Publications

Refereed Publications:

1. Working Harder? Intra-household Labour Supply Response to Migration by those Left Behind, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol LX, No. 46, 2025 (with Niladri Sekhar Dhar).

2. Critical Role of Financial Capital in Determining the Pattern of Trade, Finance Research Open, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2025 (with Sugata Marjit and Mousakhi Ray). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.finr.2025.100014 

3. Development Dynamics in Jhargram (West Bengal): What is revealed from PCR and PLS Estimation?, Indian Economic Journal, 2025 (with Dhananjay Patra and Nalin Bharti). https://doi.org/10.1177/00194662251335886 

4. Does the Asset-type Matter in Vulnerability Reduction? Evidence from Rural Indian Households, Review of Development Economics, Vol 29, No. 3,  pp. 1-15, 2025, (with Niladri Sekhar Dhar). http://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13203 

5. Are Better-Equipped Schools Delivering Better Student Outcomes? Evidence from India”, Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol 9, No. 1, 2025 (with Dhananjay Patra and Nalin Bharti). https://doi.org/10.1177/09737030251346751 

6. Held Back by Homes: Effects of Domestic Work on Occupational Choices of Women in India, Indian Economic Review, 59, No. 2, pp. 559–599, 2024, (with Arun Jose), https://doi.org/10.1007/s41775-024-00237-9.

7. Easing Credit-Constraints on Investment – does corruption help?, Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, 2024 (with Debarati Ghosh). doi: 10.1177/09767479251320002

8. Determinants of Migration from Poor Households in India: An Empirical Investigation, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 67, pp. 829–847, 2024 (with Shreya Nupur). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41027-024-00511-7.

9. Utilizing Maternal Healthcare Services: Are Female-Headed Households Faring Poorly?, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Vol. 24, 299, 2024, (with Subhasree Ghatak).  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-024-06445-8

10. Malnourished Children? Child Health Disparities and its Causes in Eastern India, Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2024, (with Dhananjay Patra).  https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2913 

11. Migration, Remittance and Poverty Dynamics in Rural India: Evidence from Longitudinal Survey, Migration Letters, Vol. 20, No.8, pp.532-542, 2023. (with Shreya Nupur). https://doi.org/10.59670/ml.v20i8.5426 

12. Growth of Informal Sector Enterprises in India: An Empirical Study of the Key Drivers, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 58, No. 41, 2023, (with Ruchi Kumari).

13. Can Borrowing Constraints Enhance Environmental Sustainability? An Alternative Parametric Approach, Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol.33, No.4, pp. 2683-2693, 2023, (with Abhishek Dutta and Debarati Ghosh). https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3622 

14. Perceived Economic Well-being among Rural Indian Households: Investigating the Role of Remittances, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 58, No. 9, 2023, (with Shreya Nupur).

15. Negotiating Autonomy: The linkages between intimate partner violence, women’s paid work status and birth outcomes, Negotiating Autonomy: The linkages between intimate partner violence, women’s paid work status and birth outcomes, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2023, (with Subhasree Ghatak). https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci13030082 

16. Credit Constraints and Increased Firm-level Production Fragmentation – Evidence from India, Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, Vol 15, No. 1, pp. 93-108, 2023 (with Debarati Ghosh). https://doi.org/10.1177/09749101211067722

17. The Effect of Extensive and Intensive Margins on Income from Crop Production: a study in Bihar, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 58, No. 1, 2023 (with Niladri Sekhar Dhar).

18. COVID-19 Induced Income Loss among Migrant Workers: Evidence from Eight Villages of Bihar, Economic Papers, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 325-346, 2022 (with Niladri Sekhar Dhar and Shreya Nupur). http://doi.org/10.1111/1759-3441.12368 

19. Impact of Financial Performance on Environmental Sustainability in the Presence of Credit Constraints: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Firms,  Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, pp. 1-17, 2022 (with Debarati Ghosh and Abhishek Dutta). https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2022.2122688

20. Firms’ Environmental Behaviour under Credit Constraints – Evidence from Panel of Indian Manufacturing Firms, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 63, pp. 490-500, 2022 (with Debarati Ghosh). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2022.07.004 

21. Investment Behaviour under Financial Constraints: a study of Indian firms, SN Business and Economics, Vol. 1, No. 108, pp. 1-15, 2021 (with Debarati Ghosh). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43546-021-00113-1 

22. Is Informality the Key to Growth and Stability?, Applied Economics Quarterly, Vol 66, No. 1, pg-29-45, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3790/aeq.66.1.29 

