PRADEEP KUMAR CHOUDHURY Room No. 342, School of Social Science II Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi-110067, India Tel. (Office): +91 11 26738956 Mobile: +91 9716866068 Email: pradeepchoudhury@mail.jnu.ac.in http://www.jnu.ac.in/facultystaff/showprofile.asp?sendusername=pradeepchoudhury Current Position: Assistant Professor in Economics of Education, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, India (August, 2015 till date) Education: Ph.D. in Economics of Education (2007 2013) Department of Educational Finance, National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi Title of thesis: An Economic Analysis of Demand for Higher Education in India: A Study of Engineering Education in Delhi Adviser: Professor Jandhyala B G Tilak M.A. in Economics (2004 2006), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India (First Division with Distinction) B.A. (with Honours) in Economics (2001 2004), Fakir Mohan University, Odisha, India (First Division with Distinction) Research Interests: Economics of Education, Educational Inequality, Education and Health, Applied Econometrics Teaching Interests: Publications: Economics of Education, Developmental Economics, Econometrics, Research Methodology I. Journals Role of Private Sector in Medical Education and Human Resource Development for Health in India, Economic and Political Weekly, 51(3): 71-79, January 2016 http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/3/special-articles/role-private-sector-medical-education-andhuman-resource-development Page 1 of 7
Growth of Engineering Education in India: Status, Issues and Challenges, Higher Education for the Future, 3(1): 93-107, Sage Publications, January 2016 http://hef.sagepub.com/content/3/1/93.abstract Explaining the Role of Parental Education in the Regional Variation of Infant Mortality in India, Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2(3): 544-572, Wiley Publications, September 2015 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 002/app5.97/abstract Gender Discrimination in Employment and Earnings of Engineering Graduates in India, Journal of Educational planning and Administration, 29(3): 225-246, July 2015 Growth of Engineering Education in Delhi: Trends, Patterns, and Challenges, IASSI Quarterly: Contributions to Indian Social Science, Journal of Indian Association of Social Science Institutions 33 (Nos. 2-4): 113-125, April-December 2014 An Economic Analysis of Demand for Higher Education in India: A Study of Engineering Education in Delhi, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, 27(3): 311-19, July 2013 Determinants of Employment Probabilities and Expected Earnings of Engineering Graduates: An Empirical Study in Delhi, India, Journal of Income and Wealth, 35(2): 131-146, July-December 2013 Fiscal Deficit and Public Debt of State Governments in India: Causality and Co-integration, Indian Journal of Economics, 89(354): 345 56, January 2009 (with L. Krishna Veni) II. Book Chapters "Growth and Development of Engineering Education in India" in Indian Higher Education At a Crossroads (Eds. Khwaja M. Shahid and Bhanu Pratap Pritam), Kalpaz Publications, Delhi: 2015 Explaining Gender Differentials in the Employment of Engineering Graduates in India in Gender and Education from Different Angles (Eds. Malgorzata Jarecka-zyluk and Oliver Holz), LIT Verlag, Germany: 2014 Education Vouchers Scheme in India: Paper to Practice in Elementary Education in India (Eds. Rajive Kumar and Narendra Kumar), Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, Delhi: 2014 Public Financing of Technical Education in India: Issues and Challenges in Higher Education in India (Eds. Rajive Kumar and Narendra Kumar), Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, Delhi: 2013 Funds Flow Mechanism and Its Utilization under SSA Programme: A Case Study of Bhadrak District in Orissa in Millennium Development Goals and India: Cases Addressing Performance, Prospects and Challenges (Eds. R. K. Mishra and Jayasree Raveendrean), Allied Publishers, Hyderabad: 2011 Page 2 of 7
Growth of Engineering Education in India: Causes and Patterns in Education and Inclusive Development in India (Ed. L. N. Dash), Regal Publications, New Delhi: 2010 Financing of Education: A Critical Outlook on Students Loan in Business and Development Dynamics Issues in India (Eds. V. Seshaiah and T. Tripathy), Icfai University Press, Hyderabad: 2009 III. Chapter in Knowledge Based Volume A Unit on "Demand for Educational Services" for the M.A. (Economics) course Economics of Social Security and Environment, Indira Gandhi National Open University, 2016. IV. Book Reviews Paper under Review: Linking Education Policy to Labor Market Outcomes by Tazeen Fasih (World Bank Publication) in Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 52(3): 549-551, July 2010 The Economic Analysis of universities: Strategic Group and Positioning by Susanne Warning (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited) in Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, 23 (1): 82-85, January 2009 Economic Development, Education and Transnational Corporations by Mark Hanson (Rutledge Publication) in Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, 22(2): 236-239, April 2008 Change and Transformation in Ghana s Publicly Funded Universities: A Study of Experiences, Lessons and Opportunities by Takyiwaa Manuh, Sulley Gariba and Joseph Budu (Oxford Publication) in Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, 22(1):102-104, January 2008 What Students Tell about the Quality of Engineering Education in India, Quality Assurance in Education, Emerald Publications Work in Progress: Pattern and Determinants of the Household Expenditure on Engineering Education: findings from Delhi, India What Determines Students Choice for Institutions and Courses of Study? A Case of Delhi Engineering Graduates Does Vocational Education and Training Help in Getting Jobs in India? Evidences from NSSO Data Effect of School Quality on Dropout Decision: Evidence from Private and Government Schooling in India, with Soham Sahoo Page 3 of 7
