“The Opt-Out Process: The Determinants of Educated Female’s Labour Supply decision in India” (Jointly with Mehr Kaur), paper to be presented in the forthcoming EALE Conference, Padova, Italy, and also in the forthcoming Cornell University Development Economics conference “100 years of Economic Development”, Cornell, Ithaca.
About
Suddhasil is a sex-ratio researcher and teaches Advanced and Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics and Population & Development at the post-graduate level. He has been teaching for more than a decade. He has a Doctorate in Development Economics, Spatial Econometrics and Demography and Post-Doc (non-degree) in Labor Economics, with specialization in India’s female labour supply.
Journal Articles
“Missing Females and the Discourse of Violence – Evidence from Indian Subcontinent”, (jointly with Purbash Nayak) paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Econometric Society.
“Determinants of Spousal age-difference in Indian Population” (jointly with Praveen) paper to be presented in the forthcoming British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) London School of Economics conference.
“Sex Ratio Pattern among the Scheduled Castes Population in Urban Maharashtra, 1991 – 2011”, (jointly with Purbash Nayak, Mehr Kaur and Praveen)
“Marriage Squeeze in Asian Demography” (with Mr Praveen, Co-investigator, USAID supported study)
“Opt-out” or kept out? The effect of stigma, structure, selection, and sector on the labour force participation of married women in India” (Jointly with Nabanita Dattafupta and Debasish Nandy), Review of Development Economics, March 19, 2020
“Sex Ratio Pattern & ‘Prosperity Effect’: What do the NSSO data show?” (Jointly with Debasish Nandy & Satish B Agnihotri), Economic and Political Weekly, October 11-17, 2003
“Gender Gap in Education: Further Exploration”, (Jointly with Debasish Nandy), Artha Beekshan (Special issue), 2005
“Government Finance in the Indian States: Patterns, Trends and Socio-Economic Fallout”, (Jointly with Debasish Nandy and P K. Chatterjee), Artha Beekshan: Kolkata, Bengal Economic Association, June 2003
“Trends in West Bengal Agriculture”, (Jointly with Debasish Nandy), ENCOUNTER, New Delhi: Upalabdhi Trust, November / December 2000
“Gujarat: An emerging epicentre of Female Deficit”, (Jointly with Satish B Agnihotri & Debasish Nandy)
“Sex-Ratio pattern in Maharashtra: Locating ‘epi – centres’ of the female deficit” (Jointly with Satish B Agnihotri & Debasish Nandy)
Book chapters
“Government Finance in the Indian States: Patterns, Trends and Socio-Economic Fallout”, (Jointly with Debasish Nandy and P K. Chatterjee), State Level Fiscal Reforms in the Indian Economy, New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publisher, 2006
“Government Finance in the Indian States: Patterns, Trends and Socio-Economic Fallout”, (Jointly with Debasish Nandy and P K. Chatterjee), State Level Fiscal Reforms in the Indian Economy, New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publisher, 2006
“Social Group Inequality and Poverty in Rural India: A Fresh Exploration”, (Jointly with Debasish Nandy), in K N. Rao (edited) Poverty in India: Global and Regional Dimension, New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publisher, 2005
“Social Group Inequality and Poverty in Rural India: A Fresh Exploration”, (Jointly with Debasish Nandy), in K N. Rao (edited) Poverty in India: Global and Regional Dimension, New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publisher, 2005
“Child Labour in Zari Industry of Howrah district of West Bengal” (Jointly with Manab Sen and Debasish Nandy) in R.K.Sen & A Dasgupta (edited) Problems of Child Labour in India, New Delhi: Deep and Deep Publisher, December 2002
“Child Labour in Zari Industry of Howrah district of West Bengal” (Jointly with Manab Sen and Debasish Nandy) in R.K.Sen & A Dasgupta (edited) Problems of Child Labour in India, New Delhi: Deep and Deep Publisher, December 2002
“Economic Reforms and Employment Generation: A Conceptual and Analytical Study of the Indian Scenario” (Jointly with P K. Chatterjee and Debasish Nandy), in Ashok Mathur and P.S. Raikhy (edited) Economic Liberalisation and Its Implication for Employment, New Delhi: Deep and Deep Publisher, December 2001
“Economic Reforms and Employment Generation: A Conceptual and Analytical Study of the Indian Scenario” (Jointly with P K. Chatterjee and Debasish Nandy), in Ashok Mathur and P.S. Raikhy (edited) Economic Liberalisation and Its Implication for Employment, New Delhi: Deep and Deep Publisher, December 2001
“Women’s Role – Mitigating the Disaster”, (Jointly with Debasish Nandy Samit Kar (edited) Flood Situation in West Bengal, Calcutta: Directed Initiative, February 1999
“Women’s Role – Mitigating the Disaster”, (Jointly with Debasish Nandy Samit Kar (edited) Flood Situation in West Bengal, Calcutta: Directed Initiative, February 1999
Seminar / Conference / Workshop Presentations
“Bridging the GAP”: The interplay between fertility transition and birth masculinity in India, 29th August, BEXCO, XXVII IUSSP Population Conference, Busan South Korea
2011
Patterns of asset holdings in Maharashtra: What do the Census 2011 household asset and amenities data reveal?, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India March 2011
2009
Special Lecture on ‘Sex Ratio Problem of India’ the Department of Sociology of University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2009
2009
“Hundred years of juvenile masculinity in India: Why the contemporary pattern is important?” in XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference, Marrakech, Morocco September 2009
1981
“Sex ratio patterns among the scheduled castes in India 1981-200” in XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference, Marrakech, Morocco September 2009
2009
IAFFE Annual Conference, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA June 2009
2008
University of Maryland (UMD) and National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) organized an international conference on “Measuring Human Development”, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, May 2008
2008
Department of Economics, University of Göttingen, Platz der Göttingen Sieben 3, OEC II-19, 37073 Göttingen February 2008
2006
IAFFE Annual Conference, Sydney Australia 2006
2005
IUSSP Tours conference, France July 2005
2004
IAFFE Annual Conference, University of Oxford, UK August 2004
2003
International Conference on “Sharing Global Prosperity” United Nations University / World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER), Helsinki September 2003
2003
Indian Economic Association Conference, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India December 2003
2002
Bengal Economic Association Conference, Presidency College, West Bengal, India February 2002
2001
Indian Economic Association Conference, VIT, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India December 2001
Awards & Recognitions
- International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) grant 2013
- Post-Doctoral fellowship from Danish Research council, 2012
- Resource Person, Workshop on Data Dissemination on house listing and housing census 2011, organised by the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) and the Directorate of Census Operations (Maharashtra)
- Resource Person, “International Workshop on Methodology and Software Development for Statistical Geoinformatics of Hotspot Detection, Ranking and Prioritization for Monitoring, Etiology, Early Warning and Sustainable Development,” organised by Department of Statistics, the University of Pune and Penn State University (Funding: National Science Foundation)
- International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) grant 2009
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) grant 2009
- FMSH- 2009
- Grant from University of Maryland and National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER); May 2008
- ICSSR-FMSH 2007, 2008
- Ford Foundation grants 2006
- University Research Scholarship, Kalyani University 2005-2007
- Welcome Trust grant 2005
- Ford Foundation Consultancy Assignment 2004
- Consultancy grant (SSA) from UNICEF, May 2004
- UNU-WIDER grant, September 2003