Debayan Pakrashi

 

Debayan Pakrashi

Associate Professor

Department of Economic Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
and
Economic Research Unit
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata

Office: Room 628, Economic Research Unit
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata

Email: pakrashide@gmail.com

Skype: debayan.pakrashi

Academic Honours and Awards:

• Awarded the J.J.Goodwin Memorial Prize and Scholarship, 2006.

• Awarded the Hrishikesh Chattopadhyay and Jajnaseni Memorial Prize, 2006.

• Awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Award, 2006.

• Awarded the Swami Vivekananda Award, 2006.

• Awarded the Indian Culture Award, 2005, 2006.

• Awarded the Ford Foundation Scholarship, 2007 (declined).

• Awarded the Merit Scholarship, 2006-2008.

• Awarded the Graduate Research Scholarship, 2008-2009.

• Awarded the Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2008-2009.

• Awarded the Research Summer Scholarship, 2009.

• Awarded the Australian Research Council Discovery PhD Scholarship, 2010-2013.

• Awarded the University of Queensland International Scholarship, 2010-2013.

• Awarded the Graduate School International Travel Award, 2013.

• Awarded the position of Senior Research Officer at the School of Population Health, University of Queensland, 2013 (declined).

• Awarded the University of Stirling Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. 2014-2017.

• Awarded the M. N. Murthy Excellence Fund, 2014.

• Awarded the Institute Fellowship from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. 2014-2017.

• Awarded the University of Queensland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. January 2015- December 2017 (declined).

• Awarded the 2014 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Theses, 2015 for the best Thesis from the University of Queensland, Australia.

• Awarded the Australian Alumni Excellence Award India under Young Achiever Category, 2015.

• Awarded letter of Appreciation from the Director of IITK for teaching, 2015 for Introduction to Economics (large class category).

• Awarded Best Surge Poster Award 2016 for the project “Vulnerability of Indian widows” with Mr Ayush Agrawal.

• Awarded letter of Appreciation from the Director of IITK for teaching, 2016 for Introduction to Economics (large class category).

• Awarded the PK Kelkar Class of 1979 Research Fellowship for Outstanding Young Faculty by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur from 1st May 2017-30th April 2020.

• Awarded the Prof. M. J. Manohar Rao Award 2016, awarded to young scholars under the age of 35 from The Indian Econometric Society in 2018.

• Awarded letter of Appreciation from the Director of IITK for teaching, 2019 for Behavioural & Experimental Economics (large class category).

• Awarded letter of Appreciation from the Director of IITK for teaching, 2019 for Introduction to Economics (large class category).

• The Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Mathematical Research Impact Centric Support (MATRICS) grant scheme under Quantitative Social Sciences (QSS), 2020-23.

• Selected for the J-PAL South Asia's Indian Scholars Program, 2021-2022.

• Selected for the STAAARS+ Fellowship in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2021-2023.
  The STAAARS+ Fellows program, under the USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research, Capacity, and Influence (PRCI), is a collaboration between Cornell University, Michigan State University (MSU), and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to advance rigorous, policy-oriented food security research.

• Awarded letter of Appreciation from the Director of IITK for teaching Postgraduate Development Economics (large class category), 2021.

• Awarded letter of Appreciation from the Director of IITK for teaching Undergraduate Development Economics(large class category), 2021.

• Awarded letter of Appreciation from the Director of IITK for teachingIntroduction to Economics (large class category), 2022.

• Selected to receive the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE) Outstanding Article Award at the 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting.