Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 2023 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-01728-5
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• Choices between adaptation and coping strategies as responses to cyclonic shocks and their impact on household welfare in villages on the east coast of India
  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103834
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• Impact of tropical cyclones on sustainable development through loops and cycles: evidence from select developing countries of Asia
  Empirical Economics 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s00181-023-02431-9
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• Long-term forecasting of tropical cyclones over Bay of Bengal using linear and non-linear statistical models
  Geojournal 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s10708-021-10543-x
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• Vulnerability and risk perceptions of hydrometeorological disasters: a study of a coastal district of Odisha, India
  Geojournal 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s10708-022-10637-0
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• A profile of body composition and obesity related gene polymorphism among eastern and north eastern populations of India
  Meta Gene 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.mgene.2021.100984
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• Estimating household vulnerability to tropical cyclones: An investigation of tropical cyclone shocks in coastal villages of eastern India
  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103404
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