Supravat Bagli

Professor

BA Economics (Honours) (BU, 1997)

MA Economics (BU, 1999)

M. Phil Economics (BU, 2002)

Ph. D. Economics (BU, 2011)

My teaching career started in April 2005 at Deshbandhu Mahavidyalaya, Chittaranjan, Burdwan. In 2012, I joined Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal as Assistant Professor of Economics in PG Department of Economics. Currently I  teach at the Department of Economics, Presidency University, Kolkata.  

I have  experience of empirical research in issues of microfinance and human development in India. Reviewed more than ten papers for different reputed Journals in the field of social economics. Currently I work on health and gender reletated issues in the context of Indian Economy.  Before joining Presidency University I worked as Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Department of Economics, Sidho-Kanho-Bisha University.

My teaching area includes Statistics, Basic Econometrics, Public Economics and Indian Economics at under graduate level. I teach Econometric Methods with application using STATA and R and Advanced Time Series Econometrics at Post Graduate level with application using R.  In Ph. D.  program my teaching area covers Advanced Time Series Econometrics and Simultaneous Equation System.  

Ph. D Students.

1. Goutam Tewari 

Title of the Thesis: A Study of Multidimensional Poverty in Purulia District, West Bengal

Awarded on 24th November, 2020

2. Moumita Khowas  

Title of the Thesis: Efficacy of Government Expenditure on Secondary Education - A Case Study of Purulia District in West Bengal

Awarded on 15th October, 2020

3 Manoranjan Maji 

Title of the Thesis: Socio-Economic and Environmental Impact of Illegal Coal Mining in Salanpur Coalbelt of West Bengal

Awarded on 14th August, 2020

4. Senjuti Ghosh Das 

Title of the Thesis:A Study of Women’s Empowerment: Insights from the West Bengal Experience

Date of Registration March, 2021

5. Shreyasee Datta 

Title of the Thesis: Some Aspects of Healthcare Facilities and Health Insurance in India

Date of Registration: November, 2021

6. Ankita Dey

Title of the Thesis: Do Men Matter? Analysing the Effects of Spousal Reproductive Attitude on Women’s Choices – An Empirical Study

Date of Registration : 15th September, 2023

7. Indranath Chatterjee 

Unlocking the Potential: Essays on the Youth Labour Market in India

Date of Registration :12th February, 2025 

-  Life member of The Indian Econometric Society, (A Registered Society for Advancement of Quantitative Economic Research) Life Membership Number: L/2505/12-13

-  Executive Council member of The Indian Econometric Society, (A Registered Society for Advancement of Quantitative Economic Research) for 2020-21 and 2021-22

-  Life member of Bengal Economic Association (Associate member of International Economic Association), Mallick Road, Kolkata, 700047

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Book

1.      Group-Centric Microfinance for Financial Inclusion: Theories and Empirics Renu Publishers, New Delhi, 2016, ISBN 978-81-85502-13-7 (Print) ISBN 978-81-85502-14-4 (Online)

2.      Persistent and Emerging Challenges to Development, Insights for Policy-making in India, (Edited Volume), Springer Nature-Singapore,2021 ISBN 978-981-16-4180-0(print) ISBN 978-981-16-4181-7(Online)

3. Empirical Essays in Development Economics Focusing on Indian Economy: A Volume in Honour of Prof. Maniklal Adhikary, (Edited Volume), New Delhi Publishers 2025, ISBN 9789348120120 (Print) | 9789348120700 (eBook)

