The University provides a generous fund to faculty to undertake self-funded studies and present the output in conferences and seminars. A list of ongoing studies is given here. For details of these studies, please contact concerned faculty.
Using DLHS data, this district-level study examines the discontinuity in continuum of care. The paper uses spatial econometric methods to show that space plays a role in causing drop outs in uptake of maternal health care services.
Study examining the reliance on behavioural contraception methods among Bengali-speaking community in West Bengal and other states using Demographic Health Survey data (2-4 rounds).
I have collected relevant primary data for computing Multi-dimensional Poverty index and its inequality with the help of my Ph. D scholar, at SKBU. A paper has been presented in annual conference at NISM, Mumbai in January, 2019.
Linkage between globalization and income inequality and its implication for conflict (while controlling for the forms of mobilisation) is being explored in a panel dataset of countries.
A district-level dataset is being prepared, linking climate and and agricultural productivity information. If available, farmer suicide data will be incorporated to to explain extreme outcomes.
Using the IHDS-II data on a nationally representative sample of households, persistence of occupational choice through generations is being estimated and explained.