Invited Talks: 2015: Economics of Education: Disciplinary Progress, Challenges and Policy Discourse, (National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development, Delhi); Quantitative Research Methods and Hands on Exercise on SPSS (Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut); Access and Equity Issues in Education (Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, Delhi); Gender Issues in Engineering Education (Effective Quality Upgradation Assistance for Technical Education, Delhi); Autonomy, Accountability and Accreditation in Higher Education (National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development, Delhi); Quantitative Research Methods (Delhi Technological University, Delhi) 2014: Higher Education in India: Prominent Issues and Possible Answers ( Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, Delhi); Financing Education and PPP (JNU, Delhi) Conference/Seminar Presentations: 2015: 6 th Annual International Conference of the Comparative Education Society of India (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India); 4th CESP-CAS Young Scholars' Seminar (JNU, Delhi) 2014: International Conference and Workshop on Education and Gender (Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey); 5 th Annual International Conference of Comparative Education Society of India (University of Delhi, Delhi); 51 st Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (Punjabi University, Patiala, India); 3 rd CESP-CAS Young Scholars' Seminar (JNU, Delhi); Annual Conference of Indian Association for Research in National Income and Wealth (Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute, Ahmedabad, India) 2013: Golden Jubilee Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India); International Seminar on Education for what and for whom? (OKD Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati, India); Graduate Student s Seminar of Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies (JNU, Delhi); International Conference of the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies (Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi) 2012: International Conference on Disability-Inclusive MDGs and Aid Effectiveness (UNESCAP and Leonard Cheshire Disability Conference, Bangkok, Thailand); International Conference of Centre for Development Economics and Innovation Studies, (Punjabi University and Indialics, Patiala, India); 3 rd Annual International Conference of Comparative Education Society of India, Jammu University, Jammu, India) 2011: Annual Conference of the Development Studies Association and European Association of Development Research and Training (University of York, York, UK); Global Conclave of Young Scholars of Indian Education (NUEPA, Delhi) 2010: 8 th GLOBELICS International Conference (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia); National Seminar on Financing Elementary Education in States: Fund Flow Pattern and Utilization of Resources under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (NUEPA, Delhi); Fourth Development Convention (Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India) 2009: National Conference on Financing of Higher Education Issues and Policy Analysis (Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India) Page 4 of 7
2008: 91 st Annual Conference of Indian Economic Association (Mohon Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India); Golden Jubilee Conference of Indian Society of Labour Economics (Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow, India); International Conference of Association of Asian Scholars and Department of South-West Asia (Punjabi University, Patiala, India) Academic Award/Fellowship/Grant/Organisation of Academic Programmes: o Research Grant: Effectiveness of Selected Scholarship Schemes for the Improvement in Access and Retention of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Students in Odisha, Research Grant sanctioned by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, November 2015 October 2016 (INR 750,000) Awards: o Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) for lectureship in Economics, June 2012 o Second Prize in General Knowledge Competition in Bhadrak College, 2003 o Fellowship: Junior (2007 2009) & Senior (2009 2012) Research Fellowship, NUEPA, Delhi o Merit-Cum-Means scholarship for both under graduation and post graduation courses (2001-06) o Other Grants: Travel Grant for conference/workshop etc.: Department for International Development (DFID) and Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), 2015; Open Society Foundation, 2015; EDGE: EDucation and GEnder, 2014; Leonard Cheshire Disability, 2012; Development Studies Association (DSA) and European Association of Development Research and Training Institute (EADI), 2011; Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (GLOBELICS), 2010 Academic Programmes Organised: o Coordinator, Prinicipals Workshop (12-16 October 2015); Converner, Graduate Seminar (15-16 September 2015); Coordinator, Orientation Programme on Social Science Research (24-29 March 2014) Participation in Specialized Training Courses/E-Learning Courses: IZA/DFID Short Course on Program Evaluation and the Labor Markets in South Asia: Evidence and Policy Lessons conference, Dhaka (Bangladesh), 2015 Summer course on Innovative Financing for Education: Arguments, Options and Implications, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary), 2015 Workshop on Higher Education and Employability, NUEPA, Delhi, 2015 Third Young Scholar Program on Human Development, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, 2008 Page 5 of 7
E-Learning Courses: o Economics of Education for Policy Makers: Part II, World Bank Institute, 2014; Policies for Growth, World Bank Institute, 2013; E-Business Strategies, Asian Development Bank, 2007 Teaching Experience: Currently teaching Economics of Education and Quantitative Research Methods to MPhil and PhD students of the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU Taught the course Science, Engineering and Social Responsibility to PhD Scholars of the Department of Humanities, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, March to May 2013 (as a guest faculty) Taught the Micro Economics and Macro Economics to the Distance Post Graduate Students of Economics, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Delhi, September to November 2013 (as an Academic Counsellor) Field Survey Experience: Conducted and supervised student and institutional level survey in 11 engineering colleges in Delhi, India from July, 2009 to April, 2010 (funded by the Stanford University, USA and NUEPA, Delhi). The data was collected for an international comparative study titled Potential Economic and Social Impact of Rapid Expansion of Higher Education in the World s Largest Developing Economies, covering Brazil, Russia, India and China. Professional Service: Referee for International Journal of Commerce and Management, Emerald Group Publishing, 2014 Referee for the 13th Globelics International Conference, 2015 Computer Skills: Statistical / Computational Softwares: Stata, SPSS, E-Views Others: Microsoft Office Previous Work Experience: Assistant Professor, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi, February 2013 August 2015 Research Fellow, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, October 2012 February 2013 Consultant, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, August 2012 October 2012 Page 6 of 7
Research Associate in Economics, ICFAI University, Hyderabad, April 2006 July 2007 Other Information: Citizenship: Indian; Country of Residence for the past 5 years: India Date of Birth: 22 nd May 1983; Gender: Male Languages Known: English, Hindi, Odia Permanent Address: Naripur, Anijo, B.T.Pur, Bhadrak, Odisha, PIN - 756115 (Last updated: January, 2016) Page 7 of 7