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Ph.D. (Economics) (IGIDR), Mumbai, India.

B.E. (Production Engineering) Birla Institute of Technology, India.

Vikash Vaibhav

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Ph.D. (Economics) (IGIDR), Mumbai, India.

B.E. (Production Engineering) Birla Institute of Technology, India.

Biography

Vikash Vaibhav is an Assistant Professor at JSLH. Prior to this he was associated with IWWAGE, New Delhi, and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar School of Economics (BASE), Bengaluru. He has completed his doctoral thesis from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. Prior to his doctoral pursuit he received his engineering degree from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi. He also worked as an Assistant Manager at Tata Motors Limited, Jamshedpur.

Dr. Vaibhav is passionate about important developmental questions. His various interest include questions of regional disparity, poverty & inequality, rural industrialization, education, discrimination. His core competency lies is in India’s unit-record dataset, and advanced statistical techniques.

In his leisure time, he loves to read non-fiction books, and listen to Ghazals. He has participated, and completed, three full marathons (Mumbai).

Dr. Vaibhav is interested in questions of

  • Development Economics
  • Regional growth & disparity
  • Economics of Education
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Impact Evaluation
  • Poverty & Inequality
  • Labour Economics
  • Corporate Finance
  • Business Histor
  • Quantitative Skills
  • Economics
  • Statistics for Economics
  • Development Economics
  • Public Economics
  • Labour Economics
  • Quantitative Techniques for Economics

CM says UP will be largest economy if BJP wins. Data shows unlikely. (Feb. 3, 2022). The Print (Co-author: Varun K. Das and Akhilesh K. Verma).

Rise of Gorakhpur, fall of Mathura- How UP’s temple towns contribute to economy. (Feb. 10, 2022) The Print (Co-author: Akhilesh K. Verma).

A tale of two Bundelkhands: UP cuts a sorry figure compared to MP in all sectors. (Feb. 17, 2022) The Print (Co-author: Shraddha Yadav and Varun K. Das).

State-size and Economic Growth: Evidence from State Reorganization in India (Forthcoming) Indian Economic Review. (Co-author: K.V. Ramaswamy).

Prosperous Maharashtra, Karnataka hide a disparity within- Development is not for all. (Feb. 26, 2021), The Print, (Co-author: Varun K. Das).

The old BIMARU states have new boom town, but only in pockets. (March 30, 2021), The Print, (Co-author: Varun K. Das).

2021 Noida is growing, Ghaziabad is fading. The story of Uttar Pradesh’s two boom towns. (Aug. 6, 2021), The Print, (Co-author: Varun K. Das).

Northeast needs to boost its economy. Even Assam has failed to participate in India’s growth. (Dec. 13, 2021), The Print (Co-author: Varun K. Das).

Revising the definition of MSMEs: Who will benefit from it (2020) Indian Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 63(1), pp. 119-126, (Co-author: R. Nagaraj).

Why MSME package won’t make small businesses atma nirbhar (July 27, 2020), Mint, (Co-author: R. Nagaraj).

Covid Times: What the tractor-sales boom signals, Financial Express (Sept. 23, 2020) (Co-author: Varun K. Das).

Investment under Uncertainty and Capital Market Imperfections in India (2017) Journal of Quantitative Economics, Vol. 15(2), pp. 265-289, (Co-author: Vikash Gautam).
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