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Job Title: Research Officer Contact Details: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Oxford Department of International Development Queen Elizabeth House (QEH), University of Oxford Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB, Tel: 01865 281718. suman.seth@qeh.ox.ac.uk |
Biography
Suman Seth is a Research Officer at the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI), Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University. He joined OPHI in June 2010 after completing his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, USA. His primary interest lies in the area of Development Economics with special emphasis on the issues of measurement methodologies and policy oriented applications of multidimensional welfare and poverty indices.
Areas of Expertise
Development Economics, Measurement of Multidimensional Welfare and Poverty, Applied Microeconomics, Microeconometrics
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Vanderbilt University, USA, 2010
M.Phil. in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 2004
M.Sc. in Economics, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India, 2002
B.Sc. (Hons.) in Economics, Bidhan Nagar College, Kolkata, India, 2000
Selected Publications
“Inequality, Interactions, and Human Development,” Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Vol. 10 (3), 375 – 396, November 2009
“Collecting capability data on the basis of existing surveys: The case of India,” Maitreyee, Number 14, June 2009
“Determining BPL Status: Some Methodological Improvements”, (with Sabina Alkire), Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol. 2(3), 407 – 424, 2008
“Do Government Agencies Respond to Market Pressures? Evidence from Private Prisons,” (with James F. Blumstein and Mark A. Cohen), Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, Vol. 15(3), p. 446 – 477, 2008
Link to Website
Link to Suman Seth’s profile at Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University
Honours
Social Science Dissertation Fellowship, College of arts and science, Vanderbilt University, 2009-2010
Wiebke Kuklys Prize 2008 for the best paper presented by a graduate student, Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) Annual Conference, September 2008
Kirk Dornbush Summer Research Award, Vanderbilt University, Department of Economics, Summer 2007
