Dr. SUBHASISH DEY CV November- 2016

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CURRENT POSITION AND AFFILIATION:

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics, New College of , London, since September 2016

Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester, UK, since October 2016

EDUCATION

 2011- 2016: PhD in Economics from the University of Manchester. Thesis title- “Essays on the World’s Largest Public Works Programme” (Completed July 2016).

 2008-2009: MA in Development Studies from ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. [Distinction and Best MA Research Paper Award.]

 April 2004-October 2004: Diploma in and Community Service (Distinction)

 1998-2001: M.Sc. in Economics (Distinction)

 1995-1998: B.Sc. Economics (Honours) with Mathematics (Distinction)

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION  , Labour Economics, , Micro-, Poverty Studies, Social and

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 Dey, Subhasish (2014): Can MNREGA improve credit worthiness of participating ? Ideas for India, The Economics and Policy Portal of International Growth Centre, India (Central).

 Dey, Subhasish, Arjun Bedi (2010): The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Birbhum, Economic and Political Weekly October 9, 2010, Vol. XLV No. 41

WORKING PAPERS AND COMPLETED WORKS

 Dey, Subhasish, Katsushi Imai (2016): Workfare as “Collateral”: The case of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, India, Economics Discussion Paper 1412, University of Manchester (Revised and Resubmitted in World Development)

 Dey, Subhasish (2010): ‘Evaluating the Impact of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: The Case of Birbhum District, West Bengal, India, ISS Working Paper No. 490, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, January 2010.

 Dey, Subhasish, Kunal Sen (2016): Is Partisan Alignment Electorally Rewarding? Evidence from Village Council Elections in India, ESID Working Paper (R&R Journal of Development Economics)

 Dey, Subhasish, Arjun Bedi (2016): Falling Clientelism or Regime-Change Effect? Benefit Incidence of India’s Employment Guarantee Programme: A Panel Data Analysis from West Bengal, India. (Under review)

 Unnikrishnan, Vidhya, Subhasish Dey (2016): Does Matter For The Elderly Poor in India? Evidence From The Benefit Incidence Study of Indian Old Age Pension Scheme.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE (Since September 2011 to till date)

September 2016- Present: New College of Humanities, London (As Lecturer/Course Convenor)

Macroeconomics Principal (UG Second year); International Political Economy (UG Third year)

September 2011-August 2016: University of Manchester, UK (As Graduate Teaching Assistant)

Under graduate level: UK- ; UK- ; Introductory Statistics; Macro Economic Principles; Advanced Statistics; Development Economics-IIA; Development Economics-IIB; Micro Economic Principles; Applied Economics; Micro Economics-IIA; Business Economics.

Post graduate level: International Finance for Development, Economics of Development, Research Skills for - Quantitative methods, Economics analysis of the public sector, Development Macro Economics, Computer Lab session on STATA.

Supervision: Supervising five MA dissertations at Global Development Institute, University of Manchester within the discipline of development economics and international development in 2016.

AWARD, FELLOWSHIP AND RESEARCH GRANT

 Manchester Teaching Award for Best Postgraduate teacher in 2015-16.  Research Grant (€5000) from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (March 2015)  Royal Economic Society’s (RES) summer school Grant (£1000)-September 2013  Special Bursary Award (£2000) from University of Manchester–September 2013  BWPI, University of Manchester research grants (£3000) - June 2012.  Research grant (£6670) from ESID, University of Manchester - May 2012  Field work bursary support (£3500), University of Manchester- June 2012  Scholarship (€1200) from Istituto di Studi Economici e per l'Occupazione, Italy - May 2012  Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS), University of Manchester, UK for pursuing PhD  Netherlands Fellowship Programme- A Dutch Scholarship to complete MA in Development Studies.  Best MA Research Paper Award for 2008-09 at ISS, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY

 M-S Office, Bengali Word, STATA, Mat lab (Basic), LaTex, Scientific word End note.

CONFERENCE AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS

2017: American Economic Association Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL Scheduled in January 2017)

2016: Royal Economic Society PhD Conference at University of Westminster, London (January16); Development Studies Association Conference at (September 2016); ISI-Delhi (December 2016)

2015: King’s India Institute, Kings Collage London (May 2015); British Association of South Asian Studies, at University of Portsmouth (April 2015); 125th year Royal Economic Society conference, Manchester (March 2015); Global Development Institute, Manchester (October 2015); Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (November 2015); Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi and Kolkata)

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2014: Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi and Kolkata); Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester; Brown Bag Seminar Series at University of Manchester; PEGNet-2014, Lusaka, Zambia; 63rd French Economics Congress in Lyon, France; 2nd PhD Conference at University of Macedonia, Greece; University of Aberystwyth, Wales; ‘Development Economics Research Area Group’ seminar, University of Manchester; Royal Economics Society, PhD Conference at University College of London.

