Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Development Studies, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, University of Calcutta, Dec.2017- Nov. 2023.
Thesis: Parental migration and Child Well-being - A study of Indian States, Supervisor: Prof. Subrata Mukherjee.
Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) in Development Studies (specialization in Regional Development), Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, University of Calcutta, 2015-2017.
Dissertation: Morbidity and Nutritional Status among Children of 6-11 Years of age in Urban Settings: A Study of North Kolkata.
Post Graduate Diploma in Applied GIS and Remote Sensing (Geoinformatics), Jadavpur University, 2015-2016.
Master of Science (M.Sc) in Geography, Presidency University (specialization in Regional Development and Planning), 2013-2015.
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Geography (Hons.), University of Calcutta, 2010-2013.

Work Experience

Assistant Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies, September 2025 - Present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Data Sciences and Analytics, School of Social Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Sep. 2024 - Aug. 2025.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Oct. 2023 - Sep. 2024.
Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (Project: The impact of male out-migration on women's financial autonomy and child well-being in rural West Bengal, Funded by: ICSSR), Apr. 2022 - Sep. 2023.
Research Assistant, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (Project: Reconceptualising Domestic Violence: Discourses within the Women’s Movement, Funded by: ICSSR), Jul. 2017- Jun. 2018.

Area of Research

Migration studies, Labour studies (particularly labour migration, labour force participation, wage gap), gender studies, and child health (nutritional health, morbidity and psychological health) and education.

Scholarships/Grants/Awards

NDIC-NCAER Student Research Grant, NCAER, New Delhi for the project ‘Migration, Gender Disparity and Child Well-being’ Nov. 2018- Oct. 2019).
Swami Vivekananda Single Girl Child Fellowship for Ph.D. in Social Sciences, University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi (Sept. 2018- Mar. 2023).
Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Fellowship for PhD in Development Studies, ICSSR, New Delhi, 2020 (not taken).
National Eligibility Test (NET) for Assistant Professor, conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education, India (Nov. 2017).
State Eligibility Test (SET) for Assistant Professor, conducted by West Bengal College Service Commission, India (Dec. 2017).
Institute Fellowship for M.Phil in Development Studies from Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, University of Calcutta (Mar. 2016-Feb. 2017).
Post Graduate Indira Gandhi Scholarship for single girl child, University Grants Commission, New Delhi (2013-2015).
Certified by Aces Infotech (P) Ltd with A+ Grade in the Computer Education Programme in Std. XI, Calcutta Airport English High School, 2007.

Membership

Life Member, Indian Health Economics and Policy Association (IHEPA).

Book Chapters

1. Chakraborty, M. & Mukherjee, S. (Forthcoming). From Trash to Treasure: How Bengali Migrant Workers in Bengaluru find Opportunity in Scraps. India Migration Report 2025. Editor: S. Irudaya Rajan, Routledge.
2. Chakraborty, M. & Mukherjee, S. (2023). Association between parental migration and undernutrition among the children left behind in rural Empowered Action Group (EAG) States, India. Chapter 9. In Mahapatro, S., Mishra, U.S. and Swain, S., ‘Health and Nutrition of Women and Children in Empowered Action Group States of India, Status and Process’ (1st ed.), Routledge. Doi: 10.4324/9781003430636

Journal Papers

1. Chakraborty, M. & Mukherjee, S. (2025). Does parental migration affect children’s health in rural India? A fresh look at retrospective data using LASSO Regression Method. SN Social Sciences, Springer. 5(1): 1-24. Doi: 10.1007/s43545-024-01034-0.
2. Chakraborty, M. & Mukherjee, S. (2024). Does Parental Out-Migration affect Nutritional Health Status and Morbidity among Children? Evidence from India Human Development Survey data for the Empowered Action Group States. Journal of Health Management, Sage, 26(4): 1-21. Doi: 10.1177/09720634241236843.
3. Chakraborty, M., Mukherjee, S. & Dasgupta, P. (2022). Bengali Migrant Workers in South India: An enquiry into their Earning, Living and Struggles during Covid Pandemic. Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer. 65(2): 425-443. Doi: 10.1007/s41027-022-00374-w.
4. Pal, B.K., Mishra, S.V., Haque, M. & Chakraborty, M. (2021). Reading variegated dispossession in an Asian megacity. Housing, Theory and Society, Taylor and Francis. 39(2): 217-237. Doi: 10.1080/14036096.2021.1901780.
5. Chakraborty, M. & Ghosh, S. (2020). Factors Influencing the Nutritional Status Among Children of 6 to 11 Years of Age: A Case Study from an Indian Megacity, Journal of Health Management, Sage, 22 (1):78-95. Doi: 10.1177/0972063420908394.
6. Chakraborty, M. & Ghosh, S. (2019). Common Childhood Morbidity and Treatment Seeking Behaviour in an Indian Megacity: A Case Study of North Kolkata, Journal of Indian Anthropological Society, 54 (1 & 2):30-50.
7. Dhali, M.K., Chakraborty, M. & Sahana, M. (2019). Assessing spatio-temporal growth of urban sub-centre using Shannon’s entropy model and principal component analysis: A case from North 24 Parganas, lower Ganga River Basin, India, The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Elsevier, 21(3):201:235. Doi: 10.1016/j.ejrs.2018.02.002.

