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Dr Indranil Dutta, Research Associate

Indranil Dutta	Indranil Dutta has a B.Sc. (Economics Honours) from Calcutta University, a M.A. (Economics) from Delhi School of Economics and a Ph.D from University of California, Riverside. He was until recently a research fellow at the World Institute of Development Economics Research (WIDER) in Helsinki. He has previously taught at the University of Sheffield and the University of East Anglia.
Current research areas	Indranil's research lies in the area of quantitative development economics and applied welfare economics. Broadly, he is interested in understanding issues related to well-being, deprivation and distribution. Within this, he is particularly interested in: measurement issues related to indicators of well-being and deprivation and the political economy issues associated with poverty and inequality.
Selected recent and forthcoming publications	Food insecurity at the household level, (with C. Gundersen ) in S.S.Acharya, B. Davies and B. Guha-Khasnobis (eds) Food Insecurity: Indicators, Measurement and the Impact of Trade, Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. Health inequality and non-monotonicity of the health related social welfare function: A Rejoinder. Journal of Health Economics, (2007) 26(2), pp.426-429. Health inequality and non-monotonicity of the health related social welfare function. Journal of Health Economics, (2007), 26(2), pp.414-421. Corruption and Development: Analysis and Measurement. (Guest edited a special section with Nick Duncan), World Development, (2006), 34(2). Sales force compensation plans incorporating multidimensional sales effort and salesperson efficiency (with Sunil Erevelles and Carolyn Galantine). Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management. (2004), Vol. 24 pp. 99-112. (Received the James M. Comar Award for the best contribution to Selling and Sales Management Theory/Methodology). Generalized measures of literacy. Mathematical Social Sciences, (2004) Vol. 48, pp. 69-80. On measuring multi-dimensional deprivation on the basis of aggregate data, (with P. Pattanaik and Y. Xu). Economica, (2003), Vol. 70, pp. 197-221. On measuring changes in welfare when changes in consumption bundles are small, (with P. Pattanaik and R. Russell). Economics Bulletin, (2003), 4(27), pp. 1-9. Housing deprivation in a village in Orissa, (with P. Pattanaik), Journal of Quantitative Economics, (2000), Vol. 16, pp. 145-175.
Current Research Projects	Corruption Inequality and corruption: The missing link, (with A. Mishra, University of Bath). An Analysis of Market linkage with Incomplete Information: Application to Competition, Corruption and Inequality, (with A. Mishra). Persistence of inequality in the presence of Corruption (with A. Mishra). Welfare and Deprivation. Inequality of Happiness (with James Foster, Vanderbilt). Millennium Development Goals: Successes and Failures. (with David Hulme and Susan Steiner, BWPI). A New Measure of Vulnerability: An Axiomatic Characterizaton (with James Foster and Ajit Mishra). Health Inequality and Deprivation (with Mark McGillivray, AUSAID). Conflict Does inequality lead to conflict? A bargaining theoretic approach, (with A. Mishra). HIV and State Fragility (with A. Barnett, LSE) . A dynamic model of conflict (with S. Bannerjee, BITS, India).

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