Human Development in India (IHDS-I and II)

Under Nutrition and Public Policy in India

Publications

Sensitivity of Work Participation Rates to Survey Design

Role of the Public Distribution System in Shaping Household Food and Nutritional Security in India

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: A Catalyst for Rural Transformation

Kerala Perspective Plan 2030

Demographic Deposit, Dividend and Debt

Human Development Index for Rural Andhra Pradesh

Indexing Human Development in India: Indicators, Scaling and Composition

Inter-State Variations in Human Development Differentials among Social Groups in India

Reports by Students Receiving Grant Awards from NDIC

Newspaper Op-eds

Events

Skilling India: No Time to Lose

Third Annual India Human Development Survey Data User Conference

Report on "MGNREGA: A Catalyst for Rural Transformation"

Roundtable discussion on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

Leapfrogging Methodology & Technology in Household Survey Research: Lessons from the US and India

Private vs. Government: New Evidence on School Performance and Implications for India's Right to Education Act

Researchers

Manjistha Banerji

Manjistha Banerji is a social demographer with areas of research broadly encompassing family demography, social change and gender, migration and the labour market and education and development and survey methods. As a Fellow at NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre, she is working on modules that help capture women’s access to resources in large scale surveys. She is also part of a migration study that draws upon a unique migration data (2017) tracking migrants and non- migrants from prior two rounds of India Human Development Survey (2012 and 2005). Prior to joining NCAER, Manjistha worked with ASER Centre where she co- authored the India Early Childhood Education Impact Study (IECEI). 

Debasis Barik

Debasis Barik is a Fellow at NCAER, working with the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) team. His research interests lie in public health, demography, migration, gender, labour and social security. His dissertation was centered on the health and economic implications of ageing population in Indian states. His current research focuses on health and health systems.  His other research interests include analysing the issues arising out of demographic transition in India. 

Tarujyoti Buragohain

Tarujyoti Buragohain is an Associate Fellow at NCAER., Her research interests include infrastructure and energy issues. She has written several project reports for the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and the Ministry of Human Research Development.  She has been a member of the Advisory Committee for Monitoring and Evaluation of Solar Photovoltaics in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy,  a member of the Research Advisory Committee on Tribal Development Research in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and is a life member of Bhartiya Arthik Shodh Sansthan and the Input–Output Research Association.

Pallavi Choudhuri

Pallavi Choudhuri is a Fellow at NCAER, working with the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC). Her ongoing research delves into issues related to gender, financial inclusion, and development, using applied micro-econometric tools. Previously at NCAER, she has worked on assessing challenges to skill development and workforce participation and on examining the pace of business regulatory reforms. Prior to joining NCAER, Choudhuri taught courses in Economics and Finance at the Grand Valley State University and the University of Wyoming. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Wyoming, where her research focused on risks and regulation in the U.S. banking industry.

Bijay Chouhan

Bijay Chouhan is working as Data Manager with NCAER’s new National Data Innovation Centre. His interest area includes advanced data and IT technologies. Bijay has an experience of  around 15 years in applying information technology to processes and systems. An IT professional with considerable experience in managing and analysis of high volume of primary/ secondary dataset,  he has been associated with many national/international think-tanks and institutes as IT and Data consultant.

Mousumi Das

Mousumi Das is a micro-econometrician and her research interests are in poverty measurement, nutrition and health, gender, migration, and education.  Mousumi was earlier an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, and, prior to that, an Assistant Professor at IFMR- KREA University in Chennai.  She has been a consultant with the World Bank where she worked with the South Asia Regional Gender Innovation Lab. She has been a Visiting Fellow at IFPRI in Washington DC, a Research Associate at NIBM Pune, and a Mortgage Officer at the Royal Bank of Scotland office in Gurgaon. She has won a number of fellowships and awards.

Nijara Deka

Nijara Deka is an Associate Fellow at NCAER. She is an applied micro-economist with interests also in macroeconomics and economic growth. Her primary areas of research include Poverty and Social Inequality, Deprivation and Human Development, Labour and Informal Sector, Economics of Education and Health, Social Protection and Sustainable Development. In her doctoral research, she analysed multidimensional deprivation of urban poor households. She received her PhD in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. 

