EMPLOYMENT
Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, The University of Sydney (current)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics; The University of Queensland (2013)
FIELDS
Development Economics, Health Economics, Agricultural Economics, Applied Microeconomics
PUBLICATIONS
Maitra, Chandana. “How Food Insecure Are People Living in Australia?” The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (Oxford) 69, no. 3 (July 2025): 717–31. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.70020
Botha, Ferdi, David C Ribar, Chandana Maitra, and Roger Wilkins. “The Co‐occurrence of Food Insecurity and Other Hardships in Australia.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (Boston, USA) 46, no. 4 (December 2024): 1319–37. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13419
Pritchard, Bill, Madhushree Sekher, Chandana Maitra, and Vicky Nandgaye. “Do Climate Adaptation Programmes Potentially Exacerbate Rural Inequality? Identifying Beneficiaries of a Drought Mitigation Scheme in Maharashtra, India.” Climate and Development 17, no. 5 (May 2025): 458–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2024.2388052
Maitra, Chandana, Vani Sethi, Sayeed Unisa, and Sriram Shankar. “Household Food Insecurity and Maternal and Child Nutritional Status: Evidence from Maharashtra.” The Review of Income and Wealth (Oxford) 65, no. S1 (November 2019): S63–101. https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12436
Maitra, Chandana, and D.S Prasada Rao. “An Empirical Investigation into Measurement and Determinants of Food Security.” The Journal of Development Studies 54, no. 6 (June 2018): 1060–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2017.1324144
Maitra, Chandana. “Adapting an Experiential Scale to Measure Food Insecurity in Urban Slum Households of India.” Global Food Security (AMSTERDAM) 15 (December 2017): 53–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2017.04.005
Maitra, Chandana, Andrew Hodge, and Eliana Jimenez Soto. “A Scoping Review of Cost Benefit Analysis in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health: What We Know and What Are the Gaps?” Health Policy and Planning (England) 31, no. 10 (December 2016): 1530–47. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czw078
Islam, Asadul, Chandana Maitra, Debayan Pakrashi, and Russell Smyth. “Microcredit Programme Participation and Household Food Security in Rural Bangladesh.” Journal of Agricultural Economics 67, no. 2 (June 2016): 448–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12151
Maitra, Chandana, and D.S. Prasada Rao. “Poverty–Food Security Nexus: Evidence from a Survey of Urban Slum Dwellers in Kolkata.” World Development (Oxford) 72 (August 2015): 308–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.03.006
Sethi, Vani, Chandana Maitra, Rasmi Avula, Sayeed Unisa, and Surbhi Bhalla. “Internal Validity and Reliability of Experience-Based Household Food Insecurity Scales in Indian Settings.” Agriculture & Food Security (London) 6, no. 1 (February 2017): 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-017-0099-3
REPORTS
Maitra, C. (2018) ‘A review of studies examining the link between food insecurity and malnutrition’, FAO Technical Paper, FAO, Rome. Available at: http://www.fao.org/3/CA1447EN/ca1447en.pdf
FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO (2018) The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018: Building climate resilience for food security and nutrition. FAO, Rome. Available at: http://www.fao.org/3/I9553EN/i9553en.pdf
Sethi, V., Maitra, C., Unisa, S., Avula, R., Goswami, B., Gallagher, K. and Mebrahtu, S. (2016) ‘Usage, internal validity and reliability of experience‑based household food insecurity scales in Indian settings’, Nutrition Reports, Issue 5, UNICEF, New Delhi, India
Jimenez-Soto, E., Byrne, A., Firth, S., Minnery, M., Maitra, C., Hodge, A., Dettrick, Z., La Vincente, S. and Carvalho, N. (2014) The case for Australian investment in women’s and children’s health in Asia‑Pacific: The right and fair thing to do, but also good economics. January 2014
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Agricultural Economics, Economics of the Family, Development Economics, Health Economics, Micro Economic Theory
FELLOWSHIPS
Research Fellow, Life Course Center
Fellow of Higher Education Academy
GRANTS & AWARDS
2022: Office of Global Engagement/Partnership Collaboration Awards. The University of Sydney, with Pritchard. B, Madhushree. S
2022: Covid Kickstart Fund. Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, The University of Sydney
2021: Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, The University of Sydney
2017: India Development Fund. Office of Global Engagement, The University of Sydney
2017: Faculty Research Incubator Funding Award. Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, The University of Sydney
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
2025: CEPA Conference, Productivity, Regulation and Economic Policy, St Lucia Campus, The University of Queensland
2025, AARES Seminar, The Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Sydney node
2017: IARIW-ICRIER Conference on “Experiences and Challenges in Measuring Income, Inequality and Poverty in South Asia, New delhi, India
2017: Australian Development Economic Workshop (ADEW), University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney
2015: The 2nd International Food Security Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Referee for: Journal of Development Studies, Economics of Education Review, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Indicators Research, Maternal and Child Health Journal, Food Security