Dr Sumit Mishra is an Assistant Professor of Economics at IFMR GSB. He received his PhD in Development Studies and MSc in Economics from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research. His doctoral thesis looked investigated the issue of regional imbalances in Maharashtra, focusing on the constitutional mandate outlined in Article 371(2) and its failure to ameliorate regional differences within the state.

His current research examines three aspects of India’s economic development:

• The relationship between caste diversity and access to public goods in villages
• The association between segregation and public goods in cities
• The movement from farm to non-farm occupations (structural transformation)

Research

• Caste and Development
• Regional Development
• Structural Transformation

Publications

Working Papers

• Spatial Segregation, Multi-Scale Diversity, and Public Goods, Dyson Working Paper 18-06, Cornell University https://dyson.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/02/Cornell-Dyson-wp1807.pdf
• Public Goods, and Nested Subnational Units: Diversity, Segregation, or Hierarchy?, Dyson Working Paper 18-16, Cornell Universityhttps://dyson.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/02/Cornell-Dyson-wp1816.pdf

Recent Conference Presentations

• 2019 April 10-13. Population Association of America, Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, US
• June 13-15 (Scheduled). Development Economics and Policy Conference, DIW Berlin, Germany
• June 16-17 (Scheduled). Nordic Conference on Development Economics, Copenhagen, Denmark

Teaching

Courses Taught at IFMR GSB

MBA-level courses:

• Mathematics for Managers
• Macroeconomics
• Intermediate Probability Theory
• Mathematics for Data Science
• Foundations of Development
• Impact Evaluation Methods for Business Decisions

PhD-level course

Applied Econometrics