23. Property Rights Documentation in Determining Credit Availability for Informal Firms - a study of Indian firms, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Vol. 19, pp. 123–138, 2021 (with Niladri Sekhar Dhar). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40953-020-00221-z 

24. Credit Constraint and Intra-Country Production Reorganization - Evidence from the Unorganized Textile Industry in Maharashtra, Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 217-230, 2020 (with Niladri Sekhar Dhar). https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-09-2018-0307 

25. Outsourcing and Productivity During Economic Crisis: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Firms, Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 1-13, 2018 (with Saibal Kar). https://doi.org/10.1177/0976747918792638 

26. Globalization, Corruption and Women Empowerment, Economic Papers, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 327-343, 2018.  https://doi.org/10.1111/1759-3441.12227 

27.  Intra-country Technology Transfer, Indian Economic Review (special volume on Applied Game Theory and Policy), Vol. 51, No.1-2, pp. 117-12, 2017 (with Sugata Marjit). https://www.jstor.org/stable/44376239 

28. FDI and Business Internationalization of the Unorganized Sector: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing, World Development, Vol. 83, pp. 340-349, 2016 (with Hamid Beladi and Saibal Kar). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.01.006 

29.  Product Variety, Finite Changes and Wage Inequality, Economic Modelling, Vol. 35, pp. 610-613, 2013 (with Saibal Kar and Sugata Marjit). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2013.08.020 

Book Chapters:

1.  Unravelling Threads: The Decline of Bhagalpur Silk Art in Outsourcing: Cases and Studies in  Marquez, F. P., Lev, B., Liao, Huang, (eds.) Using Operations Research and Management Science Methods, 2024, Springer: International Series, (with Ruchi Kumari).

2. Exploring Smart Waste Management for Smart Agriculture in India in A. Dwivedi (ed.) Waste Management, Sanitation and Society, 2023,  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK (with Dhananjay Patra and Nalin Bharti).

3. Income Diversification among Rural Households: Patterns and Determinants in S. Bhaumik (ed.) Enhancing Agricultural Productivity and Farmer Incomes in Bihar, 2022, Sage Publishing, (with Niladri Sekhar Dhar).

4.  Trade, Unemployment and Inequality in Product Variety Models - An Analytical Survey in Naoyuki Yoshino et. al. (eds.) Studies in International Economics and Finance: Essays in Honour of Prof. Bandi Kamaiah, 2021, Springer Verlag, New Delhi (with Sugata Marjit).

5.  International Trade and Production Organization: A Review of Contemporary Literature in S. Marjit and S. Kar (eds.) International Trade, Welfare, and General Equilibrium: Contemporary and Emerging Perspectives, 2018, Cambridge University Press.

6.  Human Capital Fostering Service Sector as an Element in Economic Growth in Masaeli et al. (eds.), India of our Dreams: A Model for Global Development, 2018, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, New Delhi.

7.  Access to Health in Towards Bridging Disparities, Human Development Report –Solapur district, UNDP, 2015 (with Niladri Sekhar Dhar).

8.  Gender Equity and Empowerment in Towards Bridging Disparities, Human Development Report – Solapur district, UNDP, 2015.

9.  The Unorganized Sector and Access to Finance in Rural India in  A. Goyal (ed.), Handbook of the Indian Economy in the 21st Century: Understanding the Inherent Dynamism, 2014, OUP, New Delhi (with Saibal Kar).

Book Reviews:

1. "Increasing Agricultural Trade Opportunities in India", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 59, Issue No. 17, 2024.

2. “Gendered Migration - Does the Better World Exist?”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 55, Issue No. 49, 2020. 

3. "International Trade and Economic Development", South Asian Journal of Macroeconomic and Public Finance, Sage Publications, Vol.4, No. 2, pp. 288–290, 2015.

4. “In Search of a Better World? Labour Migration from South Asia”, South Asian Economic Journal, Sage Publication, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 335-337 (with Saibal Kar), ISSN: 1391-5614, 2013.

Op-Eds:

1. “Lack of Quality Higher Education Leads to Brain Drain”, 2022, Free Press (with Shreya Nupur).

2.  “Inter-State Trade Barriers in India: Cause for Concern?”, 2013, Samay Paribartan, Vol. 2, Issue 12 (with Saibal Kar).

3. “Quality of Management Education”, 2016, Vyapar Expert, Vol 2, Issue 7 (with Divya Singhal).