RESEARCH PAPERS
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Published /Accepted Works
"Attitudes and Institutions: Contrasting Experiences of JFM in India", Environment and Development Economics, 9(4), August, 2004: 563-577.
"Contextual Factors and Common Pool Resources: Evolution of a Fishermen's Co-operative in Calcutta", Ecological Economics, 50(3-4), October, 2004: 201-217.
"Norms, Rules and Co-operation: The Creation of CPR Institutions" in Prof Ratan Khasnobis ed "Issues in Sustainable Development", Dept of Business Management, Calcutta University, 2002: 47-67.
"Privatising the Commons: A Critical Review of the Property Rights Paradigm", International Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2004: 83-100.
"Spread of Primary Education Amongst Low Income Muslims: A Survey of Slum Dwellers in Calcutta", in a volume of articles edited by Provat Dutta to be published in 2004, by Institute of Development Studies Kolkata. The complete report is also available online.
"Analysing demand for primary education: A case study of Muslim slum dwellers of Calcutta", in Economic and Political Weekly, 8 January 2005.
"Health Care Expenditure of Coal Mine Workers: A Case Study in West Bengal" has been published in Journal of Health Management, Sage Publishers, 5(1), 2003: 85-109. [First author: Dr. Debasish Sarkar, WBES]
"Occupational Diseases and their Determinants: A Study of Coal Mine Workers in West Bengal", Management and Labour Studies, XLRI, 28(3), August, 2003: 227-240. [First author: Dr. Debasish Sarkar, WBES]
"Occupational Diseases and Provisioning of Health care: A Case of Market Failures in Coal Mining", The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 47(2), 2004.: 219-236 [First author: Dr. Debasish Sarkar, WBES]
"Untapped demand for heritage: A CV study of Prinsep Ghat, Calcutta" is forthcoming in Tourism Management, 28(1), 2005.
Mimeographs \ Papers communicated
"Collective action in an embedded choice model: A study of fishing co-operatives of Calcutta" communicated to Environment and Development Economics. This paper was presented at International Conference on Environment and Development Economics, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in 7-8 April, 2005 and in Fourth Biennial Conference on Ecology and Well-being organised by Indira Gandhi Institute of Development and Research, Mumbai and India Society for Ecological Economics, 3-4June 2005.
"Commons and Commoners: A re-examination of community in Common Pool Resources" communicated to Journal of Theoretical Politics.
"Gradation of Built Heritage of Calcutta: An application of Multi-Criteria Decision Making" [co-authored with Mousumi Dutta, Senior Lecturer, Economics Department, Bethune College] has been communicated to Land Economics. This paper has been presented in International Conference on Environment and Development Economics, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in 7-8 April, 2005 and in Conference on Economic Valuation of Environmental Goods and Services organised by Dept of Business Management, Calcutta University.
Revised version of "Economics of Conservation of Built Heritage: A CVM study of some heritage sites of Calcutta" [co-authored with Mousumi Dutta, Senior Lecturer, Economics Department, Bethune College] communicated to Indian Economic Review, in September 2005.
"Optimal Health Care Strategy in Coal Mines: An Economic Analysis" communicated to Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in March, 2005. [First author: Dr. Debasish Sarkar, WBES]
"Educating the Girl Child: Gender Disparities in Educational Decisions of Muslim Slum Dwellers of Calcutta" has been communicated for publication in edited volume to be published by Sage in 2006 circa.
Working Papers
"Commons and Commoners: Caste and Accessibility in a Multiple Use Water Body"
"The Neglected Role of Demand: Re-examining Methodological Foundations of CPR Theory"
"Collective Action and Contextual Factors: Studies of Fishermen Co-operative in Calcutta"
"Demand for Primary Education Among Low Income Muslims of Calcutta", Working Paper 1/2003-4, published by Institute for Development Studies Kolkata.
"Commercialisation versus Preservation: A CV study of South Park Street Cemetery" [co-authored with Sarmila Banerjee and Mousumi Dutta] Working Paper No. 1/2003, Dept of Economics, Calcutta University.
"Commercialisation versus Preservation: A CV study of South Park Street Cemetery" [co-authored with Sarmila Banerjee and Mousumi Dutta] Working paper No. 2/2003, Dept of Economics, Calcutta University.
"Untapped Demand for Heritage Tourism: A CVM Study of Prinsep Ghat, Calcutta" [co-authored with Prof Sarmila Banerjee and Mousumi Dutta] Working Paper 3/2003, Dept of Economics, Calcutta University.
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