Sarthak Gaurav

Sarthak is an Assistant Professor in Economics area. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of development economics, applied econometrics, insurance markets, behavioural economics, and entrepreneurship. He has published research articles in journals such as Journal of Marketing Research, World Development, Oxford Development Studies, and Economic and Political Weekly. Prior to joining SJMSOM, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Asia Research Centre of London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi in the well-known ‘Palanpur Study’. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) and was a Visiting Doctoral Scholar at Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania in 2011.

He was also a Young Scientist at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria in 2010. He has won two ILO Research Grants, a USAID Visiting Doctoral Fellowship, and was selected by the Reserve Bank of India for participation in the 4th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences. Prior to joining IGIDR for his Ph.D., he worked as a Development Consultant at the Centre for Insurance and Risk Management at IFMR, Chennai.

Research Areas

– Agriculture

– Behavioural Economics

– Development Economics

– Risk and Insurance

Education

• Ph.D. Scholar Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (2009 — 2013)
• Utkal University