 Articles in Journals     

1. Demand for Health Insurance in India: An Analysis with Triple Hurdle Model, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Springer Nature, 2025
2. Demand for Health Insurance in India: Evidence from NSS 75th Round Data, Journal of Health Management, Sage, 2025
3. Health Insurance for Universal Health Coverage in India. Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, Sage, 2024
4. Women’s Empowerment and Son Preference: The Case of India. Indian Journal of Human Development. Sage, 2024
5. Multidimensional Deprivation: Cross-District Insights in West Bengal. Economic. Affairs, vol 67(05), pp 745-51 December 2022
6. Impact of Suddenly Complete Demonetization in India: A Microeconomic Analysis, Vidyasagar University Journal of Economics,  Vol 24(1) pp. 100-110, 2021
7. Financial Inclusion and Human Development: A Cross-Section Study in India, The Indian Economic Journal, Vol 61(3), pp. 390-406, 2019
8. Factors Affecting the Illegal Mining Activities in Salanpur Coalbelt of West Bengal Vidyasagar University Journal of Economics pp. Vol21(1) 75-88, 2019
9. Intensity and Inequality of Multifaceted Deprivation of the States in India The Asian Economic Review, Vol.57 No. 4, pp 119-136 December, 2015,
10. Multidimensional Poverty: An Empirical Study in Bankura District, West Bengal” Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 327-342,  2015
11. FDI inflow and Economic Growth in India An Empirical Analysis, Economic Affairs, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 23-33, March, 2014 .
12. An Insight into the Financial Inclusion of the States in India Journal of Social and Economic Development, Vol.15, No.1, pp-50-66 January-June 2013
13. Self-Help Group Movement: An Instrument of Livelihood Security, (A Case Study of Tribal Households in Bankura District) Indian Journal of Economics, Vol. XIVC, No. 372, July 2013, pp. 89-112

Articles in Edited Books

1.      Does Geography Matter for Empowering Women? A State Level Spatial Analysis in India, in Empirical Essays in Development Economics Focusing on Indian Economy: A Volume in Honour of Prof. Maniklal Adhikary,  eds S. Bagli & R.J. Sarkar (chapter 13), pp.203-220, New Delhi Publishers, 2025

2. Multidimensional Poverty in Rural India: An Exploratory Study of Purulia District. in ‘Persistent and Emerging Challenges to Development- Insights for Policy-making in India’ eds. S. Bagli, et.al, (Chapter 11) Springer Nature, Singapore, 2021

3.  Incidence of Wasted Pregnancy and Health Facilities: An Empirical Study of the Indian Women. in ‘Persistent and Emerging Challenges to Development- Insights for Policy-making in India’ eds. S. Bagli, et.al, (Chapter 9) Springer Nature, Singapore, 2021 

4.      Health Deprivation of Children: Positions of the Backward Districts in West Bengal, in S.K. Jana et.al eds “Inclusive Growth and Backward Region Development, Sectoral Issues, Serial Publications

5. India’s Demonetization, 2016: Microeconomic and Macroeconomic Consequences in “The Impacts of Monetary Policy in the 21st Century: Perspectives from Emerging Economies” ed  R.C.Das,  Emerald Publishing Limited

6. Poverty and Inequality of SHG-Member Households: Evidence from Villages in North Andaman Island in Handbook of Research on Microfinancial Impacts on Women Empowerment, Poverty, and Inequality, ed.  R.C. Das, IGI Global, 2019

7. A Study of Multidimensional Poverty in Northeast India in ‘Inequality, Poverty and Development in India- Focus on the North Eastern Region’, by U. De, et.al (Eds) Springer Nature, Singapore, 2017, pp 189-206

8.  Health and Empowerment of Graduate Women: A Case Study of Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal in ‘Dynamics of Higher Education’ K. Das (Ed) Regal Publications New Delhi, 2016 pp 117-131 

9.  Impact of Participation in Self-Help-Groups on Economic Condition of the Rural Poor in West Bengal in ‘Rural Development in India Challenges and Prospects’ M. Ghosh & A. K. Chattopdhyay (Eds), Serial Publications, New Delhi, 2013, pp. 315-332

10. A Study of Food Security in India” in Growth and Diversification Aspects of Rural Development ed. P. K. Chattopadhyay, New Delhi Publishers, 2014, pp 73-88 New Delhi

11.  Self-Help Groups and Livelihood Security: A Case Study of Tribal Households in Bankura District in Facets of Sustainable Development: Some Issues for the Third World ed A. Sengupta, Regal Publication, pp 183-201, New Delhi, 2014

12. Responsiveness of Fuel Prices to the Volatility in International Crude Oil Prices: A Study of Different Phases of Diesel Pricing Policy in India,  in  Empirical Essays in Development Economics Focusing on Indian Economy: A Volume in Honour of Prof. Maniklal Adhikary,  eds S. Bagli & R.J. Sarkar (chapter 4), pp.51-70, New Delhi Publishers, 2025