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Tanika Chakraborty
PhD (Washington University, St Louis)
Assistant Professor, Economics Group, Department of Economic Sciences
Research Interest
Labor, Development, Applied Microeconomics
Office
FB 626
Department of HSS
IIT Kanpur
Kanpur, UP 208016
India
Education
PhD, Economics, Washington University, St Louis, 2009
M.A., Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 2002
B.Sc., Economics, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India, 2000
Selected Publications
“Kinship Institutions and Sex Ratios in India” (with Sukkoo Kim), 2010, Demography Vol.47, No. 4, pp. 989-1012, Springer
“Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities”(with Bakhrom Mirkasimov, and Susan Steiner), 2014, Journal of Comparative Economics, doi:10.1016/j.jce.2014.09.004, Elsevier
“Trade Liberalization in a Traditional Society: Implications for Relative Female Survival”, 2015, World Development, Volume 74, Pages 158–170, Elsevier
"Court-ship, Kinship and Business: A study on the interaction between the formal and informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship", (with Anirban Mukherjee and Sarani Saha), 2015, IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4.1: 1-21, Springer
“English Language Premium in a Globalizing Economy: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in India” 2015, (with Shilpi Kapur) Economics of Education Review, 50 (2016): 1-16, Springer
“Mother’s Autonomy and Child Welfare - A New Measure and Some New Evidence”, 2015, (with Prabal De) Review of Economics of the Household, DOI: 10.1007/ s11150-015-9314-9 Springer
"Beyond the Average: Peer Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education" (with Olga Nottmeyer, Simone Schueller & Klaus Zimmermann), 2014, IZA Discussion Paper # 8695
Awards & Fellowships
Research Fellow, IZA-Bonn, 2009-present
Research Affiliate, DIW Berlin, 2011-2012
Population Association of America 2012, Honorarium to present at the Annual meeting
World Congress of the Econometric Society 2010, Honorarium to present at the Annual meeting
Ford Foundation Scholarship, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2000-2002