Shatakshee Dhongde

Personal Information

·         Department of Economics, 01-1336, Rochester Institute of Technology,

One Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623

·         E-Mail: shatakshee.dhongde@rit.edu

·         Web page: http://people.rit.edu/sxdgse/

·         Indian Citizen, Application for Permanent Residency Approved.

 

Academic Employment

·         Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, 2006-to-date

·         Lecturer, University of California, Riverside, 2004-2005.

·         Teaching Assistant, University of California, Riverside, 2000-2004.

·         Research Intern, United Nations University, World Institute of Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER), Helsinki, Finland, 2002

 

Research Interests

·         Development Economics

·         Defense Economics

·         Applied Econometrics

 

Education

·         Ph.D. in Economics 2005

  • University of California, Riverside
  • Dissertation: Essays On Growth, Income Distribution And Poverty
  • Advisors: Prof. Prasanta Pattanaik and Prof. Aman Ullah
  • Best Graduate Student Research Award, University of California, Riverside

·         M.A. in Economics 1999

  • Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India
  • First Rank and First Class with Distinction (A+)

·         B.A. in Economics 1997

  • University of Pune, India
  • First Class with Distinction (A+)

 

Awards and Scholarships

·         Best Graduate Student Research Award

·         University of California, Riverside (2005)

·         For excellent quality of graduate student research

·         Five awardees selected each year from among all the graduate students at UC Riverside

·         International Students Scholarship Award

  • Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in Southern California (2003)
  • Award given to foreign graduate students of academic excellence
  • Awardees selected from among all foreign graduate students studying in universities in southern California

·         Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship Award

  • University of California, Riverside (1999-2004)

·         Gold Medal – Prestigious Pandurangi Award

  • Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (1999)
  • For securing First rank in M.A. Economics

·         J. N. Tata Endowment Scholarship for Studies Abroad

  • Mumbai, India (1999)
  • Around 100 scholars selected for postgraduate, doctoral studies and research abroad from more than 1000 applicants

·         B.D.Bangur Trust Award for Studies Abroad

  • Calcutta, India (1999)
  • Loan scholarships offered to Indian nationals to undertake studies abroad

 

Grants and Awards

·         Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Multidisciplinary modeling of socio-economic influence on adversarial intent to acquire, proliferate and use chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons, Sub-Contract 2009-2011, Principal Investigator

 

Refereed Journal Publications

 

·         Dhongde Shatakshee and Bao Yong (2009) “Testing Convergence in Income Distribution”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 71. No. 2

 

·         Dhongde Shatakshee (2007) “Measuring the Impact of Growth and Income Distribution on Poverty in India”, Journal of Income Distribution, Volume 16. No. 2

 

·         Dhongde Shatakshee “A Poverty Segregation Curve” submission under review

 

·         Dhongde Shatakshee and Chambers Dustin “A Non-Parametric Measure of Poverty Elasticity” submission under review

 

Refereed Book Chapters

 

·         Dhongde Shatakshee “Measuring Global Poverty”, peer-reviewed essay in The International Studies Association Compendium ed. R. Denemark, Blackwell Publishing, UK, forthcoming

 

·         Dhongde Shatakshee and Pattanaik Prasanta (2009) “Preference, Rational Choice and Utility” invited chapter in “Amartya Sen”, in the series Contemporary Philosophy in Focus ed. C. Morris, Cambridge University Press

 

·         Dhongde Shatakshee (2006) “Decomposing Spatial Differences in Poverty in India”, peer-reviewed chapter in “Spatial Disparities in Human Development: Perspectives from Asia” ed. R. Kanbur, A. Venables, and G. Wan, United Nations University Press

 

Working Papers

 

·         Dhongde Shatakshee and Camelia Minou “Global Relative Poverty”

 

·         Dhongde Shatakshee and Nathaniel Bush  “Spatial and Time Series Analysis of CBRN incidents”

 

Teaching Experience

·         Lecturer

  • Principles of Microeconomics
  • Intermediate Microeconomics
  • Economics of Less Developed Countries
  • Game Theory: Applications to Economics
  • International Finance
  • Introductory Statistics and Econometrics
  • Research Methods in Business and Economics

·         Teaching Assistant

  • Microeconomics – introductory and intermediate
  • Macroeconomics – introductory and intermediate
  • Econometrics- graduate level

 

Presentations at Conferences

·         Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference, Tufts University (2009)

·         Singapore Economic Review Conference, Singapore (2009)

·         Conference on Frontiers of Poverty Analysis, organized by United Nations University, Helsinki (2008)

·         Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference, Yale University (2003)

·         Annual James Young Colloquium, University of California, Riverside (2003)

·         Conference on the Origins of Wealth and Persistence of Poverty in Modern World, The University of California Group in Economic History, Irvine (2002)

·         Conference on Spatial Inequality in Asia, Jointly organized by Cornell University, London School of Economics, and United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan (2003)

 

Seminars

·         Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai (2009)

·         Binghamton University, Binghamton (2008)

·         Cornell University, Ithaca (2007)

·         Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi (2007)

·         Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi (2007)

·         Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics, Pune (2007)

·         Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York (2005)

·         University of Utah, Salt Lake City (2005)

·         University of California, Riverside (2003, 2004)

·         World Institute of Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland, (2002)

 

Professional Service

·         Professional Meetings

  • Junior Faculty Mentoring workshop organized by American Economic Association (CSWEP), Atlanta (2010)
  • Session Chair, Growth Session at American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta (2010)
  • Discussant, Northeast University Development Consortium Conference, Tufts University (2009)

 

·         Peer Review for Journals

  • Journal of Economic Inequality
  • World Development
  • Review of Income and Wealth
  • Journal of International Trade and Economic Development
  • Empirical Economics
  • Journal of African Economies
  • Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics
  • Journal of Indian Society of Probability and Statistics

 

·         Peer Review for Grant Applications

  • DTRA Basic Research Program

 

·         Professional Membership

  •  American Economic Association
  • Committee on Status of Women in Economics Profession