CURRICULUM VITAE FOR PUSHKAR MAITRA

Office Address: Dept. of Economics, Monash University, Clayton Campus VIC 3800, Australia.

Phone: +61 3 9905 5832

Fax: +61 3 9905 5476

E-mail: Pushkar.Maitra@BusEco.monash.edu.au

Home Page: http://www-personal.buseco.monash.edu.au/~maitra/

Education:

§ 1997, PhD, Economics, University of Southern California, USA.

§ 1992, MA. Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India.

§ 1990, BSc., Economics (Honours), Presidency College, Calcutta, India.

Employment:

§ 2006 (onwards), Professor, Dept. of Economics, Monash University, Australia.

§ 2005, Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics, Monash University, Australia.

§ 2002 – 2004, Senior Lecturer (Continuing), Dept. of Economics, Monash University, Australia.

§ 2000 – 2001, Lecturer (Continuing), Dept. of Economics, Monash University, Australia.

§ 1997 – 1999, Lecturer, Dept. of Economics, University of Sydney, Australia.

Other Professional Experience:

§ 2004, Visiting Research Fellow, Economic Growth Center, Yale University.

§ 1996, Instructor, Macroeconomics for Business, Department of Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California.

§ 1995, Instructor, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Southern California.

§ 1996, Research Assistant, Professor Selo Imrohoroglu, Department of Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California.

§ 1996, Research Assistant, Professor Caroline Betts, Department of Economics, University of Southern California.

§ 1992 – 1996, Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Southern California.

Major Fields of Interest:

Development Economics, Population Economics and Applied Econometrics.

Specific Research Interests:

Analysis of Poverty and Welfare in Developing Countries, Education and Human Capital Accumulation, Fertility, Mortality and Gender Preference, South Africa, South Asia.

Academic Awards and Fellowships:

§ 1996, Haynes Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1996-1997, University of Southern California.

§ 1995, U.C.S.C. Endowment for Research on Rural Credit Markets in Punjab, India, University of California, Santa Cruz.

§ 1992 – 1996, Teaching Assistantship, University of Southern California.

§ 1991, Prof. Naqvee Memorial Merit Scholarship for Outstanding Performance, Delhi School of Economics.

§ 1990, U. N. Ghoshal (Economics) Book Prize, First in Class, Presidency College, Calcutta.

§ 1990, J. C. Sinha (Economics) Book Prize, First in Class, Presidency College, Calcutta.

§ 1990, Govt. of India, National Merit Scholarship for Outstanding Performance in Bachelor’s Program.

Grants Received:

§ 2005, Monash Small Grants Scheme, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University; Topic: An Experimental Analysis of the Relationship between Group Size and Risk Sharing.

§ 2004, Faculty Research Grant, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University; Topic: Determinants of School Continuation: Evidence from Australia and South Africa.

§ 2004 – 2006, Australian Research Council Discovery Grant; Topic: Modelling Decision Making within the Household and Analysing its Welfare Implications: Methodological Advances with Policy Applications (with Professor Ranjan Ray and Professor Kaushik Basu).

§ 2003 – 2004, Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements, Monash University; Topic: Global Markets, Human Mobility and Social Protection. (Group headed by Professor Chris Nyland).

§ 2003, Monash Small Grants Scheme, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University; Topic: Judicial Independence, Judicial Promotion and the Enforcement of Legislative Wealth Transfers – An Empirical Study of the New Zealand High Court (with Associate Professor Russell Smyth).

§ 2002 – 2003, Australian Research Council Discovery Grant; Topic: Resource Inflows, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and their Impact on Expenditure Patterns, Child Health and Household Composition (with Professor Ranjan Ray and Professor Monojit Chatterjee).

§ 2002, Faculty Research Grant, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University; Topic: Evaluating the Impact of Health Inputs on Child Health and Mortality.

§ 2001, Faculty Research Grant, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University; Topic: Modelling Food Consumption Patterns in Developing Countries: A Case of India and South Africa (with Dr Frank Agbola and Associate Professor Keith Mclaren).

§ 2001, Faculty Research Grant, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University; Topic: Intra-Household Resource Allocation and Expenditure Patterns: Evidence from South Africa.

§ 2001, Faculty Travel Grant, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University.

§ 2000, Faculty Travel Grant, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University.

§ 2000, Faculty Research Grant, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University; Topic: Gender Preference, Probability of Subsequent births and The Duration Between Children: An Analysis of Bangladesh, Pakistan and South Africa.

§ 2000, University Research Grant, University of Sydney; Topic: Gender Preference, Probability of Subsequent births and The Duration between Children: An Analysis using data from Pakistan and South Africa.

§ 1999, Seed Grant, University of Sydney (Joint with Nils-Petter Lagerlof, University of Sydney); Topic: What do Intergenerational Transfers Tell Us about Altruism?

§ 1999, University Research Grant, University of Sydney; Topic: Motives for Income Transfers and its Effects on Household Expenditure Patterns: An Investigation of South Africa.

§ 1998, Conference and Travel Grant, University of Sydney.

§ 1998, Start-up Grant, University of Sydney.

