Amaresh Dubey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amaresh Dubey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amaresh |
| FAMILY NAME | Dubey |
| SIGNATURE | DUBEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1574-5104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Wl-4798-Visualising the Invisible
The categorisation used by India’s labour force surveys have failed to capture three evolving dynamics of labour market. Firstly, the gender difference in amount of work provided toward economic activities and contribution to GDP is overstated at present because the PLFS poorly records goods production within households when unpaid workers do non-monetized work. Secondly, the decision-making sharing within small firms has been underemphasized, to…
The role of women’s empowerment on child nutrition in India
Hierarchical Modelling of Covid-19 Death Risk in India in the Early Phase of the Pandemic
We improve upon the modelling of India's pandemic vulnerability. Our model is multidisciplinary and recognises the nested levels of the epidemic. We create a model of the risk of severe COVID-19 and death, instead of a model of transmission. Our model allows for socio-demographic-group differentials in risk, obesity and underweight people, morbidity status and other conditioning regional and lifestyle factors. We build a hierarchical multilevel m…
Economic Growth and Urban Poverty in India
Urban poverty in most of the developing world is considered a spillover of rural poverty. With increasing pace of development in these countries, urban settlements are assimilating migrants searching for better livelihood opportunities and who could be vulnerable and poor in the urban settlements. This article empirically assesses the levels of urban poverty in India at the disaggregated level and examines how recent growth episode has impacted p…
Escaping and Falling into Poverty in India Today
Caste Dominance and Economic Performance in Rural India
Using household panel data for rural India covering 1993–94 and 2004–5, we test whether scheduled castes (SCs) and other minority groups perform better or worse in terms of income when resident in villages dominated by (i) upper castes or (ii) their own group. Theoretically, upper-caste dominance comprises a potential “proximity gain” and offsetting group-specific “oppression” effects. For SCs and other backward classes (OBCs), initial proximity …
Job Recruitment Networks and Migration to Cities in India
Economists have focused on job search and supply-side explanations for network effects in labour transactions. This paper develops and tests an alternative explanation for the high prevalence of network-based labour market entry in developing countries. In our theoretical framework, employers use employee networks as screening and incentive mechanisms to improve the quality of recruitment. Our framework suggests a negative relationship between ne…
Between Emergency Responses and Rights-based Approaches
This article analyses poverty and undernutrition in two of India's poorest states – Orissa and West Bengal. We describe poverty and undernutrition in these two states, focusing on within-state differences. We argue that the persistence of the differences within Orissa is due to ‘structural inequalities’ in the access to and delivery of central government programmes. We then explore the preliminary evidence on West Bengal's recent efforts to impro…
Does Intra-household Discrimination Account for the Bulk of India's ‘Missing Women’
Are adverse sex ratios in India largely due to intra-household discrimination of females? Received wisdom holds that the answer is ‘yes’. We have two reasons to doubt this. First, we show that poverty is associated with better, not worse, sex ratios in India. Second, we quantify the number of missing women in India due to its actual sex ratio at birth and find that it is considerably larger than the number due to excess postnatal female mortality…
The Effectiveness of Jobs Reservation
This article investigates the effect of jobs reservation on improving the economic opportunities of persons belonging to India's Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). Using employment data from the 55th NSS round, the authors estimate the probabilities of different social groups in India being in one of three categories of economic status: own account workers; regular salaried or wage workers; casual wage labourers. These probabilities…
Fertility and the household's economic status
We model fertility as endogenous to the family's economic status because poor households choose to have large families in the absence of adequate social insurance. Because of a strong son preference in India, having two girls first can proxy an exogenous increase in fertility, and is therefore a good instrument for fertility in determining poverty of rural households. The 1993–1994 Indian Quinquennial Survey data shows that even though poverty ra…
Surplus Labour, Social Structure and Rural to Urban Migration
Escaping and Falling into Poverty in India Today
The Effectiveness of Jobs Reservation
This article investigates the effect of jobs reservation on improving the economic opportunities of persons belonging to India's Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). Using employment data from the 55th NSS round, the authors estimate the probabilities of different social groups in India being in one of three categories of economic status: own account workers; regular salaried or wage workers; casual wage labourers. These probabilities…
Surplus Labour, Social Structure and Rural to Urban Migration
Caste Dominance and Economic Performance in Rural India
Using household panel data for rural India covering 1993–94 and 2004–5, we test whether scheduled castes (SCs) and other minority groups perform better or worse in terms of income when resident in villages dominated by (i) upper castes or (ii) their own group. Theoretically, upper-caste dominance comprises a potential “proximity gain” and offsetting group-specific “oppression” effects. For SCs and other backward classes (OBCs), initial proximity …
