Pallavi Choudhuri is a Senior Fellow and the Deputy Director at the NCAER-National Data Innovation Center (NDIC). Her primary research interests are in the areas of social protection, informality, poverty, employment, and gender. Previously, at NDIC, she has led experiments on measurement gaps in income and consumption data and women’s paid and unpaid work. She is part of the core research team for the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS), involved with the design and implementation of the third wave of the survey.
Her work has been published in both international and domestic journals, along with contributions to Indian (English language) newspapers. She is the lead editor of the book, “India’s Social and Economic Transformation in the 21st Century”, an edited volume of articles using data from various rounds of the IHDS, published by Routledge (2023).
She is an active member of several national and international organizations in economics and demography and has also served on government committees during my work at NCAER.
Prior to joining NCAER, Choudhuri taught courses in Economics at the Grand Valley State University in Michigan as a Visiting Assistant Professor. She received my PhD. in Economics from the University of Wyoming.
Jaya Koti is a Research Analyst at NCAER, working with the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) and India Human Development Survey (IHDS)-III. She holds a Master’s Degree in Rural Development from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). She has worked on various projects like “Under Nutrition and Public Policy in India”, “India Human Development Survey”, etc. Her expertise lies in data preparation, cleaning and analysis, and presenting. She has worked with large data sets such as the NSS, NFHS, and IHDS. She primarily works with different statistical softwares and operating systems, including STATA, SPSS and CSPro.
Dinesh Kumar Tiwari is a Fellow at NCAER. He is an anthropologist with rich experience of primary data collection for large-scale social surveys, qualitative interviews, and experimental data collection, with a special focus on field management, monitoring and supervision, and ensuring data quality. He is part of the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC), and is currently engaged in co-ordination, trainings, supervision, data collection and field management for Round 3 of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) project. He has earlier also undertaken these tasks for the IHDS round II (2011-12) and Migration Survey (IHDS-II-M). He has also worked on conceptualising and implementing experimental research for the Delhi Metropolitan Area Study (DMAS) and the Delhi NCR Coronavirus Telephone Survey (DCVTS). Prior to joining NCAER, he has worked with various reputed research organisations like the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, the World Bank, and the Center de Sciences Humaines, Embassy of France (Palanpur Study). His areas of interest include migration studies, ethnographic research, public health, and experimental economics.
Deepa. S is an Executive at NCAER. She has been working as a Project Assistant with the IHDS project and NDIC. She has specialised in secretarial work, and event management like internal team and survey management work, and data validation. She is also proficient in the applications of Excel, Word, and Foxpro, designing and re-formatting of questionnaires in Excel, and translation work. She is involved in updating project-related information, and arrangements for conferences, seminars and roundtables. She has a BA from Delhi University and an advanced diploma in Computer Application from DICS, Delhi.
