Abhiroop MUKHOPADHYAY
(Associate Researcher, November 2017 – present)
Biography:
Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay is a professor at the Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi). He is specialized in econometric methods applied to topics in the field of education in developing countries (especially India). Recent topics of research include the impact of better school infrastructure on rural schooling attendance, how to design teacher transfer programs and the impact of the distribution of human capital on growth and development. He has also worked on issues related to public policy: in particular, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), a big public workfare program in India, the political economy of its implementation and the effects of NREGS on education and borrowing. In the past, he also worked on issues related to health: the economic effects of HIV-AIDS and Cancer (Health).
Publications:
- “Weather shocks, Domestic Migration and Human Capital” (with Papiya Mazumdar, Sumit Mazumdar and Ajay Sharma), Journal of Quantitative Economics (Forthcoming)
- “Shaping Minds: The Transformative Effects of Theater-Based Learning” (with Ritam Chaurey, Sara Constantino, Shantanu Khanna, Nishith Prakash & Raisa Sherif), Conditional Accept based on Pre-Results Review, Journal of Development Economics
- Who bears the distance cost of Public Primary Healthcare? Hypertension among the elderly in Rural India (with Bertrand Lefevbre and Vastav Ratra) Social Science and Medicine, Volume 366, February 2025
- “Does Affirmative Action in Politics Hinder Performance? Evidence from India” (with Sabyasachi Das and Rajas Saroy), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 214, pp 370-405, October, 2023.
- “Science Education and Labor Market Outcomes in a Developing Economy” (with Tarun Jain, Nishith Prakash and Raghav Rakesh) , Economic Inquiry, 60(2), pp 741-763, April 2022
