Dr  Indrani Roy Chowdhury

Centre for the Study for Regional Development (CSRD), School of Social Science (SSS 3), JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, New Delhi 110067, India
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Academic Qualification

BSc Economics (Hons), Msc Economics. MPhil Economics (Jadavpur University_PhD Economics (CITD, SIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Position held

Professor (Economics), since 2015, Centre for the Study for Regional Development (CSRD), SSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi
Reader & Associate Professor in Economics, Jamia Millia Islamia, (Central University), New Delhi
Asst Professor in Economics, Jamia Millia Islamia, (Central University), New Delhi
Economist, National Institute of Public Finance & Policy

Publications

2. Inequity in Unmet Health Care Needs of Women and Children in India: A Barrier to Sustainable Development Goals in Health, with Raj Kumar, May, 2024, in Sustainable Development, Wiley, (Scopus) http://doi.org/10.1002/sd.3042

3. Respiratory Health and Air Pollution in Opencast Coal Mining Region in India with A Paul., Indian Economic Journal, Pp – 1-17, (March, 2024). Sage publication, (Scopus) DOI: 10.1177/00194662241235489

4. Centralized Vs. Decentralized Control of Forest Use in a Federal Structure with Elite Capture, (sole publication) in the International Game Theory Review, Volume 25(03), (September 2023), World Scientific, (ISSN (print): 0219-1989 | ISSN (online): 1793-6675, (Scopus)
DOI: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219198923400030

5. Socioeconomic-related Horizontal and Vertical Inequity in Healthcare Utilization, among Cardio-Vascular Diseases Patients in India (with M. Azaruddin Akhtar) in Health Economics, Wiley, (First published: 08 February 2023, 32(5), pp -1000–1018, https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4651 ( (Scopus)

6. Determinants of Foundational Literacy and Arithmetic in India (with Indal Kumar). Vidyasagar University Journal of Economics, Volume 27, June 2023, Pp 14-29, (UGC Care List), ISSN - 0975-8003

7. Shadow Education in India: Participation and Socioeconomic Determinants, with Indal Kumar, Journal of South Asian Development (JSAD), 16(2) 244–272, 2021, Sage Publication, DOI: 10.1177/09731741211032472 (Scopus)

8. Socio-economic Inequality in Catastrophic Health Expenditure among Households in India: Decomposition Analysis, with M. Azaruddin. Akhtar, and N. Ahmad, Indian Economic Review, 55(2), 339-369, 2020, Springer publication). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41775-020-00093-3; DOI: 10.1007/s41775-020-00093-3 (Scopus)

9. Inequities in curative health-care utilization among the adult population (20- 59 years) in India: A comparative analysis of NSS 71st (2014) and 75th (2017-18) rounds, with S. Banerjee, PLoS ONE 15(11):2021, e0241994. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241994 (Scopus)

10. Measuring Socioeconomic Inequality in Self-Reported Morbidity in India: Decomposition Analysis, Review of Development and Change, with M. Azaruddin Akhtar, N. Ahmad, Volume: 25 issue: 1, page(s): 89-111, 2020, Sage Publication.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0972266120916317; (Scopus)

11. Private- Public Partnership, Commitment and X- inefficiency, with P. Roy Chowdhury, Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory & Practice, XVII(1), ISSN 0976 7479, 17(2) 157–167, 2018, Sage. publications. (Scopus) ; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0976747918795226

12. Health Damages from Air Pollution: Evidence from Open Cast Coal Mining Region of Odisha, India, with T. Nayak, Ecology, Economy and Society, 1(1), 43-65, 2018, Indian Society for Ecological Economics, ISSN: XYZA: BCDE. https://ecoinsee.org/journal/papers/issue-1-1/14.pdf. (Scopus)

Chapters in Edited Volume
13. Understanding the Intimate Partner violence & its Socio-economic Caveats, with Bhawna Taneja, & Saumya in Rethinking Gender Mainstreaming, eds. M. Manjula & Sangita Dutta Gupta, Volume 2, Emareld Studies in Sustainable Development, Emareld Publication (Forthcoming, 2025)

