SUBHA MANI
http://faculty.fordham.edu/smani/smani/Welcome.html
Contact Details
Department of Economics
441 East Fordham Road
Dealy Hall, E 520
Bronx, New York 10458
Email: smani@fordham.edu
Cell: 215-450-4000
Personal: Citizen of India (U.S. Permanent Resident); Married
Employment:
2014-: Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Economics, Fordham University
2008-2014: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Fordham University
Other positions/service:
2014-: Research Fellow, IZA, Bonn, Germany
2014-: Editorial Board, International Journal on Biodiversity Watch
2014-: Director, Social Justice and Policy Unit, Center for International Policy Studies, Fordham University
2014-: Editorial Board, American Journal of Economics and Business Administration
2012-: Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
2011-: Research Associate, Center for International Policy Studies, Fordham University
Education:
2002-2008: Ph.D. Economics, University of Southern California
2002-2003: M.A. Economics, University of Southern California
2000-2002: M.A. Economics, Mumbai University, India
1997-2000: B.A. Economics (Honors), University of Delhi, India
Areas of Specialization:
Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, Program Evaluation, Field Experiments, Health, Education, Demography
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
[11] Georgiadis, Andreas, Liza Benny, Benjamin T Crookston, Le Thuc Duc, Priscila Hermida, Subha Mani, Tassew Woldehanna, Aryeh D Stein, and Jere R. Behrman. 2016. “Growth Trajectories from Conception through Middle Childhood and Cognitive Achievement at Age 8 Years: Evidence from Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries”, SSM -Population Health, 2 (2016): 43-54. PDF
[10] Andersen, Christopher T., Sarah A. Reynolds, Jere R. Behrman, Benjamin T. Crookston, Kirk A. Dearden, Javier Escobal, Subha Mani, Alan Sánchez, and Aryeh D. Stein, and Lia CH. Fernald. 2015. "The Juntos Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Peru Is Associated with Improved Anthropometry but Not Cognitive Achievement among Children." Journal of Nutrition, 145: 2396-405. doi:10.3945/jn.115.213546. PDF
[9] Dasgupta, Utteeyo, Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani and Samyukta Subramanian. (2015). “Choosing to be Trained: Do Behavioral Traits Matter?” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 110: 145-159. PDF
[8] Behrman, Jere R., Whitney Schott, Subha Mani, Benjamin T. Crookston, Kirk Dearden, Le Thuc Duc, Lia C. H. Fernald, and Aryeh D. Stein. “Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality: Parental Resources and Schooling Attainment and Children’s Human Capital in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam”. forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Change.
[7] Dasgupta, Utteeyo and Subha Mani. (2015). “Only Mine or All Ours: Do Stronger Entitlements Affect Altruistic Choices in the Household?” World Development, 67: 363-375. PDF
[6] Dasgupta, Utteeyo and Subha Mani. (2014). “An Interactive Introduction to Randomized Evaluation.” Perspectives on Economic Education Research, 8(1): 1-73.
[5] Dasgupta, Utteeyo and Subha Mani. (2013). “Altruism in the Household: A Pilot Study.” Economic and Political Weekly, xlviii(33): 17-19. PDF
[4] Mani, Subha. (2014). “Socioeconomic Determinants of Child Health - Empirical Evidence from Indonesia.” Asian Economic Journal, 28(1): 81-104. PDF
[3] Mani, Subha, John Hoddinott and John Strauss. (2013). “Determinants of Schooling – Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia.” Journal of African Economies, 22(5): 693-731. PDF
[2] Mani, Subha, John Hoddinott and John Strauss. (2012). “Long-term Impact of Investments in Early Schooling — Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia.” Journal of Development Economics, 99(2): 292-299. PDF
[1] Mani, Subha. (2012). “Is there Complete, Partial, or No Recovery from Childhood Malnutrition? – Empirical Evidence from Indonesia.” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 74(5): 691-715. PDF
Working papers
[1] “Learning and Earning – Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India” (with Pushkar Maitra). (under review)
[2] “Impact of NREGS on Children’s Intellectual Human Capital” (with Jere R. Behrman, Shaikh Galab and Prudhvikar Reddy). (under review)
[3] “Searching for Stability in a State Dependent World” (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Lata Gangadharan, and Pushkar Maitra). (under review)
[4] “Eliciting Risk: Firefighting in the Field” (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal)
[5] “Searching for Religious Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment among Anganwadi Workers in India” (with Utteeyo Dasgupta and Prakarsh Singh)
[6] “Caste Differences in Behavior and Personality: Evidence from India” (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal)
Grants Received (Total amount received so far = $165,952)
2016: Faculty Research Grant, Fordham University, Co-PI (Marc Conte, PI), $6,500
2015: Faculty Research Grant, Fordham University, PI, $6,392
2014: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), Co-investigator (Ramanan Laxminarayan and Jere R. Behrman, PIs), $50,612
2013: International Growth Center – India Central, PI, $15,500
2013: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), Co-investigator (Ramanan Laxminarayan and Jere R. Behrman, PIs), $3,400
2013: Grand Challenges Canada, Co-investigator (Jere R. Behrman, PI), $32,280
2012: International Growth Center – India Central, Co-PI (Pushkar Maitra, PI), $15,555
2011: Faculty Research Grant, Fordham University, PI, $6,450
2011: Fordham Undergraduate Research Grant, Fordham University, PI, $7,325
2010: Faculty Research Grant, Monash University, Co-PI (Pushkar Maitra, PI), $18,338
2010: Faculty Research Grant, Fordham University, PI, $3,600
Work in Progress
[1] “Cognitive and Non-cognitive Returns to College Quality: Evidence from India” (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal)
[2] “Catch-up Effects in Health Outcomes – Linear and Quantile Regression Estimates from Four Countries” (with Jere R. Behrman, Andreas Georgiadis, and Fan Wang)
[3] “Employment and Health Shocks: New Evidence on the Impact of Morbidity and Physical Activity Limitations from Indonesia” (with Sophie Mitra and Usha Sambamoorthi).
[4] “Barriers to Learning Spoken English: Evidence from India” (with Tarun Jain and Pushkar Maitra).
[5] Impact of a School-based Vocational Education Program on School Completion, Grade Progression and Earnings (with Namrata Tognatta).
[6] Impact Evaluation of the Magic Bus Foundation’s Sports in Girls’ Education Program in India (with Ramanan Laxminarayan, Jere R. Behrman, and Arindam Nandi) 2014 – 2019.
[7] Decomposing ADL limitations: Permanent or Transitory (with Neha Agarwal and Hans Peter Kohler)
[8] Does the Fetal Origins Hypothesis Only Hold for the Average Person? Evidence From Ramadan Fasting (with Jere Behrman and Farhan Majid)
Fellowships and Awards
Merit award, Fordham University, 2015
Merit award, Fordham University, 2014
Merit award, Fordham University, 2013
Population Association of American (PAA) best poster prize (with Utteeyo Dasgupta), 2013
Merit award, Fordham University, 2012
Faculty Fellowship, Fordham University, Spring 2012
Fellowship, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, USC, 2007-2008
Merit Fellowship, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, USC, 2006-2007
Fellowship Stipend Top Up, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, USC, 2007
Graduate Assistantship, USC, 2003-2006
Represented USC at the Asia Pacific Rim University (APRU) conference, selected by the provost’s office, USC, 2006
Travel award received from the provost’s office to present at the APRU conference, USC, 2006
Strategic Theme Summer Supplement, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, USC, 2005
Merit Fellowship, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, USC, 2002-2003
Scholarship, Department of Economics, Mumbai University, 2000-2002
Special Research Award, Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT), 2001-2002
Invited Presentations
Population Association of America Meetings, April 2016, scheduled
Rutgers University, April 2016, scheduled
University of Pennsylvania, April 2016, scheduled
Monash University, March 2016
United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), October 2015
Shiv Nadar University, August 2015
Public Health Foundation of India, July 2015
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), July 2015
Indian School of Business, June 2015
Mumbai University, June 2015
Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, November 2014
Manhattan College, November 2014
Rutgers University, December 2013
Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, December 2013
Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, December 2013
City College of New York, October 2013
Amherst College, September 2013
University of Southern California, October 2012
Hunter College, February 2012
University of Pennsylvania, February 2012
Vassar College, April 2011
Jadavpur University, August 2009
Rutgers University, October 2008
Gettysburg College, February 2008
Fordham University, January 2008
University of Melbourne, July 2007
Monash University, July 2007
United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), 2nd Project meeting on ‘Gender and Food Security’, May 2007
Conference Presentations and Workshop Participation
UNU-WIDER conference, Helsinki, Finland, October 2015
ISI-IGC Conference, New Delhi, July 2015
Population Association of America (PAA) meetings, San Diego, May 2015
American Economic Association (AEA) meetings, Boston, January 2015
Southern Economic Association (SEA) meetings, Atlanta, November 2014
Population Association of America (PAA) meetings, Boston, May 2014
Southern Economic Association (SEA) meetings, Tampa, Florida, November 2013
Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC), Boston, Massachusetts, November 2013
Society of Labor Economics (SOLE), Boston, Massachusetts, May 2013
PAA meetings, New Orleans, April 2013
American Economic Association (AEA) meetings, San Diego, California, January 2013
National Conference on Teaching Economics and Research in Economic Education, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, California, June 2011
71st International Atlantic Economic Conference, Athens, Greece, March 2011
PACDEV, Berkeley, California, March 2010
The 7th Midwest International Economic Development Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2010
Population Association of America, Detroit, Michigan, April 2009
Applied Microeconometrics workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, August 2008
Population Association of America, New Orleans, March 2008
Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC), Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2007
Association of Pacific Rim Universities Conference, Singapore, July 2006
Bureau for Research and Economics Analysis of Development (BREAD) Summer School Participant, Calgary, Canada, July 2005
Western Economic Association International, San Francisco, California, July 2005
Professional Experience
Consultant, UNU-WIDER
Consultant, Boston University
Consultant, University of Pennsylvania
Review Panel for the session titled “Household and Labor Economics” in the Agricultural and Applied Economic Association Meetings in Seattle, Washington, 2012
