Debayan Pakrashi

Debayan Pakrashi

Associate Professor

Department of Economic Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Office: Room 607, Faculty Building

Ph: 0512-259-6107;

Email: pakrashi@iitk.ac.in

Skype: debayan.pakrashi

Journal Publications:

• “He’s in a better place but she’s not: Health status of widows in India” with Ayush Agrawal (IIT Kanpur) and Chitwan Lalji (IIT Kanpur) forthcoming Journal of Development Studies [ABDC Journal Ranking A]. [Download]

• “Daily weather only has small effects on wellbeing in the US” with Chitwan Lalji (IIT Kanpur & IIM Kozhikode) and Paul Frijters (LSE) Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2020 Vol 176: 747-762 [ABDC Journal Ranking A*] [5-year Impact factor 2.261]. [Download]

• “Microcredit Program Participation and Labour Supply Behaviour of Rural Households” with Asadul Islam (Monash Uni) forthcoming Journal of Development Studies, 2020 Vol 56(10): 1927-1946[ABDC Journal Ranking A] [Impact factor 1.531]. [Download]

• Microcredit Program Participation and Labour Supply Behaviour of Rural Households, with Asadul Islam (Monash Uni) forthcoming Journal of Development Studies [ABDC Journal Ranking A] [Impact factor 1.531]. [Download]

• Can Referral Improve Targeting? Evidence from a Vocational Training Experiment, with Asadul Islam (Monash Uni), Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford Uni) and Md. Malek (Uni of Tokyo).forthcoming Journal of Development Economics [ABDC Journal Ranking A*] [5-year Impact factor 3.996]. [Download]

• “Roommate effects in Health Outcomes” with Paul Frijters (London School of Economics), Asadul Islam (Monash Uni) and Chitwan Lalji (IIT Kanpur) Health Economics, 2019. Vol 28: 998-1034. [ABDC Journal Ranking A*] [Impact factor 2.319]. [Download]

• “Heterogeneity in Peer Effects in Random Dormitory Assignment in a Developing country” with Paul Frijters (London School of Economics) and Asadul Islam (Monash Uni) Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2019. Vol 163: 117-134. [ABDC Journal Ranking A*] [Impact factor 2.140]. [Download]

• “Can eating five fruit and veg a day really keep the doctor away?” with Chitwan Lalji (IIT Kanpur) and Russell Smyth (Monash Uni) Economic Modelling, 2018. Vol 70: 320-330. [ABDC Journal Ranking A] [Impact factor 1.844]. [Download]

• “Migration and Discrimination in Urban China: A Decomposition Approach” (with Paul Frijters, UQ) Review of Income and Wealth, 2017. Vol 63(4): 821-840. [ABDC Journal Ranking A] [Impact factor 1.211]. [Download]

• “Microcredit Program Participation and Household Food Security in Rural Bangladesh” with (Asadul Islam, Chandana Maitra, Debayan Pakrashi and Russell Smyth) Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2016. Vol. 67(2): 448-470. [ABDC Journal Ranking A] [Impact factor 1.545]. [Download]

• “Do all activities ‘weigh’ equally? How different physical activities differ as predictors of weight” (with Grace Lordan, LSE) Risk Analysis, 2015. Vol. 35(11): 2069-2086. [Impact factor 2.898]. [Download]

• “Make Time for Physical Activity or You May Spend More Time Sick!” (with Grace Lordan, LSE) Social Indicators Research, 2014.  Vol. 119 (3): 1379-1391. [ABDC Journal Ranking A] [Impact factor 1.648]. [Download]

• “Do WTO Members employ less child labor?” (with Professor Eugene Beaulieu) Master thesis submitted to the Indian Growth and Development Review, 2013. Vol. 6(1):148-159. [ABDC Journal Ranking B].

