Prof. Ashish Singh

Faculty Profile

Ashish Singh

Professor, Shailesh J Mehta School of Management and Associate Faculty, Motilal Oswal Centre for Capital Markets

Office: 207, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, I.I.T. Bombay, Powai, Mumbai
Phone: 91-22-25767793
Prof. Ashish Singh

Research

Areas of Interest

  • ›Economic Development
  • ›Population Economics
  • ›Political Economy of Financial Markets

Background

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India
  • Master of Business Administration (Finance), Sri Satya Sai University, Anantapur, India
  • Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronics), NIT Tiruchirapally (Trichy), India

Teaching

Subjects Taught

In SJMSOM
  • Economics
  • Economics of Development
  • Political Economy of Development
  • Business Research Methods
  • Survey Research and Experimentation
In MOCCM (running and forthcoming)
  • Professional Certificate Course on “Investment Strategies and Portfolio Management: A Comprehensive Course with Real-Time Applications in the Age of AI”
  • Professional Certificate Course on “Applied Finance, FinTech and Digital Economics”
CEP and NPTEL+ Courses
  • Experimental Research and Impact Evaluation: Theory, Demonstration & Real Time Application in the Age of AI
  • Article Development, Scientific Communication and Publications: Opportunity to Develop a Journal Paper with the Course
  • Academic Ethics, Scientific-Scholarly Writing & Journal Publications
  • Political Economy of Development in India
  • A Complete Primer on Survey Research and Experimentation in Action

Career

Positions Held (Academia)

Professor (since April 2026)

Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.

Associate Professor (May 2021 to March 2026)

Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.

Assistant Professor (December 2013 to April 2021)

Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.

Senior Lecturer (November 2012 to November 2013)

Azim Premji University, Bangalore.

Recognition

Honors and Awards

  • ›S.P. Sukhatme Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Bombay; 2025.
  • ›Best Poster Award: coauthored paper titled “Undernutrition Among Children in India: Analyzing the Economic Inequalities from Macro-to-Micro Level” won best poster award in the annual meeting of the Population Association of America [April 6-9], Atlanta, Georgia, US; 2022.
  • ›“Commendable” Reviewer Recognition; Oxford Development Studies; 2021.
  • ›“Exemplary” Reviewer Recognition; International Journal of Social Economics (Emerald); 2021.
  • ›Departmental Excellence in Teaching (EiT) Award, IIT Bombay; 2019.
  • ›Outstanding Submission Award – Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), 27th Annual Conference at the London School of Economics, July 2-4; 2015.
  • ›Prof. Sanjay Lall Best Student Paper Award (awarded by Oxford Development Studies) for the years 2011-12 for the paper “An Inquiry into the Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability of Farmers: Evidence from Rural India”; 2013.
  • ›ILO Microinsurance Innovation Facility Research Grant Award (with Sarthak Gaurav and Thiagu Ranganathan for “Complementarities between Microinsurance products and Inequality Linkages: Field Experiments in Rural India”); 2011.
  • ›Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) Scholar; 2010.
  • ›Graduate Fellowship, IGIDR (India); 2007-2012.