Hierarchical Modelling of Covid-19 Death Risk in India in the Early Phase of the Pandemic
We improve upon the modelling of India's pandemic vulnerability. Our model is multidisciplinary and recognises the nested levels of the epidemic. We create a model of the risk of severe COVID-19 and death, instead of a model of transmission. Our model allows for socio-demographic-group differentials in risk, obesity and underweight people, morbidity status and other conditioning regional and lifestyle factors. We build a hierarchical multilevel m…
Does Intra-household Discrimination Account for the Bulk of India's ‘Missing Women’
Are adverse sex ratios in India largely due to intra-household discrimination of females? Received wisdom holds that the answer is ‘yes’. We have two reasons to doubt this. First, we show that poverty is associated with better, not worse, sex ratios in India. Second, we quantify the number of missing women in India due to its actual sex ratio at birth and find that it is considerably larger than the number due to excess postnatal female mortality…
Fertility and the household's economic status
We model fertility as endogenous to the family's economic status because poor households choose to have large families in the absence of adequate social insurance. Because of a strong son preference in India, having two girls first can proxy an exogenous increase in fertility, and is therefore a good instrument for fertility in determining poverty of rural households. The 1993–1994 Indian Quinquennial Survey data shows that even though poverty ra…
Surplus Labour, Social Structure and Rural to Urban Migration
Does Intra-household Discrimination Account for the Bulk of India's ‘Missing Women’
Are adverse sex ratios in India largely due to intra-household discrimination of females? Received wisdom holds that the answer is ‘yes’. We have two reasons to doubt this. First, we show that poverty is associated with better, not worse, sex ratios in India. Second, we quantify the number of missing women in India due to its actual sex ratio at birth and find that it is considerably larger than the number due to excess postnatal female mortality…
The Effectiveness of Jobs Reservation
This article investigates the effect of jobs reservation on improving the economic opportunities of persons belonging to India's Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). Using employment data from the 55th NSS round, the authors estimate the probabilities of different social groups in India being in one of three categories of economic status: own account workers; regular salaried or wage workers; casual wage labourers. These probabilities…
Job Recruitment Networks and Migration to Cities in India
Economists have focused on job search and supply-side explanations for network effects in labour transactions. This paper develops and tests an alternative explanation for the high prevalence of network-based labour market entry in developing countries. In our theoretical framework, employers use employee networks as screening and incentive mechanisms to improve the quality of recruitment. Our framework suggests a negative relationship between ne…
Between Emergency Responses and Rights-based Approaches
This article analyses poverty and undernutrition in two of India's poorest states – Orissa and West Bengal. We describe poverty and undernutrition in these two states, focusing on within-state differences. We argue that the persistence of the differences within Orissa is due to ‘structural inequalities’ in the access to and delivery of central government programmes. We then explore the preliminary evidence on West Bengal's recent efforts to impro…
Caste Dominance and Economic Performance in Rural India
Using household panel data for rural India covering 1993–94 and 2004–5, we test whether scheduled castes (SCs) and other minority groups perform better or worse in terms of income when resident in villages dominated by (i) upper castes or (ii) their own group. Theoretically, upper-caste dominance comprises a potential “proximity gain” and offsetting group-specific “oppression” effects. For SCs and other backward classes (OBCs), initial proximity …
Escaping and Falling into Poverty in India Today
Economic Growth and Urban Poverty in India
Urban poverty in most of the developing world is considered a spillover of rural poverty. With increasing pace of development in these countries, urban settlements are assimilating migrants searching for better livelihood opportunities and who could be vulnerable and poor in the urban settlements. This article empirically assesses the levels of urban poverty in India at the disaggregated level and examines how recent growth episode has impacted p…
Hierarchical Modelling of Covid-19 Death Risk in India in the Early Phase of the Pandemic
We improve upon the modelling of India's pandemic vulnerability. Our model is multidisciplinary and recognises the nested levels of the epidemic. We create a model of the risk of severe COVID-19 and death, instead of a model of transmission. Our model allows for socio-demographic-group differentials in risk, obesity and underweight people, morbidity status and other conditioning regional and lifestyle factors. We build a hierarchical multilevel m…
The role of women’s empowerment on child nutrition in India
Wl-4798-Visualising the Invisible
The categorisation used by India’s labour force surveys have failed to capture three evolving dynamics of labour market. Firstly, the gender difference in amount of work provided toward economic activities and contribution to GDP is overstated at present because the PLFS poorly records goods production within households when unpaid workers do non-monetized work. Secondly, the decision-making sharing within small firms has been underemphasized, to…
Economics (10 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Poverty (5 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (4 works) · Development economics (4 works)