Debopam
Bhattacharya
I am
currently an
assistant professor at the Department of Economics ,
Dartmouth College.
From September
1, 2009, I will join the Department of
Economics at the University of Oxford as University Reader (equivalent to
associate professor).
From that time,
I will also be a tutorial fellow at St.
Hilda's College .
My primary
research interest is in the econometric analysis of cross-sectional data.
A.
Sampling Problems
Inference in panel
data models under attrition caused by unobservables , Journal
of Econometrics
Asymptotic
Inference from Multi-stage Samples ,
Journal
of
Econometrics ,
Vol. 126, Issue 1, May 2005, Pages
145-171.
( Winner of the 2006
Arnold Zellner Award
for the best theory paper published in the Journal of Econometrics
in the previous two years).
B.
Allocation
Inferring Optimal Peer Assignment from
Experimental Data Journal of the American Statistical Association
Jun 2009, Vol. 104, No. 486: 486–500.
Inferring Welfare Maximizing Treatment Assignment under Budget Constraints
(REVISED VERSION, June 2009) , joint with
Pascaline Dupas , UCLA.
(Previously circulated as Nonparametric
Inference on Efficient Treatment Assignment under Budget Constraints)
C .
Income Distributions
Inference on Inequality from Household Survey Data
,
Journal of Econometrics , Vol. 137, Issue 2, April 2007, Pages 674-707.
Nonparametric
Analysis of Earnings Mobility in the US , joint with
Bhash Mazumder ,
Chicago Fed, revision requested at Journal
of Econometrics
( This
research was financially supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts)
D.
Econometric Theory
A Permutation-based
Estimator for Monotone-index Models ,
Econometric Theory , vol. 24, no. 3, June 2008, Pages 795-807.
S eemingly
Unrelated
Regression with Identical Regressors: a note , Economics
Letters , Vol. 85,
Issue 2, Pages 247-255.
(At the time of writing
this note, I was unaware of this
paper by Andrew Chesher. Working with a slightly different
motivation, he had found essentially the same result.)
