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PhD Economics (Southern Methodist University)
Jayanta Sarkar is a Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. Born and initiated in Economics in Kolkata, he has completed his Ph.D. in Economics from Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) in 2006. After his first job as an Assistant Professor at Louisiana Tech University, he moved to Australia in 2010. His research encompasses a wide variety of topics, ranging from applied theories of economic growth and inequality to individual behaviour in health, education, financial choices, etc. He has published in top field journals such as Health Economics and general interest journals such as Economic Inquiry. He is also a regular commentator in Australian TV and news media.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology, School of Economics and Finance, Fall 2010 – Present.
Assistant Professor, Louisiana Tech University, Department of Economics and Finance, Fall 2006 – Spring 2010. Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, Fall 2004 – Spring 2006. Economic Intern and Consultant, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Summer 2002 – Winter 2002. Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, Fall 2000 – Fall 2004. Lecturer, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, Fall 1998 – Fall 1999.
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2019
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- The paper titled "What does attending early childhood program mean for child health in India?", co-authored with Dipanwita Sarkar and published in Health Economics (2017) has received the Best Paper Prize conferred by the Australian Health Economics Society in 2019. The paper was selected by an international team of reviewers from among all papers published in health economics during 2017-2018 by an Australasian author.
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- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
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- 2016
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- Invited speaker at the 18th Annual North Eastern Economic Association (NEEA) Conference, University of Gauhati, India, Dec.15-17, 2016. The title of my talk was "Emerging Issues of Research in Economics".
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- Other
- Reference year
- 2019
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- The paper "What does attending early childhood program mean for child health in India?", published in Health Economics (2017) is included as a recommended reading in the PhD course "Microeconometrics" at Southern Methodist University, USA.
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- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2016
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- Program Chair & Steering Committee Member, Workshop of the Australasian Macroeconomics Society (WAMS), joint with Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance (LAEF), University of California Santa Barbara.I organised and hosted this annual event in Brisbane jointly with colleagues from University of Queensland and Griffith University.
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- Assessor, Examiner or Supervisor Role
- Reference year
- 2019
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- Invited to be the external examiner for Masters in Research thesis, 2019.
- Sarkar, J., (2020). Occupational variation in the relationship between child health and family size. Health Economics, 29(1), 98–103.
- Nath, H. & Sarkar, J. (2019). Inflation and relative price variability: new evidence from survey-based measures of inflation expectations in Australia. Empirical Economics, 56(6), 2001–2024. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122864
- Schaffner, M., Sarkar, J., Torgler, B. & Dulleck, U. (2018). The implications of daylight saving time: A quasi-natural experiment on cognitive performance and risk taking behaviour. Economic Modelling, 70, 390–400. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/114406
- Sarkar, D. & Sarkar, J. (2017). What does attending early childhood program mean for child health in India? Health Economics (United Kingdom), 26(11), 1366–1379. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/109066
- Sarkar, J. & Sarkar, D. (2016). Why does child labour persist with declining poverty? Economic Inquiry, 54(1), 139–158. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84967
- Park, J., Sarkar, D., Sarkar, J. & Yost, K. (2013). Business in troubled waters: Does adverse attitude affect firm value? Journal of Corporate Finance, 22, 221–235. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/61205
- Nath, H. & Sarkar, J. (2009). Unbiased estimation of the half-life to price index convergence among U.S. cities. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 41(5), 1041–1046. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/44483
- Osang, T. & Sarkar, J. (2008). Endogenous mortality, human capital and economic growth. Journal of Macroeconomics, 30(4), 1423–1445. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/44288
- Sarkar, J., (2008). Mortality, fertility, and persistent income inequality. Southern Economic Journal, 75(2), 332–350. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/45360
- Sarkar, J., (2007). Growth dynamics in a model of endogenous time preference. International Review of Economics and Finance, 16(4), 528–542. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/44568