Ashutosh has been involved in multiple research organisations in the fields of Development Economics, Environmental Economics and Fiscal Deficit of Union Government of India. Before joining the Ph.D. programme at IFMR-GSB, he worked in Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Project at Nalanda University, from 2019 to 2020. Prior to that he was working as Research Associate at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad in 2018. He also got exposed to fiscal research frontiers at Reserve Bank of India in Mumbai during 2017 to 2018.

During his Masters in Economics and Mathematics, he also taught students at undergraduate level in the Engineering, Mathematics and Economics stream. His teaching subjects were Intermediate Microeconomics, Introductory Probability and Statistics, and Mathematics for Engineers.

His current area of research includes financial inclusion, household responses to macroeconomic shocks in health seeking behavior, unintended educational consequences of female security in public spaces, among others.

Experience

Professional Background:

1. Junior Research Fellow, Nalanda University, Rajgir (July 2019 to June 2020)
   Under the supervision of Dr. Aviram Sharma
   Undertook impact assessment of water recharge interventions at household level in the farming community in rural Bihar. Identified the coping mechanism adapted by farmers to fight the negative impact of climate change on agriculture productivity.

2. Research Associate, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad (August 2018 to December 2018)
   Under the supervision of Dr. Omesh Kini
   Identified the key characteristics of business correspondents in paperless banking that promoted financial inclusion for relatively unbanked regions in south India. Established that Aadhaar enabled paperless banking enabled banking transactions which are comparable to traditional physical banking platforms.

3. Research Intern, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai (August 2017 to January 2018)
   Proposed a Granger causal model to estimate the long and short run impact of rise in fiscal deficit on growth in Gross Domestic Product in India.
   Independent Research Studies at IFMR-GSB:

1. Impact assessment study of participation into self-help groups for women. Found positive behavioral shift in participants towards better financial management and more attention towards livelihood diversification. Link to the paper
2. Causally estimated the impact of national lockdown of 2020 on the out-of-pocket health expenditure by households in India. Found that households coped with lockdown by cutting on their health expenditure to stabilize their non-health expenditure.

Collaborative Work at IFMR-GSB:

1. Impact of WASH facilities on children schooling. Does household head gender matter? Some empirical evidence from India. Paper investigates the impact of household head gender and WASH provisions on children’s schooling attainment. Link to the paper

Conferences and Publications

Paper Presentations:

Papers Accepted in International Conferences:

Summer School:

1. Online Summer School in Anthropology and Global Public Health 2022. Under Joint Collaboration of NYU Silver School of Social Work and Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health (BALM), Chennai.
Winter School:
1. Winter School on Panel Models and Their Applications, 2022. Indian Statistical Institute, North-East Centre

Personal Interests

Ashutosh takes special interests in modes of expressions that facilitate diversity of thoughts and freedom of choice. On the same lines, he engages himself in poetry compositions that reflects his views of the world around, familial mazes, and vision of an equitable future. He loves to remain abreast with meaningful cinema around the globe. When away from his academic work and cinema, he enjoys playing badminton and having walk in serene morning.

Education and Certifications

Academic Background:

1. M.Sc. Mathematics, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
2. M.Sc. Economics, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
3. B.A. (Hons.) Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi