Pallavi Choudhuri is a Professor and Deputy Director at the NCAER–National Data Innovation Center (NDIC). Her research focuses on social protection, informality, poverty, employment, and gender. As part of the core research team for the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS), she contributed to the design and implementation of its third wave.
Her work has been published in international journals such as World Development and the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology (forthcoming), alongside contributions to prominent Indian newspapers, including the Economic Times, Indian Express, and The Hindu. She is also the lead editor of India’s Social and Economic Transformation in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2023).
Dr. Choudhuri is an active member of professional economics and demography associations and has served on various government committees during her tenure at NCAER. Previously, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. She holds a Ph.D. 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.
