Sutirtha Bandyopadhyay

JOURNAL PUBLICATION

• Spatial Effects of Import Competition: Edible Oils in India (with Bharat Ramaswami) (Forthcoming in Agricultural Economics, 2025)   

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/agec.70066

• Soil Endowments and Intrahousehold Distribution of Consumption in India: A Structural Approach (with Bipasha Maity) (Forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025)

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/736134

• The Representative Agent Bias in Cost of Living Indices (with Bharat Ramaswami), Bulletin of Economic Research, 2021.

https://doi.org/10.1111/boer.12286

• Gendered Well-Being: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Poor Urban Households in India, Social Indicators Research,

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02372-1

• Manufacturing Slowdown in India: New Evidence from a Double Deflation Approach(with Rahul Nilakantan) Economic and Political Weekly, 2020.

https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/15/notes/manufacturing-slowdown-india.html

• Vulnerability as an Ex Ante Measure of Poverty: An Empirical Investigation for India (with Joysankar Bhattacharya), Economic and Political Weekly, 2022,

https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/34/commentary/vulnerability-%C2%A0ex- ante%C2%A0measure-poverty.html

PAPER UNDER REVISION

• Female Legislators and Forest Conservations in India (with Bipasha Maity, Pranabes Probeshika Dutta, Naveen Hari) (Revised and Resubmitted (2^nd Round) in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)
• Impact of “Social Veblen Effect” in Mediating Female Labour-Force Participation: An Indian Study (with Vanshika Chaudhary and Joysankar Bhattacharya) (Revised and Resubmitted in Economic and Political Weekly as a Special Article)
• Poverty, Inequality, and Working Hours: Evidence on Veblen Effects from Labour Markets in India (with Akansh and Karthikeya Naraparaju) (Under review in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)

WORKING PAPERS AND WORK IN PROGRESS: –

• “Widowhood and Consumption of Private Assignable Goods: The Role of Socio-Economic Status, Rainfall Shocks and Historical Institutions” with Bipasha Maity (Ashoka University Discussion Paper, Discussion Paper 73)
• Does Prosperity Cast Her Out? Class Transition and Changing Work Status of Indian Women (with Vanshika Chowdhury and Joysankar Bhattacharya) (SSRN Working Paper)
• Attempting an Empirically Robust Measurement of Managerial Ability: The Case of Indian Firms(with Akanksha Chadha and Pradeep Banerjee) (SSRN Working Paper)
• “Human Development Index and Fertility: An Empirical Analysis from Indian Human Development Survey Data” with Isabel Gunther and Kenneth Harttgen (work in progress)
• What Happens to the Consumption Inequality in India in Post Liberalization Period? (with Bharat Ramaswami) (work in progress)

BOOK CHAPTERS

• “Covid-19 Pandemic: Implications for Widowed and Elderly Women in India” in an edited volume titled “The Covid-19 Pandemic, India and the World: Economic and Social Policy Perspectives edited by Rajib Bhattacharyya, Ananya Ghosh Dastidar and Soumyen Sikdar (co-authored with Bipasha Maity) Routledge 

         https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003220145-21/covid-19-pandemic-sutirtha-     bandyopadhyay-bipasha-maity

•  “An Overview of the Impact of Nanotechnology on Economy and Business” (co-authored with Haricharan Dorbala and Sudipta Mandal). Forthcoming in an edited volume titled  “Biological Applications of Nano-Particles” (edited by Biplab Sarkar and Avinash Sonawane) of Springer Nature

        https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-3629-8_12

• Bandyopadhyay, S., Sahoo, S. (2023). Sample Selection Models for Panel Data: Application to Labor Force Participation in India. In: Mukherjee, D. (eds) Applied Econometric Analysis Using Cross Section and Panel Data. Contributions to Economics. Springer, Singapore.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-4902-1_13

OTHER WRITINGS

• Soil characteristics, women’s workforce participation and intra-household consumption distribution (with Bipasha Maity), Ideas for India (April, 2024)

https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/social-identity/soil-characteristics-women-s-workforce-participation-and-intra-household-consumption-distribution.html

• Want to stop deforestation? Elect more women leaders, data shows (with Bipasha Maity, Naveen Hari, Pranabes Probeshika Dutta), Ideas for India and The Print (November, 2024)

https://theprint.in/opinion/want-to-stop-deforestation-elect-morewomen-leaders-data-shows/2361385/

• Running Dry: India’s Urgent Wake-Up Call On Groundwater Depletion (op-ed article in Indore Free Press Journal), 2025.

https://x.com/IIM_I/status/1995372291538944247?s=20