Sonalde Desai

Sonalde Desai is a Professor at NCAER with a joint appointment as Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. She directs the NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC), a newly established Centre by NCAER with its consortium partners, University of Maryland and University of Michigan. She is an internationally known demographer whose work deals primarily with human development in developing countries with a particular focus on gender and class inequalities. While most of her research focuses on India, she has also undertaken comparative studies across South Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. At present, Sonalde Desai is leading the India Human Development Survey (IHDS), India’s only nationally representative panel study with interviews in 2004–05 and 2011–12. The next wave of IHDS is planned for 2019-20. The IHDS is used by over 9,000 users worldwide and has led to nearly 500 papers and dissertations. Desai is a member of the editorial committee of Population and Development Review and has served on the editorial advisory boards of many Indian and international journals. At present, she chairs the International Outreach Committee of the Population Association of America.   

She has published articles in a wide range of Indian and international sociology and demography journals and is a frequent contributor to The Hindu.

Neerad Deshmukh

Neerad Deshmukh is a Research Associate. His areas of interest include labour economics and studying informal industries. He is passionate about pursuing interdisciplinary research in social sciences.  At NCAER he is working National Data Innovation Centre assisting in literature review, questionnaire development and data analysis. He has completed his MA in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in 2015 and has a bachelor’s degree in Economics. His Master’s thesis studied how informal industries are coping up with changes in the economy.

Amaresh Dubey

Prabir Kumar Ghosh

Prabir Kumar Ghosh is a Fellow at NCAER. Currently, he is involved in coordinating all-India level survey work and analysis of large scale primary data. His research interests include development economics, human development, income, expenditure, poverty & nutrition, demography, and budgetary analysis on social sector & poverty alleviation programs. 

Arpita Kayal

Arpita Kayal is the Programme Manager at National Data Innovation Centre project. She has previously worked in social sectors where she has been involved in project management and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, documentation, advocacy, financial and human resource management, both at grass root level organization and national level program.

Arpita has a MA in English Literature from Rabindra Bharati University and a Masters in Social Welfare from the Netaji Subhash Open University. 

Jaya Koti

Jaya Koti is a Project Analyst at NCAER.  She holds a Master’s Degree in Rural Development from IGNOU. She has worked on various projects like “Under Nutrition and Public Policy in India”, “India Human Development Survey”, “e-Readiness” and “Impact Assessment and Economic Benefits of Weather and Marine Services (MoES)”, etc. Her areas of research interests are health, education, rural development and gender inequality. Her expertise lies in data handling. She has worked with large data sets such as the NSS, NFHS and IHDS.  She primarily works with different statistical software and operating systems, including STATA & SPSS.

M Abhinav Saikrishna

Om Prakash Sharma

O. P. Sharma is an Associate Fellow at the NCAER, specialising in primary data collection, field management, field training, coding and editing. He is currently the project coordinator for the India Human Development Survey-II. Some of the other studies he has worked on include: Fertiliser Consumption and Quality Seeds, Human Development Profile for India 2004-05, Rural Economic and Demographic Change in India and Third Census of Handloom Weavers. Between 1988 and 2007, he headed the NCAER Field Office at Bhopal recruiting, training and supervising field staff and editing primary data. 

Anushree Sinha

Anushree Sinha, Professor, joined NCAER in 1989 and has held several positions since then. Before assuming her current position, she was NCAER’s Principal Economist during 2001-2003.  She worked in macro- economic analyses including Macro Forecasting Modelling at NCAER. In her current research she uses general equilibrium frameworks to analyse the impact of policies and external economic shocks on the social sector including the informal and female workers. She is a post- doctorate from the Department of International Development, University of Oxford and has been a Fulbright-Nehru Lecturing Professor at Rutgers during 2013-14.

K Subbaraje Urs

K.  Subbaraje Urs is an Associate Fellow at NCAER, with more than 24 years of experience in applied economic research, socio-economic and industrial research. His core areas of research are large-scale surveys, particularly in developing the survey instrument, calculating the sample size, and identifying gaps in primary and secondary data. He has worked on both large-scale household and industrial surveys with NCAER. He has been associated with several projects including the study on Integrated Child Development Services, Rural Economic & Demographic Survey, non-conventional energy sources programme, Business Expectations Survey (BES) and Market Information Survey of Households (MISH).