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Debayan Pakrashi

Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, University of Queensland, University of Calgary, Jawaharlal Nehru University

ORCID iD 0000-0002-3422-7436
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Dr, Debayan Pakrashi is an applied microeconomist, particularly interested in policy-oriented issues related to Health, Behavioural, Experimental, Labor and Development Economics. To be specific, his research focuses on the role of peer effects and social networks in health, education, migration, technology adoption, and diffusion; discrimination based on migrant status, religion and caste; child labour and child marriage; maternal and child health; women's safety and empowerment; microcredit and self-help groups; the role of diet, physical activities and sleeping patterns for improved physical and psychological health; socio-economic determinants of subjective wellbeing and role of personality in decision making, etc; using both primary (RCTs, household surveys, field and audit experiments) and secondary datasets (cross-sectional as well as panel data). Even though his research primarily uses datasets collected via Randomized Controlled Trials and field experiments, as part of my ongoing research, I also regularly use large datasets such as the Gallup U.S. daily tracking dataset, the Gallup World Poll, Google Trend data, Nightlight data, county-level climate data, election data, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) and Health Survey for England (HSE) and apply both classical as well as modern econometric methodologies. He regularly works in the slums, rural and coastal regions, with partition refugees and other minority groups.

Employment

  • Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata Associate Professor
    2022 - Present
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Associate Professor
    2020 - 2022
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Assistant Professor
    2017 - 2020
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Assistant Proffesor (tenure-track)
    2014 - 2017
  • University of Queensland Australian Research Council Research Scholar
    2010 - 2014

Education

  • University of Queensland PhD in Economics
    2010 - 2014
  • University of Calgary Master of Arts in Economics (with thesis)
    2008 - 2010
  • Jawaharlal Nehru University Master of Arts in Economics
    2006 - 2008
  • University of Calcutta Bachelor of Science in Economics
    2003 - 2006

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