2013: “Economic Growth in West Bengal” at Indian Statistical Institute (Kolkata); Contemporary South seminar series, University of Oxford; Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester.

2012: “Development Dialogue 2012” at International Institute of (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Bangladesh Institute Development Studies (BIDS), Dhaka; South Asian Network of Economic Modeling (SANEM), Dhaka University, Bangladesh; 26th Annual Conference of British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS) at SOAS, University of London; Development RAG seminar at, University of Manchester (March 2012)

2010: “Development Dialogue-2010” PhD Student Conference at International Institute of Social Studies(ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, UGC, National Seminar at Viswa Bharati University, Santinikatan, India

SUMMER SCHOOL AND TRAINING

 Randomised Control Trial by Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, MIT at Aarhus University, Denmark (September 2013)  Experimental Development Economics- at London campus of University of East Anglia, UK. (May 2013)  Building the new global welfare- The search for stability in the worldwide economies and markets” at ISEO, Italy (Session conducted by the Nobel laureate Economists)- (June 2012)  Summer School, Titled- “Global , The Crisis and Development- New Direction in Development Cooperation” organized by CERES and International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. (June 2010)  Academic visit to ILO, UNRISD, WHO, RED CROSS at Geneva, Switzerland. (October 2009)

REFEREEING

 European Journal of Development Research, ESID working paper, University of Manchester

CONSULTANCY AND RESEARCH ASSIGMENT  Research collaboration and consultancy with Erasmus University Rotterdam (Continuing)  Researcher in DFID and University of Manchester joint research center “Effective State and Inclusive Development (ESID)”. (Continuing)  Research with UNU-WIDER, Helsinki to carry out systematic review on the impact of social protection programmes on various welfare outcomes. (Finished in January 2013)  Consultant in “Greater Manchester Poverty Commission” and prepared Greater Manchester Poverty Profile-2012 for Manchester City Council. (Finished in April 2012).  Consultant in the project “Poverty in North after Financial Crisis” commissioned by Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester.(Finished August 2012)  Research Assistant at International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, Hague), Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Worked in FP7 (European Commission Project), 3ie, NWO-WOTRO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), AusAID (Australian Agency for International Development). (Finished in 2011)

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LANGUAGE SKILLS  Bengali (Native) ; English (Reading, Writing and Speaking: Fluent); Hindi (Reading, Writing: Basics; Speaking: Fluent); Urdu (Speaking: Basics)

MEMBERSHIP

Royal Economics Society, American Economic Association, British Association of South Asian Studies, Development Studies Association-UK

First PhD essay: (Revised and Resubmitted in World Development)

Title: Workfare as “Collateral”: The case of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, India.

Abstract: This paper proposes the “credit” case for workfare to show that sustainable programme participation over many years serves as “collateral” for households’ acquisition of informal credit, leading to the improvement in economic security and poverty reduction in the context of NREGS in India. I first present a conceptual framework with model using the infinitely repeated trilateral stage game among lenders, NREGA participants, and local politicians to underscore how participation in NREGS matters for securing informal credit from the local shop owners or moneylenders to tackle temporal adverse income spell and smooth out consumption shock. Using the three rounds panel in 2009-2012 based on our primary surveys in West Bengal, I then provide the robust evidence that the continuous programme participation significantly facilitated informal credit acquisition, increased income and consumption, and smoothed consumption. I use Fixed Effect-IV after propensity score matching (PSM) as most preferred estimation technique. My analysis suggests that policy makers should consider this long-term benefit of workfare in the impact evaluations of workfare programmes.

Second PhD essay: (R&R in Journal of Development Economics): Job Market Paper

Title: Is Partisan Alignment Electorally Rewarding? Evidence from Village Council Elections in India.

Abstract: Do ruling parties positively discriminate its own constituencies in allocating public resources? If they do, do they gain electorally in engaging in such a practice of partisan alignment? This paper tests whether partisan alignment exists in the allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in the state of West Bengal in India, and whether incumbent local governments (village councils) gain electorally in the practice of partisan alignment. Using a quasi-experimental research design, we find that the village council level ruling-party spends significantly more in their own party constituencies as compared to opponent constituencies. We also find strong evidence of electoral rewards in the practice of partisan alignment. However, we find that the results differ between the two main ruling political parties at the village council level in the state

Third PhD essay: (Under Review):

Title: Falling Clientelism or Regime-Change Effect? Benefit Incidence of India’s Employment Guarantee Programme: A Panel Data Analysis from West Bengal, India

Abstract: This paper discuses 'clientelism' as the politics of poor and also politics around poor. Our primary objective in this paper is to see, whether explicit political affiliation with the Village Council level ruling- party, helps the households to obtain additional benefits under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) of India over time. In reference to NREGS, we show how poor can ensure the benefit with an explicit political support to the ruling party and how ruling party ensures its re-election by distributing the benefit clientelistically.

REFERENCE: On Request

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