Faculty Details
Assistant Professor
amrita@gidr.ac.in, amritaeconomics@gmail.com
Amrita Ghatak | Ph.D. (Economics)
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Academic qualification:
- Post-doctoral Fellowship: Worked as a post-doctoral scholar at the Global Change Programme, Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2013 on the topic: Economics of Low-Carbon Growth of Kolkata City.
- Ph.D in Economics: Submitted in 2012 and awarded in 2013 from University of Mysore through Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore. Thesis title: Health, Labour Supply and Wages: A Study in West Bengal. She is a recipient of the VKRV Rao Prize for the best thesis in Economics submitted during 2009-2014 at ISEC, Bangalore.
- MA in Economics: Graduated in 2005, University of Kalyani, West Bengal.
- BA (Honours) in Economics: Graduated in 2003, Kalyani Mahavidyalaya, University of Kalyani, West Bengal.
- Intersectionality in the development process encompassing health, labour, environment and women, using both quantitative and qualitative techniques.
- Microeconomics, Mathematical economics, Behavioural economics, Research methodology - quantitative and qualitative, Perspectives in labour research, Gender economics
- August 2023 to January 2025 – Associate Professor of Economics, Vidyashilp University, courses designed/offered: Microeconomics, Mathematical economics, Behavioural economics, Research methodology and statistics, Gender economics at the UG (Honours – 4 year-degree) level
- August 2022 to July 2023 – Guidance of
MS thesis for student at IISER Kolkata.
- January to June, 2021 – Teaching of
Behavioral Economics (one semester) as a visiting faculty– a core paper for the
MA 4th semester students at Pandit
Deendayal Energy University (formerly known as Pandit Deendayal Petroleum
University
- 2016 to 2020 – Teaching labour economics
perspectives and socio-legal research methods as part of the Diploma in Labour
Law and Practices at the Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute, Ahmedabad.
- August 2012 to November 2012 – Research
Associate at the Agricultural Development and Rural Transformation Centre,
Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, Project title: Outlook in
Agriculture, Department of Agriculture, Government of Karnataka
- August 2011 to August 2012 – Research
Analyst at the Population Research Centre, Institute for Social and Economic
Change, Bangalore. Project title: Building Knowledge Base on Ageing in India,
Sponsor: UNFPA
- June 2010 to March 2011 – Research
Associate at Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi. Project title:
Strengthening of Tobacco- control Effort through Innovative Partnerships and
Strategies, Sponsor: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- December 2005 to August 2006 – Teaching Economics as Guest Lecturer at the Under Graduate (Honours) level at Kalyani Mahavidyalaya (College) under University of Kalyani
- Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE)
- Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE)
- Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (AAERE)
- Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru Campus – Curriculum Committee (Board of Studies)
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Title: Legal Protection for Domestic Workers in COVID-19 Pandemic Times in India: Employers’ Perspectives, The Indian Journal of Industrial Relations: A Review of Economic & Social Development, Vol. 58, Issue. No. 3, pp. 386-402
Authors: Amrita Ghatak and Kingshuk Sarkar
Published Year: 2023 -
Title: Safety at Workplace, Health and Working Conditions of Workers in the Manufacturing Sector in Ahmedabad, Anvesak, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 67-85
Author: Amrita Ghatak
Published Year: 2022 -
Title: The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Workers in India in Indranil De, Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan and Kingshuk Sarkar (eds) COVID-19 Pandemic, Public Policy, and Institutions in India: Issues of Labour, Income, and Human Development, Oxon and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, pp. 113-128
Authors: Amrita Ghatak and Kingshuk Sarkar
Published Year: 2022 -
Title: Economic Implications of Air Pollution Related Non Communicable Diseases on Urban Households in India, in Nguyen Tien Phat and Bui Huu Lo (Eds) A PATHWAY TOWARD CARBON NEUTRALITY IN ASIA: The 11th Congress of the Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics Proceedings (19-20 August 2022, Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam), College of Economics, Law and Government University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City & Information and Communications Publishing House. pp. 673-693. ISBN: 978-604-80-7270-4
Author: Amrita Ghatak
Published Year: 2022 -
Title: Status of Domestic Workers in India: A Tale of Two Cities, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 65, Issue. 3
Authors: Amrita Ghatak and Kingshuk Sarkar
Published Year: 2022 -
Title: Health in North Eastern States of India: An Analysis of Economic Vulnerabilities in Utpal Kumar De, Manoranjan Pal, Premananda Bharati (ed) Issues on Health and Healthcare in India-Focus on the North Eastern Region, Singapore; Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, pp. 127-161.
