Dr. Vaidik Chakraborty

I am currently serving as Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Arts, K.R. Mangalam University. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at IIM Bangalore. My research background covers diverse topics including economic development, public health, education practice, and climate change. I am highly proficient in survey design and the use of statistical methods to analyze cross-sectional, time-series, and panel data structures. Additionally, I am adept at handling GIS tools, satellite imagery, and shapefile data for spatial analysis. My recent work has involved developing indices for primary health care and analyzing educational inequalities using large-scale datasets.

Degree	Affiliation	Year
Ph.D. in Economics	Jawaharlal Nehru University	2019-2024
M.Phil. in Economics	Jawaharlal Nehru University	2017-2019
M.Sc. in Economics	Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics	2015-2017
B.Sc. (Hons.) in Economics	University of Calcutta	2012-2015

• Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts, K.R. Mangalam University (Current)
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (Jan 2025 – Sep 2025)
• Consultant, Vakkom Moulavi Foundation Trust, Thiruvananthapuram (Apr 2024 – Dec 2024)
• Senior Research Analyst, Environmental and Resource Economics Unit, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi (Nov 2023 – Apr 2024)

• Bashir, S., Chakraborty, V., Rather, S., Jacob, S., Parkarinen, E., & Virtanen, T. (2024): ‘Separate and Unequal? Language, Curriculum and Management in Kerala’s School Education System With comparative lessons from Finland’, Report, Vakkom Moulavi Foundation Trust Publications.
• Chakraborty, V., & Mishra, U. S. (2024): ‘Sequential Ordering of Deprivations: District-Level Measurements and Cluster Mapping of Level-Sensitive Improvements in India’, Working Paper 514, CDS Working Paper Series.
• Chakraborty, V., & Mishra, U. S. (2025): ‘The Geography of Hunger: Regional Disparities in Nutritional Deprivation in India’. Economic & Political Weekly, Special Article, Vol. 60(50).
• Chakraborty, V., & Mishra, U. S. (2025): ‘Addressing Challenges in India’s Public Health Landscape: District-level Deprivations in the Public Health Infrastructure and Services’ (Submitted & under-Review).

“Role of Primary Healthcare in achieving Universal Health Coverage in India: A District-Level Design to Policy Study” – 25th Biennial Conference of Association of Indian Economic and Financial Studies (AIEFS) Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, India	July, 2025
“Sequential Ordering of Deprivations: Its Application on District-Level Measurement in India and a Cluster Mapping of Level-Sensitive Improvements” – Webinar Series Centre for Development Studies (JNU), Thiruvananthapuram, India	October, 2023
“Study of Digital Payment Instruments” – 56th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) Madurai Kamraj University, Tamil Nadu, India	November, 2019

• Fellowship: Senior Research Fellowship by the UGC, Government of India (Jan 2020 – Dec 2022).
• Fellowship: Junior Research Fellowship awarded by the University Grants Commission (UGC), Government of India (Jan 2018 – Dec 2019).
• Project: Contributed to the WHO’s “PHC4UHC” project, developing a primary health care (PHC) index.
• Project: Contributed to a multi-institutional project on Kerala’s school education system comparing insights from Finland.
• Project: Worked on the Wellcome Trust-funded project “Economic and Health Impact Assessment of Heat Adaptation Action: Case Studies from India”.