Peer-reviewed journal articles
Environment, Resource, & Food
Bhattacharya, Haimanti and Innes, Robert (2008) "An Empirical Exploration of the Population-Environment Nexus in India." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90(4): 883-901. Received 'Quality of Research Discovery Award' from European Association of Agricultural Economists in 2011.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti and Lueck, Dean (2009) "The Role of Property Rights in Determining the Environmental Quality-Income Relationship." Ecological Economics 68(10): 2511-2524.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti and Innes, Robert (2013) "Income and the Environment in Rural India: Is There a Poverty Trap?" American Journal of Agricultural Economics 95(1): 42-69.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti and Osgood, Daniel (2014) "Weather Index Insurance and Common Property Resources." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 43(3): 438-450.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti and Innes, Robert (2016) "Concentration, Product Variety and Entry-for-Merger: Evidence from New Product Introductions in the U.S. Food Industry" American Journal of Agricultural Economics 98(5): 1360-1376. Media mention in Forbes.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti (2019) "Do pro-social students care more for the environment?" International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 20(4):761-783.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti (2020) "Environmental and Socio-economic Sustainability in India: Evidence from CO2 Emission and Economic Inequality Relationship." Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 9(1): 57-76.
Behavioral Economics
Dugar, Subhasish; Bhattacharya, Haimanti and Reiley, David (2012) "Can't Buy Me Love? A Field Experiment Exploring the Trade-off Between Income and Caste-Status in an Indian Matrimonial Market." Economic Inquiry 50(2): 534-550.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti and Dugar, Subhasish (2012) "Status Incentives and Performance." Managerial and Decision Economics 33(7-8): 549-563.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti and Dugar, Subhasish (2013) "Contests for Ranks: Experimental Evidence." Southern Economic Journal 79(3): 621-638.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti and Dugar, Subhasish (2014) "Partnership Formation: The Role of Social Status." Management Science 60(5): 1130-1147.
Dugar, Subhasish and Bhattacharya, Haimanti (2017) "Fishy Behavior: A Field Experiment on (Dis)honesty in the Marketplace." Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 67: 41-55.
Dugar, Subhasish and Bhattacharya, Haimanti (2019) "Can concerns for social status mitigate the 'Lemons Problem'? Experimental evidence from the Indian caste hierarchy." Journal of South Asian Development 14(2): 151-179.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti and Dugar, Subhasish (2020) "The Hidden Cost of Bargaining: Evidence from A Cheating-prone Marketplace." International Economic Review, 61(3): 1253-1280.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti & Dugar, Subhasish (2022) "Business Norm versus Norm Nudge As A Contract-enforcing Mechanism: Evidence from A Real Marketplace." European Economic Review 144 (104078).
Bhattacharya, Haimanti & Dugar, Subhasish (2023) "Undervaluation versus Unaffordability As Negotiation Tactics: Evidence from A Field Experiment." Journal of Economic Psychology 96 (102609).
Bhattacharya, Haimanti & Dugar, Subhasish (2024) "Can Threats Improve Payoffs from Bargaining in Markets with Retaliations? Evidence from a Field Experiment." Games and Economic Behavior 148: 119-137.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti; Dugar, Subhasish & Sarkar, Sumit (2025) "Bargaining over taking from a powerless third party: The role of social preferences." Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.
Gendered well-being
Bhattacharya, Haimanti (2015) "Spousal Violence and Women's Employment in India." Feminist Economics 21(2): 30-52.
Margaret Carlson, Akiko Kamimura, Ha Ngoc, Trinh, Wenjing Mo, Niwako Yamawaki, Haimanti Bhattacharya, Hanh Nguyen, Angie Makomenaw, Ryan Birkholz, Lenora Olson (2015) "Perceptions of Violence Against Women Among College Students in the US, Japan, India, Vietnam and China." Public Policy and Administration Research 5(11).
Bhattacharya, Haimanti (2016) "Mass Media Exposure and Attitude towards Spousal Violence in India." Social Science Journal 53(4): 398-416.
Akiko Kamimura, Ha Ngoc Trinh, Hanh Nguyen, Niwako Yamawaki, Haimanti Bhattacharya, Wenjing Mo, Angie Makomenaw, Lenora Olson (2016) "Bystander Attitudes to Prevent Sexual Assault: A Study of College Students in the US, Japan, India, Vietnam and China." Journal of Sex Research 53(9): 1131-1138.
Stephens, T., Kamimura, A., Yamawaki, N., Bhattacharya, H., Mo, W., Birkholz, R., Makomenaw, A., & Olson, LM. (2016). "Rape Myth Acceptance Among College Students in the United States, Japan and India." Sage Open 6(4).
Sharon L. Talboys, Manmeet Kaur, James VanDerslice, Lisa H. Gren, Haimanti Bhattacharya, Stephen C. Alder (2017). "What is Eve Teasing? A Mixed Methods Study of Sexual Harassment of Young Women in the Rural Indian Context." Sage Open 7(1).
Akiko Kamimura & Haimanti Bhattacharya, Mindy Steadman, Samin Panahi, Adrienne Griffiths, Hsien-Wen Meng, Kathy Franchek-Roa. (2022). "Dating/intimate partner violence and social media use among college students." Violence and Gender 9(4): 187-192.
Gunseli Berik, Haimanti Bhattacharya, TP Singh, Aashima Sinha, Jacqueline Strenio, Sharin Naomi, Sameen Zafar, Sharon Talboys (2024) "Men’s Perspectives on Public-Space Sexual Harassment of Women in South Asia." Global Public Health, 19(1).
Gunseli Berik, Haimanti Bhattacharya, TP Singh, Aashima Sinha, Jacqueline Strenio, Sharin Naomi, Sameen Zafar, Sharon Talboys (2025) "Capability Approach Lens to Public-space Sexual Harassment of Women: Evidence from India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan." Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.
Other publications
Bhattacharya, Haimanti (2008) "Inter linkages between Environmental Change and Development." Newsletter of Indian Young Professionals Network.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti (2011) "Effects of Financial Incentives on Status-based Discrimination in a Marriage Market." Harvard College Economics Review, IV(2): 19-20.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti (2011) "Vegetation and Development in Rural India." Ailaan, Newsletter of National Council for Rural Institutes (NCRI), India, II(VI), 27-31.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti (2015) "India" in Mehmet Odekon (ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty, 2nd Edition, Sage Publications.
Sharon L. Talboys, Manmeet Kaur, James VanDerslice, Lisa H. Gren, Haimanti Bhattacharya, Stephen C. Alder (2016) Is eve teasing a public health problem? Public sexual harassment in rural India and its association with common mental disorders and suicide ideation among young women ages 15-24. Annals of Global Health, 82(3): 561-562.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti (2022) "Climate Justice Implications of the Relationship between Economic Inequality and Carbon Emissions in India" in Prakash Kashwan (ed.) Climate Justice in India, Cambridge University Press.