Research Interests
Empirical Microeconomics and Micro-econometrics
Recent Publications
Published Papers
Bhattacharya, D. and Shvets, J. Inferring Trade-Offs in University Admissions: Evidence from Cambridge, (2023) Journal of Political Economy, acceptedBhattacharya, D. and Komarova, T. Incorporating Social Welfare in Program-Evaluation and Treatment Choice, (2023) Review of Economics and Statistics, accepted
Bhattacharya, D., Dupas, P. and Kanaya, S. Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions, (2023) Review of Economic Studies, accepted
Bhattacharya, D. Nonparametric Approaches to Empirical Welfare Analysis, (2023) Journal of Economic Literature, forthcoming
Bhattacharya, D. The Empirical Content of Binary Choice Models, (2021) Econometrica, 89, 457-474
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics
Bhattacharya, D., Shvets, J. Inferring the Performance Diversity Trade-Off in University Admissions: Evidence from Cambridge, (2022) CWPE2238Bhattacharya, D. and Rabovic, R. Do Elite Universities Practise Meritocratic Admissions? Evidence from Cambridge, (2020) CWPE2056
Bhattacharya, D., Dupas, P., Kanaya, S. Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions, (2018) CWPE1885
Bhattacharya, D. Income Effects and Rationalizability in Multinomial Choice Models, (2018) CWPE1884
Bhattacharya, D. The Empirical Content of Binary Choice Models, (2018) CWPE1883
Recent Activities
Four year grant for Debopam Bhattacharya
A University of Cambridge academic at the Faculty of Economics has been awarded a four year grant to research Econometric Demand and Welfare Analysis
Published on - Monday 19th December 2022
Four new professors in Economics faculty
Four academics at the Faculty of Economics have been promoted to Professor grades at the University of Cambridge.
Published on - Thursday 16th June 2022
Cambridge Economics Alumni Webinar Series: Economic Analysis of Student Admissions
In this webinar, Dr Debopam Bhattacharya (University Reader and Fellow of Trinity College) examined the extent to which elite universities practice merit-based admissions. He was joined by Dr Aytek Erdil (University Reader and Fellow of King's College) who introduced and discussed a new proposal to redesign the UK's university admissions system.
Published on - Tuesday 23rd March 2021
Testing Meritocracy in University Admissions
Dr. Debopam Bhattacharya and Renata Rabovic (former Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Economics) have published an article for VOXeu titled "Testing Meritocracy in University Admissions". This column uses a novel, outcome-based test of merit-based admissions at Cambridge University, to look at the controversial issue of the balance between merit and diversity in university admissions.
Published on - Monday 21st September 2020
Dr Debopam Bhattacharya awarded ERC Grant
The Faculty is very pleased to announce that Dr Debopam Bhattacharya was awarded a 5-year ERC "Consolidator" grant for his project titled "Empirical Demand and Welfare Analysis (EDWEL)".
Published on - Monday 15th February 2016
Research Grants
Demand and Welfare Analysis using Micro-data (Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC))
Empirical Demand and Welfare Analysis (EDWEL) (European Reserach Council (ERC), Starting Grant)
Teaching
Part IIA Paper 3 - Introduction to Econometrics I
Part IIA Paper 3 - Microeconometrics and Macroeconometrics
PHD30 - Topics In Advanced Econometrics
PhD Students
Advisor
Jamie Moore
PhD Title:
Research: Microeconometrics, Machine Learning, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Networks
PhD Title:
Research: Microeconometrics, Machine Learning, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Networks
