Monalisha Chakraborty

Employment

• Madras Institute of Development Studies Assistant Professor
  2025 - Present
• M S Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences Assistant Professor
  2024 - 2025
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Post-Doctoral Fellow
  2023 - 2024
• Institute of Development Studies Kolkata Honorary Research Associate
  2022 - 2023
• National Council of Applied Economic Research Principal Investigator
  2018 - 2019
• Institute of Development Studies Kolkata Research Assistant
  2017 - 2018

Education

• Institute of Development Studies Kolkata Ph.D
  2017 - 2023
• Institute of Development Studies Kolkata M.Phil
  2015 - 2017
• Jadavpur University PGD
  2015 - 2016
• Presidency University MSc
  2013 - 2015
• University of Calcutta BSc
  2010 - 2013

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (19)

• From Trash to Treasure: How Bengali Migrant Workers in Bengaluru find Opportunity in Scraps.
  Indians in the United States of America: India Migration Report 2025 2026
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• Natal inequality or sex-selective abortions in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala, India: new actionable evidence from the civil registration system
  Journal of Social and Economic Development 2026 0 citations DOI: 10.1007/s40847-026-00508-6
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• Women at Work, But Not on the Move: What do the Data Say?
  The India Forum. 2025
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• Does parental migration affect children’s health in rural India? A fresh look at retrospective data using LASSO Regression Method
  SN Social Sciences 2024 1 citation DOI: 10.1007/s43545-024-01034-0
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• Does Parental Out-migration Affect Nutritional Health Status and Morbidity Among Children? Evidence From India Human Development Survey Data for the Empowered Action Group States
  Journal of Health Management 2024 1 citation DOI: 10.1177/09720634241236843
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• The cumulative effect of parental migration on the educational outcomes of children in rural West Bengal: Combining India Human Development Survey and a primary survey data.
  Institute of Development Studies Kolkata 2023
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• Association between Parental Migration and Undernutrition Among the Children Left Behind in Rural Empowered Action Group (EAG) States, India
  Health and Nutrition of Women and Children in Empowered Action Group States of India: Status and Progress 2023 0 citations DOI: 10.4324/9781003430636-13
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• Bengali Migrant Workers in South India: A Mixed-Method Inquiry into Their Earnings, Livings and Struggle During Covid Pandemic
  The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 2022 15 citations DOI: 10.1007/s41027-022-00374-w
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• Reading Variegated Dispossession in an Asian Megacity
  Housing, Theory and Society 2022 1 citation DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2021.1901780
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• Bengali migrant workers during pandemic and lockdown
  Monthly Bulletin of the Asiatic Society 2020
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