Amaresh Dubey is currently Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Senior Consultant, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). He is Co-PI for the India Human Development Survey. He has earlier been Senior Fellow at NCAER, and on the faculty of North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. He has been visiting Researcher/Professor at Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi Centre; University of Manchester; Queen’s University and University of Ulster, Belfast; University of East Anglia, Norwich; University of Maryland, College Park; and Aarhus Business School and Aarhus University, Aarhus.
His research interests include poverty assessment, human development, education and labour markets. He has published five books and monographs (three co-authored and two co-edited), including the widely acclaimed monograph on poverty, Counting the Poor: Where are the Poor in India? He has also published several articles and papers in peer-reviewed international and national journals and edited volumes. He has worked on several policy papers and project reports for Department for International Development, the World Bank, various Ministries of Government of India, and State Governments. He has served on Central and State government committees including as Member of the Special Task Force for identifying the special development needs of the Jammu Region (Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India).
He received his MA in Economics from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and his PhD in Economics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
Ruchi Jain is an Associate Fellow at NCAER. She is a demographer by training and has received PhD and MPhil degrees in population studies from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. Her primary research interests are in public health, gender, reproductive and sexual health and migration. At NCAER, she has worked on various projects like IDRC, IHDS, and Rural Housing. Currently, she is working with the National Data Innovation Centre. Her doctoral work focused on assessing behaviours of the single migrant women in Delhi and its impact on their sexual and mental health. She is a recipient of the UGC-NET fellowship for lectureship. She was also awarded JR Rele award for the best research paper. She has also published high impact articles in peer-reviewed journals.
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.
