Ankush Agarwal

Agricultural Economics, Economics of Education, Health Economics and Demography, and Human Development.
Ankush joined the department in February 2013. Previously (April 2010–January 2013), he was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, where he worked primarily on agricultural output forecasting. Ankush is an engineer by training and studied economics in PhD, which he completed from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. Ankush works in the areas of agricultural economics, economics of education, health economics and demography, and human development.

BOOK

  1. (with Vikas Kumar), Numbers in India’s Periphery: The Political Economy of India’s Government Statistics. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/numbers-in-indias-periphery/FE61682...

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. (with Vikas Kumar), “Delays in the release of India’s census data”, Statistical Journal of the IAOS. forthcoming, https://content.iospress.com/articles/statistical-journal-of-the-iaos/sj...

  2. (with Tushar Agrawal), “Who Gains More from Education? A Comparative Analysis of Business, Farm and Wage Workers in India”, The Journal of Development Studies, 55:6, 1081-1098, 2019, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2018.1443209

  3. (with Chavi Asrani), “Digital Divide among the Indian households: extent and correlates”, Economics Bulletin, 38: 4, 2444-2466, 2018

  4. (with Vikas Kumar), “Cartographic conflicts within a union: Finding Land for Nagaland in India”, Political Geography, 61, pp. 123-147, 2017, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629816301913

  5. (with Bina Agarwal), “Do Farmers Really Like Farming? Indian Farmers in Transition”, Oxford Development Studies, 45: 4, pp. 460-478, 2017, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600818.2017.1283010

  6. (with Tushar Agrawal), “Vocational Education and Training in India: A Labour Market Perspective”, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 69: 2, pp. 246-65, 2017, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13636820.2017.1303785

  7. (with Vikas Kumar), “A Cartographic Mess: How much is Nagaland’s area?”,Economic and Political Weekly, XLXII: 29, pp. 18-21, 2017, http://www.epw.in/journal/2017/29/commentary/cartographic-mess.html

  8. (with M H Suryanarayana and K Seeta Prabhu), “Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index for India’s States”, Indian Journal of Human Development, 10(2), pp. 157-175, 2016, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0973703016675793 ; Working Paper version: http://www.undp.org/content/dam/india/docs/inequality_adjusted_human_dev...

  9. (with Vikas Kumar), “Infirmities in NSSO Data for Nagaland”, Economic and Political Weekly, XLIX: 12, pp. 20-22, 2014, http://www.epw.in/journal/2014/12/commentary/infirmities-nsso-data-nagal...

  10. ARTICLES IN POPULAR MEDIA

  11. (with Vikas Kumar), ‘One foot in the city, one in the village: India’s urban poor and their rural bonds’, South Asia @ LSE, May 26, 2020, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2020/05/26/one-foot-in-the-city-one-in...

  12. (with Vikas Kumar), ‘Counting urban India’, East Asia Forum, May 14, 2020, https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/05/14/counting-urban-india/

  13. (with Vikas Kumar), ‘Politics should not meddle with our official statistics’, Livemint, November 19, 2019. https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/politics-should-not-meddle...

  14. (with Vikas Kumar), ‘Data delays are denying India access to good policy’, East Asia Forum, February 10, 2018. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/02/10/data-delays-are-denying-india-a...

  15. (with Vikas Kumar), ‘Statistical mirage: Bad data to fail governance’, Deccan Herald, June 03, 2015. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/481244/statistical-mirage-bad-data-f...

  16. (with Vikas Kumar), ‘Errors in ST data unattended for decades’, Deccan Herald, May 05, 2015. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/475873/errors-st-data-unattended-dec...

  17. (with Vikas Kumar), ‘Number games in Nagaland’, The Hindu, July 12, 2012. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article3628502.ece

  18. (with Vikas Kumar), ‘How reliable is India’s official statistics’, East Asia Forum, April 06, 2012. http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2012/04/06/nagaland-s-demographic-somersaul...

  19. (with Nilabja Ghosh), ‘Little reason to comfort over foodgrains output estimates’, Business Line, February 22, 2011. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/article1477784.ece

  20. (with Anindya Sengupta), ‘Let’s do the maths on social justice’, The Indian Express, April 20, 2007. http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/28807/

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