14. Who Carries the Burden of Anemia: Evidence from the National Family Health Survey, with Bhwna Taneja, in Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change, eds. by Rajendra Baikady, Sajid SM, Varoshini Nadesan, Jaroslaw Przeperski, M. Rezaul Islam and Gao Jianguo, Springer Singapore Publication, (Forthcoming, 2024)

15. Access to Improved Maternal and Child Healthcare Services: The Extent of Coverage and Inequality in India with Particular Reference to Assam, with Pallabi Gogoi, in Sustainable Development Goals Amidst Multiple Global Shocks – Challenges and Way Forward, eds. by A. Ganesh-Kumar, Vijay Laxmi Pandey and Bharti Nandwani, IGDIR, Springer Verlag, Singapore Publication, July, 2024, ISBN 9819941601, 9789819941605

16. Ambient Air Pollution and Respiratory Illness: A Study in Opencast Coal Mining Region of Odisha, with A. Paul & T. Nayak, in Sustainable Development Insights from India : Selected Essays in Honour of Ramprasad Sengupta, Editors: Dasgupta, Purnamita, Saha, Anindita Roy, Singhal, Robin (Eds.), Chapter 14, Pp 281-301, (March 2021), Springer Singapore Publication). DOI :10.1007/978-981-33-4830-1, Hardcover ISBN 978-981-334-829-5

17. Does Environmental Externality matters to Human Health near the Coal Mining Area ? A study of MCL region in Odisha, India, with T Nayak, Chapter 9, in Energy Economics and the Environment : Conservation, Preservation and the Sustainability, eds. by Mohammad Younus Bhatt; Hiranmoy Roy and M S Bhatt , Sage publication, July 2020, Pp 180 – 194, ISBN-10 : 9353883105 , ISBN-13 : 978-9353883102

18. Public Private Partnerships: Demand Risk and Collusion, with P. Roy Chowdhury, in Economics, Management and Sustainability: Essays in honour of Prof Anup Sinha, by Anindya Sen, Partha Ray, Runa Sarkar (Eds.), 53-64, 2018, Springer Publications, ISBN 978-981-13-1893-1.

Experience

1. Teaching a course in Health Economics and Quantitative Techniques at the PhD programme at CSRD, SSS, JNU; and Quantitative Methods for MA at CSRD, SSS, JNU.

2. MPhil & Phd supervision in the areas of Health & wellbeing, Eeconomics of Cancer, Environment and Health, Maternal and Child Health, Economics of Education, Gender & Nutritional transition, Gender & Development. MPhil Awarded - 8 and Phd awarded 4. Ongoing PhD students -9

3. During the last five years I have been involved in 4 reserach projects related to Domestic Violence and Anemia among married women in India, Economics of Cancer, Air Pollution and Respiratory illness

4. Diring the last 5 years I have delivered more than 60 invited lectures in the national and international platforms and about 30 presentations, discussant and chaired sessions in the national and international conferences

5. Journal Refereeing Experience : Regularly reviewing various national and international journals of high reputations in Economics and population studies like Bulletin of Economic Research, Social Science & Medicine, Scientific Reports, Health Economics Review, BMC Health Services Research, Plos One, International Journal for Equity in Health, Indian Growth and Development Review, Ecology, Economy and Society, Journal of Biosocial Science, International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Journal of Public Affairs, Journal of Social & Economic Development, Studies in Microeconomics, Arthaniti: Journal of Theory & Practice, Review of Development and Change,

6. Member of the Senior Citizen Care Committee – Comprehensive Strategy for Senior Citizen Care in India, Health & Family Welfare Division, Niti Aayog, 2024

Area of Specialization

Health Economics, Gender & Development, Maternal & Child Health, Economics of Cancer

Membership of other Professional Associations

1. Life Member of the Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP) - LM755)
2. Life Member of the Indian Association of Social Sciences & Health (IASSH) –(1276)
3. Life Member of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE 353).
4. Life Member of the Indian Health Economics & Policy Association (IHEPA)
5. Life Member of the Indian Economic Association (IEA) Life Membership no. DL 227.
6. Life Member of the South Asian Network of Environment & Development Economics.
7. Member of the Senior Citizen Care Committee – Comprehensive Strategy for Senior Citizen Care in India, Health & Family Welfare Division, Niti Aayog, 2024