Debopam Bhattacharya
Address: Department of Economics
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
Fax: (603) 646-2122
Phone: (603) 359-5994 (cell)
website: www.dartmouth.edu/~debopamb
email: debopam@dartmouth.edu
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: Econometric Theory and its Applications
Published Papers
1. Inferring Optimal Peer Assignment from Experimental Data, Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 2009, Vol. 104, No. 486: 486–500.
2. Inference in panel data models under attrition caused by unobservables, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 144 (2), June 2008, Pp 430-446.
3. A Permutation-based Estimator for Monotone-index Models, Econometric Theory, vol. 24, number 3, June 2008, Pages 795-807
4. Inference on Inequality from Household Survey Data , Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 137, Issue 2, April 2007, Pages 674-707.
5. 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).
6. Seemingly Unrelated Regression with Identical Regressors: a note, Economics Letters, Vol. 85, Issue 2, Pages 247-255.
1. Nonparametric Analysis of Earnings Mobility in the US, joint with Bhash Mazumder, Chicago Fed, revision requested at the Journal of Econometrics
(This research is being financially supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts)
2. Inferring Welfare-Maximizing Treatment Assignment under Budget Constraints, joint with Pascaline Dupas, UCLA.
Work in Progress
1. Detecting treatment misallocation
(joint with Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University)
2. A nonparametric Bayes approach to efficient treatment assignment under budget constraints
3. Structural analysis of optimal peer assignment in classrooms
(joint with Jane Cooley, University of Wisconsin)
Honors and Fellowships:
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:
Visiting Research Fellow, Cowles Foundation, Yale University, 2006-7.
Consultant, Pew Charitable Foundation, project on Economic Mobility, August-November, 2007.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College, 2003-present
Invited Seminars
2003-4
University of Rochester, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Dartmouth College.
2004-5
Brown, Harvard-MIT, NBER-NSF conference on Microeconometrics at Cambridge, Mass.
2005-6
UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Davis, Princeton University, University of British Columbia
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.
2007-8
Chicago GSB, UCLA, Indiana (Bloomington), Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
2008-9
University College London, Oxford, Georgetown, World Bank
Refereeing
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Econometrica, Econometric Theory, Econometric Reviews, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, National Science Foundation.
Conference Presentations
Econometric Society summer meeting at Nortwestern University 2003, Econometric Society winter meeting at San Diego 2004, Econometric Society Winter Meetings 2005 at Philadelphia, Econometric Society World Congress at London 2005, Center for Applied Econometrics in Copenhagen 2007, Econometric Society Winter meetings at New Orleans, ESRC Econometrics Study group meeting at Bristol 2008, North American Winter Meetings of Econometric Society (2009), Cemmap conference on quantile regression (2009).
June, 2009.