Scholarship

Publications

Publications in Peer-reviewed Journals

In Main Areas of Interest
  • ›Ashish Singh and Laeek Siddiqui (2026). Intergenerational educational mobility among women in India: trends and associated reasons from a longitudinal study. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Vol. 8.
  • ›Anam Pandoh and Ashish Singh (2025). Examining wage inequality among women in India: A multidimensional analysis of socio-economic disparities. PLoS ONE, Vol. 20(4), pp. e0320940.
  • ›Kaushalendra Kumar, Ashish Singh, Santosh Kumar Gautam, Abhishek Singh (2025). Calorie consumption and wages: Evidence from India’s labor market. Economic Modelling, Vol. 152, pp. 107279.
  • ›Zeenat Hashmi and Ashish Singh (2025). Unveiling Hidden Story of Anemia among Indian Muslim Women: A Comprehensive Analysis from 1998 to 2021. Frontiers in Nutrition, Vol. 12, pp. 1-16.
  • ›Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Abhishek Singh, Ashish Singh, Fiifi Amoako Johnson, Kaushalendra Kumar, Nikos Tzavidis, Sabu Padmadas (2025). Mapping son preference in India, 2002–2021: Spatial patterns and trends using model-based small area estimation. Demographic Research, Vol. 53, pp. 915–936.
  • ›Akanksha Choudhary, Ashish Singh and Mohd. Hifzur Rahman (2025). Does widowhood affect social capital in old age: the case of India. Frontiers in Sociology, Vol. 10, pp. 154900.
  • ›Akanksha Choudhary and Ashish Singh (2024). Breaking chains across generations: exploring the nexus between intergenerational educational mobility and domestic violence among Indian women. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Vol. 6, pp. 1390983.
  • ›Meghna Ghosh and Ashish Singh (2024). Employment status and health of Indian women. Sri Lanka Journal of Population Studies, Vol. 25(2), pp. 33-35.
  • ›Zeenat Hashmi and Ashish Singh (2023). Trends and socioeconomic disparities in undernutrition among Muslim women in India: evidence from the last two decades (1998–2021). International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 51(6), pp. 819-840.
  • ›Nambiar Apoorva, Agnihotri Satish, Arunachalam Dharmalingam, and Ashish Singh (2023). Undernutrition among children and its determinants across the parliamentary constituencies of India: a geospatial analysis. Journal of Biosocial Science, Vol. 56(2), pp. 338-356.
  • ›Laeek Siddiqui and Ashish Singh (2022). Socioeconomic Inequality in Longevity in India: Role of Caste, Class, Occupation, Region and Religion. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 57(32), pp. 57-65.
  • ›Nambiar Apoorva, Satish B. Agnihotri, Ashish Singh, Arunachalam Dharmalingam (2022). Region matters: Mapping the contours of undernourishment among children in Odisha, India. PLOS One, Vol. 17(6), pp. e0268600.
  • ›Abhishek Singh, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Kaushalendra Kumar, Ashish Singh, Fifi Amoako Johnson, Sabu S. Padmadas (2022). Spatial heterogeneity in son preference across India’s 640 districts: An application of small area estimation. Demographic Research, Vol. 47(December), pp. 793-842.
  • ›Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman, Shobhit Srivastav, Pradeep Kumar, Ashish Singh, Deepak Gupta, Vishwajeet Kaur (2022). Effect of Disability on High Quality of Life among Older Adults in Low and Middle-income Countries. Ageing International, Vol. 47, pp. 373-391.
  • ›Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman, Manzoor Ahmad Malik, Shekhar Chauhan, Ratna Patel, Ashish Singh, Anshu Mittal (2020). Examining the linkage between open defecation and child malnutrition in India. Children and Youth Services Review, Vol. 117(October), pp. 105345 (1-10).
  • ›Akanksha Choudhary and Ashish Singh (2019). Do Indian daughters shadow their mothers? A case of intergenerational educational mobility among women. International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 46(9), pp. 1095-1118.
  • ›Akanksha Choudhary, Gowtham Muthukkumaran and Ashish Singh (2019). Inequality of opportunity in Indian women. Social Indicators Research, Vol. 145(1), pp. 389-413.
  • ›Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman, Ashish Singh and Harilal Madhavan (2019). Disability-based disparity in outpatient health system responsiveness among the older adults in low- to upper-middle-income countries. Health Policy and Planning, Vol. 34(2), pp. 141-150.
  • ›Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman and Ashish Singh (2019). Disability and social cohesion among older adults: a multi-country study. International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 46(4), pp. 485-502.
  • ›Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman and Ashish Singh (2019). Socio-economic disparity in the occurrence of disability among older adults in six low-and-middle income countries. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. 12(1), pp. 60-75.
