Department of Economics

FACULTY

Deepankar Basu

basu Assistant Professor
deepankar.basu@colostate.edu
C 312 Clark Building
970.491.6657
970.491.2925 Fax

Personal Site

  • B. Tech. (Mech. Engg.), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. 1994.
  • M.A. (Economics), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. 1997.
  • M.Phil. (Economics), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. 1997.
  • M.A. Economics, Ohio State University, USA. 2003.
  • Ph.D. Economics, Ohio State University, USA. 2008.

Teaching Philosophy

Two ideas inform my teaching philosophy. First, that teaching and learning are intimately connected, are part of a dialectical unity; a teacher learns as much from her/his students as they learn from her/him. Second, that the most crucial part of learning is to encourage the development of a critical attitude to everything we encounter in life, the world around us, the social institutions we are embedded in and the ideas that we use to make sense of our place in the world and society.

Research

I am an applied econometrician with research interests in macroeconomics, Marxian political economy, economic development and demography. I am currently working on two issues: (1) theoretical and empirical aspects of economic growth and technological change from a Classical-Marxian perspective, (2) son preference and gender inequality in developing economies, especially in India.

Recent Work

“Son Targeting Fertility Behaviour: Some Consequences and Determinants,” Demography, (forthcoming).

“A Note on Binary Choice Duration Models,” Economic Letters, forthcoming.

“Dynamic Multinomial Ordered Choice Models with an Application to the Estimation of Monetary Policy Rules,” (with Robert de Jong) Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Vol 11, No. 4, December 2007.

“Political economy of Middleness: Behind Violence in Rural west Bengal,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XXXVI, No. 16, April, 2001.

Working Papers

“Son Preference, Sex Selection and Missing Women in India,” February 2009.

“A Simple Test of the Neoclassical View of Production, Technical Change and Distribution,” August 2008. (Working Paper)

“Random Threshold Autoregressive Models,” March 2007 (with Robert de Jong). (Working Paper)