Vikash Vaibhav

Assistant Professor

Assistant Dean (Admissions)

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).

Publications

Journal Publications:

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

· 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).

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

Newspaper articles and Opinion pieces:

· 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).

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

· 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).

· 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).

· 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).

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

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

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

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

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