  • ›Abhishek Singh, Kaushalendra Kumar and Ashish Singh (2019). What explains the decline in neonatal mortality in India in the last three decades? Evidence from three rounds of NFHS surveys. Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 50(4), pp. 337-355.
  • ›Ashish Kumar Upadhyaya, Abhishek Singh and Ashish Singh (2019). Association between unintended births and risk of postpartum depression: Evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. Social Science and Medicine – Population Health, Vol. 9(December), pp. 100495 (1-9).
  • ›Kaushalendra Kumar, Santosh Kumar, Ashish Singh, Faujdar Ram, Abhishek Singh (2019). Heterogeneity in the effect of mid-childhood height and weight gain on human capital at age 14-15 years: Evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. PLOS One, Vol. 14(2), pp. e0212783.
  • ›Rahul Bawankule, Sadanand Shetye, Ashish Singh, Abhishek Singh and Kaushalendra Kumar (2019). Epidemiological investigation and management of bloody diarrhea among children in India. PLOS One, Vol. 14(9), pp. e0222208.
  • ›Akanksha Choudhary and Ashish Singh (2018). Effect of intergenerational educational mobility on health of Indian women. PLOS One, Vol. 13(9), pp. e0203633.
  • ›Akanksha Choudhary and Ashish Singh (2018). Examination of intergenerational occupational mobility among Indian women. International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 45(7), pp. 1071-1.
  • ›Thiagu Ranganathan, Sarthak Gaurav and Ashish Singh (2018). Anomaly in decision making under risk: violation of stochastic dominance among farmers in Gujarat, India. IIMB Management Review, Vol. 30(3), pp. 268-269.
  • ›Akanksha Choudhary and Ashish Singh (2017). Are daughters like mothers: evidence on intergenerational educational mobility among young females in India. Social Indicators Research, Vol. 133(2), pp. 601-621.
  • ›Abhishek Singh, Ashish Upadhyay, Ashish Singh and Kaushalendra Kumar (2017). The association between unintended births and poor child development in India: evidence from a longitudinal study. Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 48(1), pp. 55-71.
  • ›Ashish Singh, Kaushalendra Kumar and Abhishek Singh (2016). Trends in inequality in food consumption and calorie intake in India: evidence from the last three decades, 1983-2012. Social Indicators Research, Vol. 128(3), pp. 1319-1346.
  • ›Thiagu Ranganathan, Sarthak Gaurav and Ashish Singh (2016). Demand for price insurance among farmers in India: a choice experiment-based approach. Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research, Vol. 10(2), pp. 198-224.
  • ›Ashish Singh, Kaushalendra Kumar and Abhishek Singh (2015). Exclusion within the excluded: the worsening economic divide with-in the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes during the last three decades in India. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50(2), pp. 32-37.
  • ›Kaushalendra Kumar, Ashish Singh, Santosh Kumar, Faujdar Ram, Usha Ram, Joel Negin and Paul Kowal (2015). Socio-Economic Differentials in Impoverishment Effects of Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in China and India: Evidence from WHO-SAGE. PlOS One, Vol. 10(8), pp. e0135051.
  • ›Ashish Singh and Upasak Das (2015). Increasing compulsion to work for wages: old age labor participation and supply in India over the past two decades. Journal of Population Ageing, Vol. 8(4), pp. 303-326.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2015). Gender based within-household inequality in immunization status of children: some evidence from South Asian countries. Economics Bulletin, Vol. 35(2), pp. 911-923.
  • ›Ashish Singh, Kaushalendra Kumar and Abhishek Singh (2015). The Changing Structure of Inequality in India, 1993-2010: Some Observations and Consequences. Economics Bulletin, Vol. 35(1), pp. 590-603.
  • ›Abhishek Singh, Ashish Singh and Shyam Thapa (2015). Adverse consequences of unintended pregnancy for maternal and child health in Nepal. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, Vol. 27(2), pp. 1481-91.
  • ›Ashish Upadhyay, Abhishek Singh, Kaushalendra Kumar and Ashish Singh (2015). Impact of air pollution from the use of solid fuels on the incidence of life-threatening respiratory illnesses in children in India. BMC Public Health, Vol. 15, pp. 300 (1-9).
  • ›Abhishek Singh, Ashish Singh, Faujdar Ram (2014). Household food insecurity and nutritional status of children and women in Nepal. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Vol. 35(1), pp. 3-11.
