Research and publication

Publications: 

• Patriarchal Norms and Women's Labor Market Outcomes (with Anirban Mukherjee), Review of Development Economics (Willey), August, 2024 (published online)  (Link) Media mention: [Business Standard]  [Anandabazar Patrika]  

• Gender Gap and Socio-cultural Influences: A Study on the Indian Labour Market, in Dominic Savio, Samrat Roy, and Saswati Chaudhuri (eds), Transforming our World Together towards Sustainable Development. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2023). Link. 

• Gender Gap and Indian Labour Market:: What Does Literature Say?, Edited book on Indian Economy: A Visionary Perspective, Published By Regal Publisher, New Delhi 2015, ISBN 978-81-8484-524-2;

• Gender Bias Work Participation and Socio cultural Influences: A Study on Indian Labour Market. Calcutta Business School Journal, Vol 2 No. 2 ISSN 2349-5073, 2015

• Hobbes M., Groot W.T. de, Voet E. van der & Sarkhel S. (2011), Freely Disposable Time: A Time and Money Integrated Measure of Poverty and Freedom, World Development 39(12): 2055-2068, ISSN: 0305-750X, Impact Factor 1.965 (Link)

• Arsenic Speciation in Food and Estimation of the Dietary Intake of Inorganic Arsenic in a Rural Village of West Bengal, India with Pastor- Signes A.A. Carbonell-Barrachina, K Mitra K and Hobbes M, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2008, 56 (20), pp 9469–9474 (Link)

• Delivery of Subterranean Arsenic Removal in West Bengal – with Wouter de Groot and Marieke Hobbes , CML report 176 A: in the framework of the TIPOT project (Link)

Working Papers:

1. Rise of Alternate Currency: Can Indian Rupee replace US Dollar as a Global reserve currency? with Sujal Shaw and Basuli Dasgupta (Submitted)

2. Motherhood and labor market penalty: A study on Indian labor market. (with Anirban Mukherjee) GLO Discussion Paper 673 (submitted)

3. Patriarchal Norms and Women's Labor Market Outcomes (with Anirban Mukherjee) (SSRN working paper) 

4.  "Wage Gap in Labor Market, Gender Bias and Socio-Cultural Influences: A Decomposition Analysis for India," (eSocialSciences)

5. Patriarchy, parenthood and gender pay gap: evidence from Indian labor market. International Journal of Growth and Development, ISSN 2524-213X . 

Popular Writings 

1. A complicated right , with Sukanya Sarkhel,  The Telegraph, 21st September,2024 (Link)

2. শুধু কর্মক্ষেত্রই নয়, সমস্যাটি পারিবারিক (সহলেখক-অনির্বান মুখার্জী ) -- এই সময়, 29/10/2019 (Link)