Bhabesh Hazarika

About

Dr. Bhabesh Hazarika is an Economist at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi. His research areas are public finance management, health economics, development economics, economics of the choice decision, and entrepreneurship. Dr. Hazarika has studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Ph.D. in Economics from Department of Humanities and Social Sciences) and Gauhati University, Guwahati (M.A. in Economics). He has published his research papers in peer reviewed journals like Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Asia Pacific Management Review, Asian Journal of Women's Studies, Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, and International Journal of Social Economics. Dr. Hazarika is a member of various professional associations including International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Southern Economic Association, Indian Society for Ecological Economics, and also reviews for a couple of national and international journals.

Employment

• National Institute of Public Finance and Policy Economist
  2016 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Senior Research Fellow
  2014 - 2016
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Junior Research Fellow
  2010 - 2014

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Ph D
  2011 - 2016
• Gauhati University MA
  2008 - 2010

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (17)

• Unlocking SDG potentials through the synergy of public spending and governance: A district level analysis in Assam
  World Development Sustainability 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2026.100276
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• State Heterogeneity in Public Health Expenditure Effects on Mortality in India: The Role of Institutional Quality
  International Journal of Health Economics and Policy 2025 DOI: 10.11648/j.hep.20251004.13
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• Linkage Between Income and Government Expenditure at Indian Sub-Nationals: A Second-Generation Panel Cointegration Techniques
  The Journal of Developing Areas 2023 DOI: 10.1353/jda.2023.0013
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• Public Spending, Governance, and Mortality Probability in the Indian Subnational: A Two-Level Random Intercept Analysis
  The Journal of Developing Areas 2023
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• Food Security and Psychological Distress among the Elderly in India
  Review of Development and Change 2022 DOI: 10.1177/09722661221136403
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• Gender income gap in rural informal micro-enterprises: an unconditional quantile decomposition approach in the handloom industry
  Eurasian Business Review 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s40821-019-00139-4
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• Socio-cultural motivation in women’s entrepreneurship: Exploring the handloom industry in Assam
  Asian Journal of Women's Studies 2019 DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2019.1637391
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• Micro-entrepreneurship Development in the Handloom Industry: An Empirical Analysis Among the Tribal Women in Assam
  International Journal of Rural Management 2018 DOI: 10.1177/0973005218754437
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• Determinants of financial risk attitude among the handloom micro-entrepreneurs in North East India
  Asia Pacific Management Review 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.apmrv.2017.07.013
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• Why Women Handloom Micro Entrepreneurs Earn Less than Their Male Counterpart? A Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Approach
  Deprivation, Development and Empowerment of Women in India: North-East Perspectives 2017
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