Refereed Journal Publications:

§ Household Expenditure Patterns and Resource Pooling: Evidence of Changes in Post Apartheid South Africa (Joint with Ranjan Ray, University of Tasmania). Review of Economics of the Household. Forthcoming.

§ Gender Bias in Nutrient Intake: Evidence from Selected Indian States (Joint with Geoff Lancaster and Ranjan Ray, University of Tasmania). South Asian Economic Journal. Forthcoming.

§ The Effect of Household Characteristics on Living Standards in South Africa 1993 – 98: A Quantile Regression Analysis with Sample Attrition. (Joint with Farshid Vahid, Australian National University). Journal of Applied Econometrics. Forthcoming.

§ Endogenous Intra Household Balance of Power and its Impact on Expenditure Patterns: Evidence from India. (Joint with Geoff Lancaster and Ranjan Ray, University of Tasmania). Economica. 73(291), 2006, 435 – 460.

§ Social Learning and Norms in a Public Goods Experiment with Inter-generational Advice. (Joint with Ananish Chaudhuri, University of Auckland and Sara Graziano, Charles River Associates). Review of Economic Studies. 73(2), 2006, 357 – 380.

§ Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from China (Joint with Xiujian Peng, University of Adelaide and Yaer Zhuang, China Population Information and Research Centre). Asian Economic Journal. 20(1), 2006, 47 – 74.

§ Rural-Urban Migration, Social Protection and Informal Networks in Cape Town, South Africa. (Joint with Ana Deumert and Brett Inder, Monash University). Global Social Policy. 5(3), 2005, 303 – 328.

§ Determinants of Retirement on the High Court of Australia. (Joint with Russell Smyth, Monash University). Economic Record. 81(254), 193 – 203.

§ The Impact of Intra Household Balance of Power on Expenditure Pattern: The Australian Evidence. (Joint with Ranjan Ray, University of Tasmania). Australian Economic Papers. 44(1), 2005, 15 – 29.

§ Effect of Socioeconomic Characteristics on Age at Marriage and Total Fertility in Nepal. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. 22(1), 84 – 96.

§ The Impact of Resource Inflows on Child Health: Evidence from South Africa. (Joint with Ranjan Ray, University of Tasmania). Journal of Development Studies. 40(4), 2004, 78 – 114.

§ Judicial Independence, Judicial Promotion and the Enforcement of Legislative Wealth Transfers - An Empirical Study of the New Zealand High Court. (Joint with Russell Smyth, Monash University). European Journal of Law and Economics. 17, 2004, 209 – 235.

§ Parental Bargaining, Health Inputs and Child Mortality in India. Journal of Health Economics. 23(2), 2004, 259 – 291.

§ Resource Inflows and Household Composition: Evidence from South African Panel Data. (Joint with Ranjan Ray, University of Tasmania). Journal of International Development. 15(8), 2003, 1037 – 1047.

§ Testing for Son Preference in South Africa. (Joint with Lata Gangadharan, University of Melbourne). Journal of African Economies. 12(3), 2003, 371 – 416.

§ The Effect of Education on the Timing of Marriage and First Birth in Pakistan (Joint with Lata Gangadharan, University of Melbourne). Journal of Quantitative Economics. New Series, 1(1), 2003, 114 – 133.

§ Schooling and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Bangladesh. Education Economics. 11(2), 2003, 129 – 153.

§ The Effect of Transfers and Pensions on Household Expenditure Patterns and Poverty in South Africa. (Joint with Ranjan Ray, University of Tasmania). Journal of Development Economics. 71(1), 2003, 23 – 49.

§ The Effect of Household Characteristics on Poverty and Living Standards in South Africa. Journal of Economic Development. 27(1), 2002, 75 – 96.

§ On Choice of Agricultural Contracts in Rural India. (Joint with Ananish Chaudhuri, Washington State University). Economica. 69, 2002, 445 – 459.

§ The Joint Estimation of Child Participation in Schooling and Employment: Comparative Evidence from Three Continents (Joint with Ranjan Ray, University of Tasmania). Oxford Development Studies. 30(1), 2002, 41 – 62.

§ Two Aspects of Fertility Behaviour in South Africa (Joint with Lata Gangadharan, University of Melbourne). Economic Development and Cultural Change. 50(1), 2001, 183 – 200.

§ A Quantitative Analysis of Employment Guarantee Programs with an Application to Rural India. Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 10(2), 2001, 211 – 228.

§ Tenant Characteristics and the Choice of Tenurial Contracts in Rural India. (Joint with Ananish Chaudhuri, Washington State University). Journal of International Development, 13(2), 2001, 169 – 181.

§ Is Consumption Smooth at the Cost of Volatile Leisure? An Investigation of Rural India. Applied Economics, 33(6), 2001, 727 – 734.

§ Does Child Mortality Reflect Gender Bias? Evidence from Pakistan (Joint with Lata Gangadharan, University of Melbourne). Indian Economic Review, XXXV(2), 2000, 113 – 131.

§ A Note on the Terms of Sharecropping Contracts (Joint with