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Somdeep Chatterjee

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
somdeep@iimcal.ac.in

Somdeep Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor of Economics at IIM Calcutta. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor at IIM Lucknow and FLAME University, Pune. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Houston. He also holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.


He is an applied microeconomist by training. His research interests are in the fields of empirical issues in development economics with a particular focus on the economics of education, labour, health, gender and human capital in general. Other than these, he takes a keen interest in the political economy of development such as public policy implementation, electoral behaviour as well as behavioural economics perspectives on public institution efficacies. He has experience of teaching courses on Indian Economy, Managerial Economics, Behavioral Economics, Applied Econometrics as well as Economics of Human Capital. He is a fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO). His research has appeared in journals like the Journal of the European Economic Association, Economica, World Development, Journal of Human Capital, Public Choice etc.

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भारत के सुरक्षित मातृत्व कार्यक्रम के अनपेक्षित सकारात्मक परिणाम

भारत के प्रमुख मातृ स्वास्थ्य हस्तक्षेप, जननी सुरक्षा योजना के माध्यम से संस्थानों में प्रसव करवाने का विकल्प चुनने वाली महिलाओं को सशर्त नकद हस्तांतरण उपलब्ध कराया गया है। इस अध्ययन में चटर्जी और पोद...

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Sweet cash: Women’s demand for healthcare in developing countries

Agrawal et al. explore the role of gender-based preferences for demand of healthcare. Using CPHS data they find that the positive income shock – generated by a change in the mandated rates of contri...

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The unintended positive consequences of India’s safe motherhood programme

India’s flagship maternal health intervention, Janani Suraksha Yojana, provided conditional cash transfers to women opting for institutional deliveries. In this study, Chatterjee and Poddar document...

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किसान क्रेडिट कार्ड कार्यक्रम: ऋण की उपलब्ध्ता का विस्तार या ऋण का प्रसार?

किसान क्रेडिट कार्ड कार्यक्रम – भारत में कृषि उधार में एक महत्वपूर्ण सुधार – का आरम्भ हुए लगभग 20 वर्ष हो गए हैं। हालांकि, लक्षित लाभार्थियों पर इसके प्रभाव का थोड़ा अनुभवजन्य साक्ष्य है। इस लेख में प...

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Kisan Credit Card programme: Expanded access to credit or expansion of credit?

Kisan Credit Card programme - a key reform in agricultural lending in India - has been operational for almost 20 years now. However, there is little empirical evidence of its impact on intended benefi...

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