  • ›Ashish Singh, Abhishek Singh, Saseendran Pallikadavath, Faujdar Ram (2014). Gender differentials in inequality of educational opportunities in India: new evidence from an Indian Youth Study. European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 26(4), pp. 707-724.
  • ›Ashish Singh, Upasak Das and Tushar Agrawal (2013). How inclusive has regular employment been in India? A dynamic view. European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 25(3), pp. 486-494.
  • ›Ashish Singh, Sarthak Gaurav and Upasak Das (2013). Household headship and academic skills of Indian children: a special focus on gender disparities. European Journal of Population, Vol. 29(4), pp. 445-466.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2012). Inequality of opportunity in earnings and consumption expenditure: the case of Indian men. Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 58(1), pp. 79-106.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2012). Gender based within-household inequality in childhood immunization in India: changes over time and across regions. PLOS One, (4): e35045.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2012). Measuring inequality of poverty: theory and an application to India. Journal of Poverty, Vol. 16(1), pp. 96-118.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2012). Inequality of Opportunity in Access to Primary Education: The Case of Indian Children. Population Review, Vol. 51(1), pp. 50-68.
  • ›Sripad Motiram and Ashish Singh (2012). How close does the apple fall to the tree? Some evidence on intergenerational occupational mobility from India. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVII(40), pp. 56-65.
  • ›Sarthak Gaurav and Ashish Singh (2012). An inquiry into the financial literacy and cognitive ability of farmers: evidence from Rural India. Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 40(3), pp. 358-380.
  • ›Abhishek Singh, Ashish Singh and Bidhubhusan Mahapatra (2012). The consequences of unintended pregnancy for maternal and child health in rural India: evidence from prospective data. Maternal and Child Health Journal, Vol. 17(3), pp. 493-500.
  • ›Abhishek Singh, Awadhesh Yadav and Ashish Singh (2012). Utilization of postnatal care for newborns and its association with neonatal mortality in India: An analytical appraisal. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Vol. 12, pp. 33.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2011). Inequality of opportunity in Indian children: the case of immunization and nutrition. Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 30(6), pp. 861-883.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2011). Family background, academic ability and associated inequality of opportunity in India. Economics Bulletin, Vol. 31(2), pp. 1463-1473.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2011). Gender based intra-household inequality of opportunity in academic skills among Indian children. Economics Bulletin, Vol. 31(3), pp. 2333-2346.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2010). The effect of family background on individual wages and an examination of inequality of opportunity in India. The Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 31(2), pp. 230-246.
In Allied Areas of Interest
  • ›Neha Uttam, Pankaj Dutta and Ashish Singh (2025). Unravelling and Managing Social Sustainability Tensions in Supply Chains: Perspectives of Small Suppliers in the Food Processing Sector. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. Forthcoming.
  • ›Neha Uttam, Pankaj Dutta and Ashish Singh (2024). Influence of stakeholders on supply chain social sustainability: New insights from small suppliers in the Indian manufacturing sector. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 444(March), pp. 1-18.
  • ›Neha Uttam, Pankaj Dutta and Ashish Singh (2022). Micro, small, and medium suppliers’ perspectives on supply chain social sustainability: new evidence from India. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 379(1), pp. 1-19.
  • ›Ashish Singh and Harilal Madhavan (2015). Traditional vs. non-traditional healing for minor and major morbidities in India: uses, cost and quality comparisons. Tropical Medicine and International Health, Vol. 20(9), pp. 1223-1238.
  • ›Vikash Gautam, Ashish Singh, Sarthak Gaurav (2014). Cash Holdings and Finance Constraints in Indian Manufacturing Firms. Research in Applied Economics, Vol. 6(3), pp. 56-75.
  • ›Ashish Singh and Sarthak Gaurav (2013). Television Exposure and Academic Skills of Children: New Findings from India. Journal of Communication Technology and Human Behaviors, 10.7726/jcthb.2013.1001.
  • ›Upasak Das, Ashish Singh and Nitay Mahanto (2012). Awareness about Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: some evidence from the northern parts of West Bengal, India. Economics Bulletin, Vol. 32(1), pp. 528-537.

