Pallavi Choudhuri

Pallavi Choudhuri

Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC)

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.

Journal | Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research
Urban Exclusion: Rethinking Social Protection in the Wake of the Pandemic in India.
Pallavi Choudhuri | Santanu Pramanik | Sonalde Desai
2023

PAPER | NCAER NDIC
Urban Exclusion: Rethinking Social Protection in the Wake of the Pandemic in India
Pallavi Choudhuri, Santanu Pramanik, Sonalde Desai
2022

PAPER | NCAER
India’s Employment Challenges and the Demand for Skills
Pallavi Choudhuri
May 2021

Journal | World Development
Lack of Access to Clean Fuel and Piped Water and Children’s Educational Outcomes in Rural India
Pallavi Choudhuri | Sonalde Desai
2021

Journal | Journal of Cleaner Production
Gender inequalities and household fuel choice in India, Journal of Cleaner Production
Pallavi Choudhuri | Sonalde Desai
2020

Measurement Brief | NCAER National Data Innovation Centre
Urban Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the Delhi NCR Coronavirus Telephone Survey, Rounds 1 and 2
Pallavi Choudhuri | Santanu Pramanik | Sonalde Desai
2020

Report | NCAER
Skilling India – No Time To Lose
Bornali Bhandari | Pallavi Choudhuri | Mousumi Das | Saurabh Bandyopadhyay | Ajaya Kumar Sahu, et al…
October 2018

Journal | Economic & Political Weekly
Is Disinvestment of Air India Appropriate?, Economic and Political Weekly
Pallavi Choudhuri | R. Venkatesan
2017

Report | NCAER
Building Synergies: Matching Business Reforms to Improved ‘Ease of Doing Business’.
Anushree Sinha | Rajesh Kumar Jaiswal | Pallavi Choudhuri | K Subbaraje Urs, et al
April 2017

Report | NCAER
The NCAER State Investment Potential Index (N-SIPI).
Indira Iyer | Poonam Munjal | Pallavi Choudhuri | Asrar Alam | K Subbaraje Urs, et al
March 2016

BOOK | Routledge
India’s Social and Economic Transformation in 21st Century

Pallavi Choudhuri, Sonalde Desai, Amaresh Dubey (eds.)
2023

Opinion | The Hindu Business Line
Fall and rise in women’s work participation
Sonalde Desai and Pallavi Choudhuri
March 8, 2024

OPINION | The Economic Times
Mind the gender gap
Pallavi Choudhuri
February 23, 2023

OPINION | The Hindu
Measuring women’s work participation: why it is important to get it right
Pallavi Choudhuri | Sonalde Desai
February 11, 2023

OPINION | Ideas for India
Urban exclusion: Rethinking social protection in India in the wake of Covid-19
Pallavi Choudhuri | Sonalde Desai | Santanu Pramanik
June 13, 2022

OPINION | The Indian Express
Why clean air and potable water has impact on education
Pallavi Choudhuri
June 7, 2021

Opinion | The Indian Express
A social registry linking Aadhaar to residence info can target aid to the vulnerable during a pandemic.
Pallavi Choudhuri | Sonalde Desai
November 28, 2020

  • Panelist, Niti-Aayog State Workshop Series on “Leveraging State Data Ecosystems for State and District-Level Policy and Planning”, Lucknow, November 2023
  • Chair, session on “Gender Inequality in Low and Middle Income Countries” at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2023, (New Orleans, LA)
  • Attended meetings of the Working Group for Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (HCES), MOSPI, New Delhi (HCES, Working Group member), 2023
  • Presenter, 17th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, hosted by ISI-Delhi, December 2022, New Delhi
  • Chair, session on “The income pathway: Wages, employment, and transfers” at workshop on “Affordability of Healthy Diets in South Asia: Challenges and Recommendation”, a CGIAR – IFPRI initiative, New Delhi, December 2022.
  • Presenter, 5th IZA Labor Statistics Workshop, July 2022 (scheduled online)
  • Presenter, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2022, (Atlanta, GA)
  • Presenter, 3rd Economics Conference, Ahmedabad University, 2022
  • Presenter, the 16th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, hosted by ISI-Delhi, December 2021 (online)
  • Presenter, 2021 International Population Conference, hosted by IUSSP, December 2021 (online)
  • Presenter, Invited Seminar hosted jointly by the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) and Center for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics (DSE), 19 August 2021, New Delhi (online)
  • Presenter, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2021, (online)
  • Commentator, Webinar on Time Use data and Its Uses, WEDGE of University of Maryland and EMERGE of UC San Diego (online)
  • Attended 5th meeting of the Sub-Committee 2 of the Standing Committee on Economic Statistics (SCES), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI), New Delhi, March 2021
  • Presenter, 6th International Conference on South Asian Economic Development, February 2021, New Delhi (online)
  • Presenter, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2020, Washington DC (online)
  • Attended meetings of the Working Group for Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (HCES), (MOSPI), New Delhi (HCES, member), 2020
  • Presenter, Sustainability and Development Conference at the University of Michigan, October 2019, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Presenter, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2019, Austin, Texas (poster)
  • Participant, Working Group session on Research Agenda at the Gender, Unpaid Work and Care: Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hosted by ICRW & VVGNL, New Delhi, 8th March 2019
  • Attended the All India Workshop of Trainers for NSS 77th Round & Time Use Survey, organised by MOSPI at Guwahati
  • Attended Development Matters Roundtable discussion at the Center for Global Development, Washington D. C., USA, June 28, 2018
  • Presenter, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018, Denver, Colorado (poster)
  • Presentation, NCAER News Skills At Work report at the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, New Delhi, April 19, 2018
  • Attended, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, & Learning (MEAL) workshop organized by SDPI – IDRC at UNESCAP, Bangkok, July 2017
  • Presenter, “Building Synergies: Matching Business Reforms to Improved Ease of Doing Business”, New Delhi – February 2017, IPE Hyderabad – January, 2017
  • Panelist, 7th CII Global Summit on Skill Development, Session: “Enabling Policy: Towards Quality & Inclusion”, Hyderabad, November, 2016
  • Presenter, “Skilling India: India’s 3E Challenge of Education, Employability, and Employment”, New Delhi, October 2016.

Education

  • PhD Economics, University of Wyoming (U.S.A.), 2014
  • Masters Economics, Calcutta University, 2002
  • B.Sc. (Honors) Lady Brabourne College (Calcutta University), 2000

Research Interest

  • Economic Policy
  • Financial Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Human Development

Work Experience

  • April 2024 – Present, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, NCAER-NDIC
  • April 2022 – March 2024, Senior Fellow, NCAER-NDIC
  • April 2018 – March 2022, Fellow, NCAER
  • April 2018 – March 2022 Fellow, NCAER
  • 2015 – March 2018 Associate Fellow, NCAER
  • 2012 – 2015 Visiting Assistant Professor, Grand Valley State University (Michigan, USA)
  • 2007 – 2008 Instructor, University of Wyoming (Wyoming, USA)
  • 2007 – 2008 Research Assistant for Dr. Sherrill Shaffer
  • 2004 – 2007 Teaching Assistant, University of Wyoming (Wyoming, USA)
  • 2001-2003 Financial Consultant, Standard Chartered Bank, Kolkata, India