TIRTHATANMOY DAS
Room: BA2 302L, Department of Economics,
College of Business Administration,
University of Central Florida,
4336 Scorpius Street, Orlando, FL, USA 32816
Phone: 407-823-2078
E-mail: Tirthatanmoy[email protected]
Current Academic Positions:
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Central Florida, 2014-Present.
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2013-Present.
Previous Positions :
Assistant Professor of Economics (Instructional Track), Temple University, 2012-2014.
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India,
Summer 2013.
Senior Economist, Oxus Research and Investments, New Delhi, India, 2005-2007.
Economist, Oxus Research and Investments, New Delhi, India, 2003-2005.
Education :
Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton, 2012.
M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 2009.
M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 1998.
B.Sc. (HONORS), Economics, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India 1996.
Research Fields
:
Labor Economics, Econometrics, Health Economics, Behavioral Economics.
Publications:
Articles
“Micro and Macro Implications of Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital”
(with Solomon W. Polachek and Rewat Thamma-Apiroam), forthcoming in Jour-
nal of Political Economy.
.
“Unanticipated Effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Program” (with Solomon
W. Polachek) forthcoming in Contemporary Economic Policy.
“Pre-and Post-Reform India: A Revised Look at Employment, Wages and Inequality”
(with Surjit S. Bhalla), India Policy Forum, Vol II, Issue 1, pp 183-254, 2005.
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Books
Mid-Year Review of the Economy, 2006-2007 : India at a Structural Break (with
Surjit S. Bhalla and Rohit Choudhry), Shipra Publications, ISBN 8175413697, India.
Working Papers :
“Beating Work Stress: Role of Psychological Abilities and Aging in Choice of Occu-
pational Stressfulness”, 2014.
“Estimating Labor Force Incomers and Outgoers: An Augmented Two Tier Stochastic
Frontier Estimation Approach”, 2014.
“Does Rising Supply of Skilled Labor Raise Demand For Skill Biased Technology?: Ev-
idence from U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1970-1990” (with Subal C. Kumbhakar),
2012.
“Why Be Afraid of the Truth? Poverty, Inequality and Growth in India, 1983-2000”
(with Surjit S. Bhalla), Oxus Research and Investments, New Delhi, 2004.
Research in Progress :
“A Stochastic Frontier Model with a Power-Transformed Inefficiency Error Term”
(with Richard A. Hofler).
“Effect of Labor Laws On Educational and Health Outcomes” (with Surjit S. Bhalla).
“Does Self-esteem Matter for Employment Search Intensity?” (with Douglas Web-
ber).
“Does Self-esteem Matter for Occupational Choices?” (with Kabir Dasgupta).
Other Writings :
The Loo of Public Spending (with Surjit S. Bhalla), Business Standard, India, April
5, 2005.
Teaching Experience :
Graduate Courses
ECO 6416: Applied Business Research Tools, University of Central Florida, Fall 2014
ECON 8190: Econometrics(Panel Data), Temple University, Spring 2014
ECON 8104: Labor Economics, Temple University, Fall 2013
ECON 8104: Labor Economics, Temple University, Fall 2012
ECON 503: Mathematical Analysis For Economists, SUNY Binghamton, Fall 2011
ECON 503: Mathematical Analysis For Economists, SUNY Binghamton, Fall 2010
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Undergraduate Courses
ECO 4412: Econometrics, University of Central Florida, Fall 2014
ECON 1101: Macroeconomic Principles, Temple University, Spring 2014
ECON 1102: Microeconomic Principles, Temple University, Fall 2013
ECON 1101: Macroeconomic Principles, Temple University, Spring 2013
ECON 1101: Macroeconomic Principles, Temple University, Fall 2012
ECON 360: Microeconomic Theory, SUNY Binghamton, Summer 2011
ECON 360: Microeconomic Theory, SUNY Binghamton, Summer 2010
Professional Activities :
Refereeing Activity:
Research in Labor Economics.
Presentations:
-Department of Economics Seminar, University of Central Florida, Oct 31, 2014.
-Department of Economics Seminar, University of Central Florida, Oct 3, 2014.
-Department of Economics Seminar, Rutgers University, Mar 24, 2014.
-Department of Economics Seminar, Binghamton University, Oct 11, 2013.
-Department of Economics Seminar, Temple University, Oct 4, 2013.
-Department of Economics Seminar, Temple University, Sep 7, 2012.
-The Society of Labor Economists Poster Session, 17th Annual Meetings, Chicago,
May 4-5, 2012.
-New York Camp Econometrics VII, Apr 13-15, 2012.
-Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics poster session, ASSA Annual
Meetings, Chicago, Jan, 6-8, 2012.
-Southern Economic Association, 81st Annual Meetings, Nov 19-21, 2011.
-Missouri Valley Economic Association, 48th Annual Meetings, Oct 20-22, 2011.
-IZA Workshop: Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Bonn, Jan 25-27, 2011.
Conference Discussant:
Missouri Valley Economic Association, 48th Annual Meetings, Oct 20-22, 2011
ASSA Annual Meetings, Jan 4-6, 2013.
Membership:
The American Economic Association.
Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships :
-Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, State University of New York at Binghamton,
Spring 2012.
-Honorarium for presenting paper at Southern Economic Association, 81st Annual
meetings at Washington D.C., November 19-22, 2011.
-Departmental Nomination, Graduate Student Representative at Southern Economic
Association 81st annual meetings, November 19-22, 2011.
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-Graduate Student Instructorship (Ph.D. level, and Undergraduate courses), Depart-
ment of Economics, State University of New York at Binghamton, Summer and Fall
2010, 2011.
-Research Assistantship, Department of Economics, State University of New York at
Binghamton, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009.
-Teaching Assistantship, Department of Economics, State University of New York at
Binghamton, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2007, Spring 2008.
-National Educational Test (Eligibility for College and University Teaching), Univer-
sity Grants Commission, Government of India, December, 1999.
Computer Skills :
Operating Systems and Softwares:
Windows, Linux; STATA, R, MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, LaTeX.
Global Optimization Algorithms:
Genetic Algorithm, Simulating Annealing, Scatter Search.