Authors: Amrita Ghatak and N. Lalitha
Published Year: 2018 -
Title: Quality of Publication in International Context in Sukhadeo Thorat and Samar Verma (Eds.), Social Science Research in India: Status, Issues and Policies, New Delhi: Oxford University Press & Indian Council of Social Science Research, pp. 312-339.
Authors: N. Lalitha and Amrita Ghatak
Published Year: 2017 -
Title: Can Low-Carbon Development be Pro- poor? The Case of Kolkata, India's, Environment and Urbanization, 29 (2), 2016, pp.1-20.
Authors: Colenbrander, Sarah, Andy Gouldson, Joyashree Roy, Niall Kerr, Sayantan Sarkar, Stephen Hall, Andrew Sudmant, Amrita Ghatak, Debalina Chakravarty and Diya
Published Year: 2016 -
Title: Impact of Health on Labour Supply and Wages: A case of West Bengal Agricultural Workers, Journal of Health Management, vol. 16, No. 3
Authors: Amrita Ghatak and S. Madheswaran
Published Year: 2014 -
Title: Impact of Health on Farm Production in West Bengal, India, Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XXXVI, No. 1
Authors: Amrita Ghatak and S. Madheswaran
Published Year: 2013 -
Title: Health Labour Supply and Wages: A Critical Review of Literature, Indian Economic Journal, Vol. 57, No. 4
Authors: Amrita Ghatak
Published Year: 2010
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Title: Does the pension programme help in achieving health outcomes and related capabilities among widows?: A case of Ganga Swarupa Aarthik Sahay Yojana in Gujarat
Authors: Amrita Ghatak, Itishree Pattnaik and Jharna Pathak
Working Paper No.: 267
Published Year and Month: April 2022 -
Title: Domestic Workers in Times of Covid – 19 Pandemic in India: The Employers' Perspectives and the Matter of Legal Protection
Author: Amrita Ghatak and Kingshuk Sarkar
Working Paper No.: 269
Published Year and Month: June 2022 -
Title: Status of Domestic Workers and the institutional support for them in India: Evidence from NSS 2014
Authors: Amrita Ghatak and Kingshuk Sarkar
Working Paper No.: 255
Published Year and Month: March 2019
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Title: Economic Vulnerability of Women in Rural Agriculture Sector: Evidence from India's National Sample Survey 2013
Author: Amrita Ghatak
Working Paper No.: 257
Published Year and Month: September 2019
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Title: India's Social Science Research Publications from an International Perspective
Authors: N. Lalitha and Amrita Ghatak
Working Paper No.: 236
Published Year and Month: September 2016
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Title: Burden of Diseases due to Air Pollution in Urban India
Authors: Amrita Ghatak, Debasish Nandy and Suddhasil Siddhanta
Working Paper No.: 234
Published Year and Month: July 2016 -
Title: Occupational Health among Workers in the Informal Sector in India
Authors: N. Lalitha and Amrita Ghatak
Working Paper No.: 228
Published Year and Month: September 2015
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Title: Environmental Regulations and Compliance in the Textile Dyes Sector of Gujarat: Case of Ahmedabad Cluster
Authors: Amrita Ghatak
Publication Type / Year: Occasional Paper No. 5/2022
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Title: Perils of lockdown and informal sector workers: Reflections in the time of Covid-19’.
Authors: Amrita Ghatak and Kingshuk Sarkar
Source: Vikalp: People’s Perspective for Change; Weblink: https://www.vikalp.ind.in/2020/04/perils-of-lockdown-and-informal-sector.html?m=0&fbclid=IwAR3S7ZmVwTGKxWYvdmu3cAZQNhU_66neCazkbFKC5J4Cqp4LTRkLAz2sZNI
Published Year: 2020