Sourabh B Paul
Assistant Professor
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Indian Institutes of Technology, Delhi
India
Biography
Sourabh Paul has joined the department in November 2012. He received PhD in economics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and MS in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Sourabh's work broadly focuses on how some recent changes in the Indian economy have affected the most vulnerable sections of Indian society. His research encompasses issues such as castes and labour mobility, distributional aspects of trade policy, preferences, nutrition, gender, and violence, among others.
Research Interest
Trade and Development, Applied Econometrics, Labour Economics, Health and Nutrition
Publications
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Breaking the Caste Barrier: Intergenerational Mobility in India (with Hnatkovska, V. and Lahiri, A.), Journal of Human Resources, Spring 2013; 48(2):435-473.
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Castes and Labor Mobility (with Hnatkovska, V. and Lahiri, A.), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April, 2012; 4(2): 274-307.