Covid-19 Research Papers:

• “Determinants and Dynamics of Food Insecurity During COVID-19” with Firoz Ahmed (Khulna), Asad Islam (Monash), Tabassum Rahman (Newcastle) and Abu Siddique (TUM). [Download]

• “Income shocks and Wellbeing in rural Bangladesh: Evidence from large household surveys during COVID 19” with Firoz Ahmed (Khulna), Asad Islam (Monash), Tabassum Rahman (Newcastle) and Abu Siddique (TUM). [Download ]

• “Awareness Campaigns and Health Behavior: Evidence from Two Rapid Randomized Experiments in Bangladesh and India during COVID-19” with Firoz Ahmed (Khulna), Asad Islam (Monash), Tabassum Rahman (Newcastle) and Abu Siddique (TUM). [Download]

• “COVID-19 and Women's Mental Health: Evidence from a tele-counselling Intervention in Rural Bangladesh” with Firoz Ahmed (Khulna), Asad Islam (Monash), Tabassum Rahman (Newcastle), Abu Siddique (TUM) and Michael Vlassopoulos (Southampton). pre-results [Dowload]

• “Stigma, Misconception and Discrimination in the time of COVID-19” with Asad Islam (Monash), Liang C. Wang (Monash) and Michael Vlassopoulos (Southampton). [Download]

Working Papers:

• Determining the Extent of Statistical Discrimination: Evidence from a field experiment in India, with Asadul Islam, Liang Choon and Yves Zenou (Monash Uni). [Download]

• Don’t judge a book by its cover:  The role of intergroup contact in reducing prejudice in conflict settings, with Sarani Saha and S. N. Maiti (IIT Kanpur) and Russell Smyth (Monash). [Download]

• Mobilizing P2P Diffusion for New Agricultural Practices: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh, with Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford Uni) and Asadul Islam (Monash Uni). [Download]

• How Intensity of Exposure to an Innovation Affects Patterns of Adoption and Impacts:
  Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh on the System of Rice Intensification, with Asadul Islam (Monash Uni), Christopher Barrett (Cornell Uni) and Md. Malek (Uni of Tokyo). [Download]

• Microcredit Program Participation and Nutrition Security in Rural Bangladesh, with Asadul Islam (Monash Uni).

• Inequality in access to welfare programs in India: The role of awareness and motivation, with S. N. Maiti and Sarani Saha (IIT Kanpur).

• Sleeping patterns and psychological wellbeing: Evidence from young adults in the United States, with Chitwan Lalji (IIT Kanpur). [Download]

• Intergenerational consequences of maternal domestic violence: Effect on nutritional status of children, with Sarani Saha (IIT Kanpur).

Selected Work in Progress:

• Partition, Forced Migration and Social Identity: Identifying the role of identity in philanthropic behavior with N. Bhattacharya and Sarani Saha (IIT Kanpur) and Liang Choon Wang (Monash Uni).

• “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger: Experimental Evidence on harassment of women in India” with P. Frijters (LSE) and S. Sahoo (IIT Kanpur).

• “If you know it, then you follow it? Experimental Evidence on following traffic rules in India” with S. Sahoo (IIT Kanpur).

• “Do caste-based quotas worsen discrimination-induced gender inequality? Field experimental evidence from India” with S. Sahoo (IIT Kanpur), Asad Islam and Liang Choon Wang (Monash).

• Take-offs, Landing and Economic Growth, with Paul Frijters (LSE). [Download]

Media Publications and columns:

Popular Summary for globaldev

• Food insecurity during Covid-19 [Link]

Popular Summary for IGC India

• Can we select the right peers in Indian education? Evidence from Kolkata [Link]

Popular Summary for IGC Bangladesh

• Technology Adoption and Food Security in Rural Bangladesh [Link]

• Dr Debayan Pakrashi’s article "Can microcredit improve food security among the rural poor?" (with Asadul Islam, Chandana Maitra and Russell Smyth) appeared on the Ideas for India website in September 2015 [Link] and on the Monash Business School website in October 2015. [Link]

Popular Summary for Behavioral Evidence Hub

• Incentivizing Referrals in a Farmer Training Experiment [Link]

• Delivering COVID-19 information across the Digital Divide [Link]

Popular Summary for J-PAL website

• The Impact of Referrals to Improve Targeting for Agricultural Training in Bangladesh [Link]