Book Chapters

  • ›Akanksha Choudhary, Ashish Singh (2020). Experience of Domestic Violence by Young Women in India: Does the Nature of Occupation Play Any Role? In Billystrom Jivetti, Md. Nazrul Hoque (Eds) “Population Change and Public Policy”, pp. 295-320; Springer.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2015). Globalization and the Trends in Inequality of Poverty in the US in the Last Decade. In Stephen Haymes, Maria Vidal de Haymes, Reuben Miller (Eds) “The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States”, pp. 43-55; Routledge.

Policy and Discussion Papers

  • ›Do Caste and Social Interactions Affect Risk Attitudes and Adoption of Innovations? Evidence from Rainfall Insurance Adoption in Gujarat, India. International Labour Office policy research paper, International Labor Organization Research Paper No.25, (with Sarthak Gaurav and Thiagu Ranganathan) 2012.
  • ›Reducing Gender Based Inequalities in Employment and Wages: Is India on Right Track? UNICEF and UNWOMEN, Addressing Inequalities – post 2015 Development Agenda Background Paper, 2012
  • ›Child Disability and Maternal Work Participation: New Evidence from India. Economics E-Journal Discussion Paper no. 2013-6 (with Prachi Gupta and Upasak Das).

Policy Pieces, Research Blogs/Briefs, and Media

  • ›The Inequality Within: Why Women’s Wages Reveal India’s Next Growth Test. The Policy Edge, December 1, 2025.
  • ›Nutrition As Economic Infrastructure. The Policy Edge, October 18, 2025.
  • ›Anaemia Among Indian Muslim Women: A Structural Health Divide. The Policy Edge, August 30, 2025.
  • ›Inequality of Opportunity among Indian women. Ideas for India, August 5, 2019.
  • ›Are Indian girls more educated than their mothers? Ideas for India, September 5, 2018.
  • ›Compelled to Work for Wages: The Story of Old-Age Wage Labour Participation in India. Openpop.org, April 12, 2016.
  • ›Increasing economic divide within backward castes. Ideas for India, March 28, 2016.

