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Manasi Bera

Manasi Bera
Office Telephone : +91-22-69096515
Email id : manasi@igidr.ac.in
 
 

Dr. Manasi Bera is a postdoctoral fellow at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. Her current research focuses on commuting behaviour in India and the associated factors. Her research interest includes labour market dynamics, social exclusion and inequality, gender and work, migration and development, and public policy. She has expertise in quantitative research and interest in mixed methods. Dr. Manasi obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and MPhil and MA from the University of Calcutta. Before joining IGIDR, she worked as Assistant Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus. She has also worked as a researcher at the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, and Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, Delhi. Her doctoral research work was supported by UGC fellowship. The Indian Society of Labour Economics awarded her the Sanjay Thakur Young Labour Economist Award in 2018.

  • Bera, M., Dubey, A. and Malhotra, S. “Revisiting Earnings Differentials across Socio-Religious Groups in the Regular Salaried Employment in India”, The Indian Economic Journal, (Forthcoming).
  • Olsen, W., Bera, M., Dubey, A., Kim, J., Wiśniowski, A and Yadav, P. “Hierarchical Modelling of COVID-19 Death Risk in India in the Early Phase of the Pandemic”, The European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 32, pp. 1476-1503, 2020.Doi:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-020-00333-5
  • Bera, M. and Dubey, A. “Structure and Changes in Household Income and Employment across Social Groups in Rural India”, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 407–435, 2020. Doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s41027-020-00215-8
  • Bera, M. and Dubey, A. “Economic Development and Migration in Uttar Pradesh during 2000s”. Labour and Development, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 50-77, 2017.

 

Working paper(s)

  • Bose, S., Bera, M. and Ghosh, P. “Centre-State Spending on Elementary Education: Is it Complementary or Substitutionary?” NIPFP Working Paper No. 320, 2020

 

Book chapter(s)

  • Olsen, W., Bera, M., Cascella, C., Dubey, A., Kim, J., Williams, Z. & Yadav, P. “Labour, Gender and Work in the Regions of India During the Covid-19 Period.” In Lygia Sabbag Fares and Pedro Henrique Evangelista Duarte (Eds.). Decent Work or Decent Income? ‘Corona crisis’ experiences, Labour & Globalization Series. Volume 24. Rainer Hampp Verlag, Augsburg, 2021.
  • Bera, M. and Dubey, A. “Does Caste matter in Business Earnings in India? Comparing States from Three Regions with Different Socio-economic and political Settings”, In Simantini Mukhopadhyay and Achin Chakraborty (Eds.). Aspects of Inequality, Routledge. (Forthcoming)

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