Member, UNDP Equator Prize Technical Advisory Committee, 2011
Speaker in a one-day workshop on “Program Evaluation” at the Salesian Mission, 2009-2011, New York
Editorial Assistant, part-time, Economic Development and Cultural Change, August 2005-August 2006
Project Consultant, part-time, United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), August 2006-May 2007
Summer Intern, full-time, Food Consumption and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), June 2005-August 2005
Summer Intern, full-time, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), June 2001-August 2001
Research Analyst, part-time, 'Jnana Prabodhini', an institute of psychology, June 1998-December 1998
Teaching Experience
Instructor, Basic Microeconomics, Fall 2008-present
Instructor, Applied Econometrics, Fall 2008-present
Instructor, Community Economic Development, Spring 2009-present
Instructor, Economics of Development, Spring 2014-present
Teaching Assistant, Economies of Less Developed Countries, Professor John Strauss, 2005
Teaching Assistant, Contracts, Organizations, and Institutions, Professor Hyeok Jeong, 2005
Head Teaching Assistant, Principles of Microeconomics, Dr. Russell Mangum, 2004
Teaching Assistant, Principles of Microeconomics, Professor Timur Kuran, 2004
Teaching Assistant, Principles of Macroeconomics, Professor Robert Dekle, 2003
Journal Refereeing
Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Development Economics, Economics of Education Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Health Policy and Planning, Journal of African Economies, Journal of Policy Modeling, Growth and Change, Economics Bulletin, African Journal of Agricultural Research, Singapore Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Economics and Human Biology, Journal of Population Economics, Social Science and Medicine, International Journal on Biodiversity Watch, BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Journal of Human Capital, World Development, BMC Nutrition, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of International Development.
Service
University level
[1] Member, Faculty Fellowship Advisory Committee, 2013
[2] Presenter, Fall Parent’s Day event, 2012
[3] Presenter, President’s Spring Preview event, 2010
[4] Member, Fulbright interview panel, 2009-11
[5] Participant, New Faculty Mentoring, 2008-2009
[6] Member, Hiring Committee for the Chief Research Officer, 2015
Department level
[1] Co-organizer, Department of Economics, Seminar Series, Fall 2010-present
[2] Organizer, Department of Economics, Seminar Series, Fall 2011
[3] Manager, Department of Economics, Discussion Paper Series, Fall 2012-15
[4] Member, Hiring Committees – Development Economics and International Economics, 2011
[5] Member, Hiring Committee – Development Economics, 2012
[6] Economics Major Adviser, Fall 2010-present
[7] Ph.D. Dissertation Reader: Maria Davalos, Frank Canovatchel, Hoolda Kim
[8] Honors Thesis Mentoring: Tyler Boston, Rose Puntel, and Alex Levine
[9] International Political Economy and Development: Co-taught workshop on program evaluation and co-led study on workforce development for the Salesian Missions (with Sophie Mitra) 2011-2012
[10] Field Trips: Sarah Scarcelli, Tyler Boston and Peter Lachman travelled with me to India for primary data collection in New Delhi, India
[11] Ph.D. Admissions Committee Member, 2014-present
[12] Masters Admissions Committee Member, 2014-present
[13] Fordham Undergraduate Research Mentoring, 2012 and 2015
Media Coverage
[1] Policy briefs of my research that appeared at www.ideasforindia.in:
[a] http://www.ideasforindia.in/Article.aspx?article_id=182
[b] http://www.ideasforindia.in/Article.aspx?article_id=165
[2] My research paper was blogged by David McKenzie at the World Bank Impact Evaluation Blog:
[3] Pedagogy in Action: the SERC portal for educators includes a description of the classroom games published in the pedagogy journal, Perspectives on Economic Education Research
[a] http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/experiments/examples/70039.html
References
John Strauss, Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, University of Southern California
KAP 300, 3620 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089
+1 213 740-7698, jstrauss@usc.edu
Jere R. Behrman, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics
Department of Economics and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
229 McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104
+1 215 898-7704, jbehrman@econ.upenn.edu
John Hoddinott, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food and Nutrition Economics and Policy
Professor of Applied Economics and Management
Professor of Nutritional Sciences
Cornell University
Room 305, Savage Hall, 410 Thurston Ave., Ithaca, NY 14853
+1 607-255-8594, jfh246@cornell.edu
Pushkar Maitra, Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Monash University
Clayton campus, VIC 3800
Australia
+61 3 9905 5832, pushkar.maitra@monash.edu