Conferences

Papers Presented at International Conferences

  • ›Ashish Singh (2025). Origin of Socioeconomic Inequalities in India: Insights from at least 1600-600 BCE. Sixth Conference of the European Society for Historical Demography (ESHD), September 10-13, University of Bologna, Italy.
  • ›Anam Pandoh and Ashish Singh (2025). Bridging the Gap: Trends in Inequality in Education among Women in India – Story of Last Three Decades (1992-2021). 30th International Population Conference (IPC2025), 13-18 July, Brisbane, Australia.
  • ›Pulkita Jain and Ashish Singh (2025). Examining Disparity in Child Immunization within Marginalized Caste Groups in India. 30th International Population Conference (IPC2025), 13-18 July, Brisbane, Australia.
  • ›Laeek Siddiqui and Ashish Singh (2024). Marching towards Equality: A Three-Decade Journey in Higher Education of Social-Economic Groups in India. British Society for Population Studies (BSPS), September 09-11, University of Bath, United Kingdom.
  • ›Ashish Singh, Laeek Siddiqui (2023). Intergenerational educational mobility among women in India: Trends and associated reasons from a longitudinal study. British Society for Population Studies (BSPS), September 11-13, University of Keele, United Kingdom.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2022). Inequality of Life Opportunity: Introduction and Theoretical Framework. Population Association of America (PAA), April 6-9, Atlanta, United States of America.
  • ›Apoorva Nambiar, Ashish Singh, Satish Agnihotri and Dharmalingam Arunachalam (2022). Undernutrition Among Children in India: Analyzing the Economic Inequalities from Macro-to-Micro Level. Population Association of America (PAA), April 6-9, Atlanta, United States of America.
  • ›Laeek Siddiqui, Ashish Singh (2019). Indices for measuring socioeconomic inequality in longevity: theory and an application to India. Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, November 11-12, Vienna, Austria.
  • ›Akanksha Choudhary, Ashish Singh (2017). Experience of domestic violence by young women in India: does the nature of occupation plays any role. 2017 Population and Public Policy Conference, University of Houston, Texas, January 6-8.
  • ›Akanksha Choudhary, Ashish Singh (2017). Socio-economic differentials in intergenerational educational mobility among women in India. 2017 Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Lyon, France, June 29 – July 1.
  • ›Ashish Singh, Harilal Madhavan (2016). Determinants of use of traditional healing for minor and major morbidities in India: evidence from a nationally representative survey. Annual conference of Population Association of America (PAA), Washington DC, USA, March 31-April 2.
  • ›Ashish Singh, Hardik Seth (2016). Corporate tax avoidance and evasion and its effect on development; forms of corporate tax avoidance, what has been done, to what effect, why so little has been done and what can be done? The Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual conference, University of California, Berkeley, USA, June 24-26.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2015). Globalization and increasing inequality of poverty in United States over the decade. The Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual conference, London School of Economics, July 2-4.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2015). Same academic abilities but different wages: the legacy of gender discrimination in India in the twenty-first century. The Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual conference, London School of Economics, July 2-4.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2014). Globalization and the trends in inequality of poverty in the United States over the last two decades. The Human Development and Capability Association’s (HDCA) annual conference, Athens, September 2-5.
  • ›Ashish Singh, Upasak Das, Tushar Agrawal (2013). Inclusiveness of Indian Economic Growth and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Regular Employment in India: Changes over Time and Across Regions. The XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea, August 26-31. (Oral)
  • ›Ashish Singh, Abhishek Singh (2013). Intergenerational transmission of gender based domestic violence in India: some new evidence. The XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea, August 26-31.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2012). Gender based disparity in wages among individuals with similar academic capabilities: new evidence from India. The Human Development and Capability Association’s (HDCA) annual conference, Jakarta, September 5-7.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2012). Gender based within-household inequality in immunization status of children: some evidence from South Asian Countries. The Asian Population Conference 2012, Bangkok, August 26-29.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2011). Inequality of opportunity in access to primary education: case of Indian children. Population Association of America’s Annual Conference, Washington DC, March 31 – April 2.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2010). Poverty revisited: capturing poverty and the inequality in poverty distribution across groups in a single index. Irish Economic Association Annual Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, April 23-25.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2010). Does individual’s achievement depend on capability, effort or family background? New evidence on inequality of opportunity in India. Human Development and Capability Association’s Annual Conference, Amman, Jordan, September 21-23.
  • ›Ashish Singh (2009). Inequality of opportunity: an application to India. 5th Growth and Development Conference, ISI Delhi, December 16-18.

Projects

Projects Completed and Ongoing

  • ›PI for Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) funded (ARG MATRICES) project titled “Gender based intra-household inequality in nutrition among Indian Children over the last three decades”. (Ongoing)
  • ›PI for seed project funded by IIT Bombay. Title: Effect of Maternal and Child health on Human Capital formation and Wages in the rural areas of Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh.
  • ›Co-PI for ILO sponsored project. Title: Complementarities between microinsurance products and inequality linkages: Field experiments in rural India.

Service

Others

  • ›Advisor and Fellow, The Policy Edge.
  • ›Expert, Global Development Awards Competition 2023, Global Development Network.
  • ›Advisor in the 16th Next Generation Global Workshop on “Migration and Quality of Life: Harnessing the Potential for Social Prosperity” held on September 29-30, 2023 at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
  • ›Reviewer for the following journals – Ageing International; Applied Economics; Asian Development Review; Asian Population Studies; BMC Public Health; BMJ Open; Child and Youth Services Review; Economics Bulletin; Economic Modelling; Ethnic and Racial Studies; European Journal of Development Research; Genus; International Journal of Development Issues; International Journal of Social Economics; International Review of Economics; Journal of Bio-Social Science; Journal of Development Studies; Journal of Population and Social Studies; Journal of Population Research; Journal of Quantitative Economics; Journal of South Asian Development; Oxford Development Studies; PLOS Global Public Health; Research in Social Stratification and Mobility; Review of Development Economics; Review of Social Economy; Scientific Reports; Social Indicators Research; Social Science and Medicine; Social Science and Medicine – Population Health; World Development.