Ph.D.
Environmental Economics, Information Economics, Game Theory, Agricultural Economics, Economics of Labeling
Jawaharlal Nehru University: From 2004 onwards
Maitreyi College: 1991 - 2004
Editor, Agricultural Economics, July 2022 onwards.
Co-editor, Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, January 2012 onwards.
Fellowship to visit ETH Zurich, as a Visiting Scientist, April-June, 2022.
Founding Board Member, International Committee for Women in Agricultural Economics, 2020 onwards.
Member, Board of Directors, International Association of Agricultural Economists, 2022 onwards.
Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellowship, 2013-14.
NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) Fellowship to visit Tilburg University, under ICSSR-NWO India- Netherlands Social Science Scholar Exchanges, 2009-10.
Grant for participating in the European Summer School on Dynamic Models in Environment held at Venice, Italy, 2004.
External Expert, Scientific Committee, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, Government of India.
A database on gender-disaggregated information on agricultural economists and social scientists working in the area of agriculture and rural development, 2022, Sponsored by International Association of Agricultural Economists, IAAE.
Examining Contribution of Corporate Social Responsibility Expenditure in India towards Achieving Economic Development and Sustainable Development Goals, (2022-2024), sponsored by ICSSR.
Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility Expenditure in India: Effect of New Regulation Regarding Mandatory CSR (2015-2016), Sponsors: South Asian network of Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE).
Eliciting farmers’ preferences for drought tolerant rice seeds in India (2012-2014), Sponsors: International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA.
Strategic information transmission under rational models of social learning (with Sjak Smulders, Tilburg University, Netherlands).
Labeling genetically modified foods in India: Economic Consequences in Four Food Marketing channels (2008-09), Sponsors: International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA.
Labeling of GM Foods: An Experiment in India (2007), Sponsors: International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA.
Preparing Teaching Material in Environmental Economics with an International Dimension (2007-08), Sponsors: Vi UNCTAD.
The Economic Effects of Labeling GM Foods (2006), Sponsors: International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA.
1 Tax-Subsidy Policies in the Presence of Environmentally Aware Consumers, (with S. Gangopadhyay), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, 45 (2), 333-355, (2003).
2. Incentives for Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Mandate, Peer Pressure and Crowding-Out Effects, (with Madhu Khanna and Joe Sydlowski), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, (105), 102382 (2021).
3. Enhancing Energy Efficiency of Indian Industries: Effectiveness of the PAT Scheme (with Hena Oak), 2022, 113, 106220, Energy Economics.
4. Choice and Design of Regulatory Instruments in the Presence of Green Consumers,” Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, 30 (3), 345-368, (2008).
5. Information and Signaling Impacts of Labels: Experimental Evidence from India on GM Foods” (with S. Chakravarty, and B. Ramaswami), Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press, 1-22 (2013).
Corporate Social Responsibility: Motivations and Effectiveness in Developing Countries (with Madhu Khanna) International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2024 Vol. 18: No. 1-2, pp 123-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/101.00000165
Heterogeneous Effects of Obesity on Life Expectancy: A Global Perspective (with Yanhong Jin), Annual Review of Resource Economics 2023 15:1, 433- 554.
How will climate change affect ambient air pollution and what can policy-makers do now? Lessons from India (Avraham Ebenstein, Sangeeta Bansal, Sagnik Dey, Tanya Gupta, Kshitij Abhay Kakade, Avi Simhon) Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 39, Issue 4, Winter 2023, Pages 810–827, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grad041
Does research performance explain the “leaky pipeline” in Indian academia? A study of agricultural and applied economics (with Viswanathan, B., & Meenakshi, J. V.), 2023, Agricultural Economics, 54, 274–288. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12744