Debopam Bhattacharya
Address: Department of Economics, University of Oxford
Ph: 44-(0)7503858289
email: debopam.bhattacharya@economics.ox.ac.uk
Education
Indian Statistical Institute, Bachelor of Statistics, 1994.
University of Delhi, M.A., Economics, 1996.
London School of Economics, M.Sc., Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, 1998.
Princeton University, Ph.D, Economics, 2003.
(Thesis Committee: Bo Honore, Angus Deaton, Han Hong, Adriana Leras-Muney)
Major Fields of Interest: Micro-econometric Theory and its Applications
Published Papers (in reverse chronological order)
8. Inferring Welfare-Maximizing Treatment Assignment under Budget Constraints, Journal of Econometrics, vol. 167, March 2012, Pages 168-196, joint with Pascaline Dupas, Stanford.
7. A Nonparametric Analysis of Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States, Quantitative Economics 2 (2011), 335–37, joint with Bhash Mazumder, Chicago Fed.
6. Inferring Optimal Peer Assignment from Experimental Data, Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 2009, Vol. 104, No. 486: 486–500.
5. Inference in panel data models under attrition caused by unobservables, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 144 (2), June 2008, Pp 430-446.
4. A Permutation-based Estimator for Monotone-index Models, Econometric Theory, vol. 24, number 3, June 2008, Pages 795-807
3. Inference on Inequality from Household Survey Data , Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 137, Issue 2, April 2007, Pages 674-707.
2. Asymptotic Inference from Multi-stage Samples, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 126, Issue 1, May 2005, Pages 145-171
---Textbook exposition in Jeff Wooldridge's graduate text: Econometrics of cross section and panel data, 2nd ed., chapter 20.4, MIT press.
--Winner of the 2006 Arnold Zellner Award for the best theory paper published in the Journal of Econometrics in the previous two years
1. Seemingly Unrelated Regression with Identical Regressors: a note, Economics Letters, Vol. 85, Issue 2, Pages 247-255.
1. Evaluating Treatment Protocols Using Data Combination, R&R, Journal of Econometrics.
2. Are University Admissions Academically Fair?, joint with Margaret Stevens and Shin Kanaya.
Honors, Grants and Fellowships:
Oxford University Press, Fell Grant, 2011.
Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, 2011-12.
Pew Charitable Trusts, Research grant, 2007.
2006 Arnold Zellner award for the best theory paper in the Journal of Econometrics (selection committee: Don Andrews, Robert De Jong, Bruce Hansen)
Max Weber fellowship, European University Institute, 2006-7 (awardee)
Junior Faculty fellowship, Dartmouth College, 2006-7
Rockefeller Center Research Fellowship, Dartmouth College 2004-5
Princeton-Wilson Fellowship, Princeton University, 2001-03
University Fellowship, Princeton University, 1998-2000
Inlaks Foundation Fellowship, London School of Economics, 1996-98
K.A.Naqvi Memorial Scholarship, University of Delhi, India, 1994-96
Professional Experience:
Reader in Economics and Tutorial Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford, 2009-present.
Visiting Research Fellow, Cowles Foundation, Yale University, 2006-7.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College, 2003-2009.
Consulting Experience
Econometric Consultant: Centre for Health Services Economics and Organization (CHSEO), funded by the UK Department of Health, since February 2011.
Consultant, Pew Charitable Foundation, project on Economic Mobility, August-November, 2007
Seminar/Conference Presentation
2004-5: Brown, Harvard-MIT, Econometric Society winter meeting at San Diego, NBER-NSF conference on Microeconometrics at Cambridge, Mass.
2005-6: UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Davis, Princeton University, University of British Columbia, Econometric Society Winter Meetings at Philadelphia, Econometric Society World Congress at London.
2006-7: Yale, Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Univ of Toronto, LSE, UCL, Indian Statistical Institute, Indian School of Business, Northwestern, Chicago, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Center for Applied Econometrics in Copenhagen 2007, Econometric Society Winter meetings at New Orleans.
2007-8: Chicago GSB, UCLA, Indiana (Bloomington), Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), ESRC Econometrics Study group meeting at Bristol.
2008-9: University College London, Oxford, Georgetown, World Bank, North American Winter Meetings of Econometric Society, Cemmap conference on quantile regression, Applied Microeconometrics Conference (Lincoln College, Oxford).
2009-10: Oxford, Cambridge, Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi), World Congress Shanghai, Cowles-Cemmap conference on advancing applied microeconometrics Beijing.
2010-11: UCL, Indian Statistical Institute (Kolkata), Carlos III, UPenn, Chicago Fed, Conference on active labour market programmes, Uppsala, EC2 conference, Toulouse.
2011-12: UC Davis, Birmingham (Mathematics/Statistics), NBER Education Meeting Stanford, Midwest Econometrics Meeting Chicago; Royal Economic Society Conference (Cambridge), UC San Diego, UCLA (scheduled), Conference on Identification and Decisions, Cornell (scheduled).
Refereeing
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Econometric Theory, Econometrica, Econometric Reviews, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Quantitative Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, National Science Foundation, Statistics and Probability Letters.
March 2012.