Sutirtha Bandyopadhyay

JOURNAL PUBLICATION

1. Female Legislators and Forest Conservations in India (with Bipasha Maity, Pranabes Probeshika  Dutta, Naveen Hari)  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol 241, 107375, January 2026.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268125004925?via%3Dihub
2. Soil Endowments and Intrahousehold Distribution of Consumption in India: A Structural Approach  (with Bipasha Maity)Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol 74 No.2, pp. 415-453, January 2026. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/736134 
3. Spatial Effects of Import Competition: Edible Oils in India (with Bharat Ramaswami) Agricultural Economics, Vol 57, Issue 1, January 2026 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/agec.70066
4. The Representative Agent Bias in Cost of Living Indices (with Bharat Ramaswami) Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol 74 Issue 1, pp. 155-178, January 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/boer.12286
5. Gendered Well-Being: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Poor Urban Households in India Social Indicators Research, Vol 151 Issue 1, pp. 281-308, August 2020 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02372-1
6. Manufacturing Slowdown in India: New Evidence from a Double Deflation Approach (with Rahul  Nilakantan) Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 55 Issue 15, pp. 60-63, April 2020 https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/15/notes/manufacturing-slowdown-india.html
7. Vulnerability as an Ex Ante Measure of Poverty: An Empirical Investigation for India (with Joysankar Bhattacharya) Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 57 Issue 34, pp. 13-17, August 2022 https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/34/commentary/vulnerability-%C2%A0ex-ante%C2%A0measure-poverty.html 

PAPER UNDER REVISION

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)

WORKING PAPERS AND WORK IN PROGRESS

1. Poverty, Inequality, and Working Hours: Evidence on Veblen Effects from Labour Markets in India (with Akansh and Karthikeya Naraparaju) (work in progress)
2. Widowhood & Consumption of Private Assignable Goods: The Role of Socio-Economic Status, Rainfall Shocks and Historical Institution (with Bipasha Maity) (Ashoka University Discussion Paper, Discussion Paper 73) Link:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/research/widowhood-and-consumption-of-private-assignable-goods-the-role-of-socio-economic-status-rainfall-shocks-and-historical-institutions/
3. Does Prosperity Cast Her Out? Class Transition and Changing Work Status of Indian Women (with Vanshika Chowdhury and Joysankar Bhattacharya) (SSRN Working Paper) Link:-https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4903206
4. Human Development Index, Fertility and Fertility Preference: An Empirical Analysis from Indian Human Development Survey Data (with Kenneth Harttgen and Isabel Gunther) (work in progress)
5. Attempting an Empirically Robust Measurement of Managerial Ability: The Case of Indian Firms (with Akanksha Chadha and Pradeep Banerjee) (SSRN Working Paper) Link:-https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4518071
6. Dietary Diversification and Structural Transformation Within Food and Agriculture (with Bharat  Ramaswami) (work in progress)
7. What Happens to the Consumption Inequality in India in Post Liberalization Period? (with Bharat  Ramaswami) (work in progress)
8. Trade Liberalization, Nutrition and Dietary Diversity in India: The Case of Edible Oils (with Digvijay Singh Negi) (work in progress)

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Bandyopadhyay, S., & Maity, B. (2021). COVID-19 PANDEMIC. The COVID-19  Pandemic, India and the World: Economic and Social Policy Perspectives, 309-320. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003220145-21/covid-19-pandemic-sutirtha-     bandyopadhyay-bipasha-maity
2. Bandyopadhyay, S., Dorbala, H.C., Mandal, S. (2023). An Overview of the Impact of Nanotechnology on Economy and Business. In: Sarkar, B., Sonawane, A. (eds) Biological Applications of Nanoparticles. Springer, Singapore. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-3629-8_12
3. 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

1. Soil characteristics, women’s workforce participation and intra-household consumption distribution (with Bipasha Maity), Ideas for India (April, 2024) Link:- https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/social-identity/soil-characteristics-women-s-workforce-participation-and-intra-household-consumption-distribution.html
2. 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)Link:- https://theprint.in/opinion/want-to-stop-deforestation-elect-more-women-leaders-data-shows/2361385/
3. Edible Oil Trade Liberalization in India: What Can We Say from Policy Perspective? International Network for Economic Research Policy Brief Series, https://infer-research.eu/publication/infer-policy-brief-series-volume-2-issue-2-july-2019/ 
4. 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