Bulletin

1. Chakraborty, M., & Mukherjee, S. (2020). Bengali migrant workers during pandemic and lockdown. Monthly Bulletin of The Asiatic Society, 49(9), 73-75. September, 2020.

Reports and Occasional Papers

1. Chakraborty, M. & Mukherjee, S. (2023). The cumulative effect of parental migration on the educational outcomes of children in rural West Bengal: Combining India Human Development Survey and a primary survey data. Occasional paper no. 80, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), August 2023.
2. Chakraborty, M., Mukherjee, S. and Dasgupta, P. (2020). Bengali Migrant Workers in South India: An Enquiry into their earnings and living. Occasional Paper no. 70, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). March, 2020.
3. Mukherjee, S., Dasgupta, P., Chakraborty, M., Biswas, G. & Mukherjee, S. (2020). Vulnerability of Major Indian States Due to COVID-19 Spread and Lockdown. Special Series on COVID-19. Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). June, 2020.
4. Chakraborty, M. & Mukherjee, S. (2019). Migration, Gender Disparity and Child Well-being, Student Grantee Report Number 03, Report submitted to NCAER National Data Innovation Centre, New Delhi: National Council of Applied Economic Research.

Articles featured in Newsletters

1. Chakraborty, M. & Mukherjee, S. (2025). Does parental migration affect children’s health in rural India? A fresh look at retrospective data using LASSO Regression Method. Featured in IHDS Newsletter, February 2025. NCAER, New Delhi and University of Maryland, USA.

Newspaper Articles

1. Chakraborty, M. & Mukherjee, S. (2020). A losing situation. Millennium Post. August 24, 2020.
2. Chakraborty, M. & Mukherjee, S. (2020). They come to Bengaluru for a life in rag picking. Deccan Herald. July 29, 2020.
3. Chakraborty, M. & Mukherjee, S. (2020). We are getting work in Kerala but what about home? in EI-SAMAY Newspaper on July 15, 2020 (in vernacular).
4. Chakraborty, M. & Mukherjee, S. (2020). Will there be end of misery of the migrant workers in EI-SAMAY Newspaper on June 1, 2020 (in vernacular).

Conferences/ Seminars

1. International Conference on Empirical Economics organized by Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, USA, 2-3 August 2025. Title: Does parental out-migration reduce the risk of undernutrition for children left-behind? A study of rural West Bengal, India.
2. 64th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Labour Economics organised by University of Hyderabad, 29-31 March, 2024. Title of the paper: Gender disparity in unpaid domestic and care work and female labour force participation in India: A Regional Analysis.
3. 11th Annual Conference of the Indian Health Economics and Policy Association on “Health Policy: Advancing Research and Communication” organised by Flame University, Pune, 18-19 January, 2024. Title of the paper: Beyond remittances: The effect of Parental Migration on Psychological Health of Children who stays behind in rural West Bengal, India.
4. International Conference on Labour Migration and Sustainable Development in Asia: Opportunities, Challenges and Way forward organised by South Asia Centre for Labour Mobility and Migrants (SALAM), International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, 1-3 June, 2023. Title of the paper: The impact of male out-migration on women’s financial autonomy and child well-being in West Bengal.
5. National Seminar on Covid-19 in India and Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges, Responses and Way Forward organised by A.N.Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna in collaboration with Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, 14-15 March, 2022. Title of the paper: Bengali Migrant Workers in South India: An Inquiry into their Earnings, Livings and Struggles during Covid Pandemic.
6. One day Seminar organised by Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, 14 February 2020. Title of the paper: Bengali Migrant Workers in South India: An Inquiry into their Earnings and Livings (presented jointly with Subrata Mukherjee and Priyanka Dasgupta).
7. Eighth Annual Conference of the Indian Health Economics and Policy Association (IHEPA) on “Social Determinants of Health” organised by NISER, Bhubaneswar, 23-24 January 2020. Title of the paper: Does Parental Out-Migration Affects Health Status of Children Left behind? A Study of West Bengal.
8. International Seminar on “Maternal and Child Health in Empowered Action Group states: Sustainable Development Goals Perspective” organised by A. N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna in collaboration with UNICEF, Bihar and TCI-Cornell University, USA, 5th and 6th April, 2019. Title of the paper: Parental migration and child health status and access to health care in Empowered Action Group (EAG) states in India.
9. Seventh Annual Conference of Indian Health Economics and Policy Association (IHEPA) on “Strengthening Public Health Systems in the Context of Universal Health Coverage” organised by Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram & Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, 24th and 25th January, 2019. Title of the paper: Parental migration and its effect on children’s health status and access to health care services in India.
10. UGC Sponsored National Level Seminar on “Development Induced Changes, Environmental Concerns and Sustainable Management” organised by Department of Geography, Rabindra Bharati University, 10th and 11th March, 2017. Title of the paper: Nutritional Status and Morbidity among Children of 6 to 11 years age in Urban Settings: A Study of North Kolkata.
11. National Seminar on “Geography: A Science of Man and Environment” organised by Foundation of Practising Geographers (Formerly Indian Geographical Foundation) & Anthropological Society of India, 24th and 25th February, 2017. Title of the paper: Nutritional Status and Morbidity among Children of 6 to 11 years age in Urban Settings: A Study of North Kolkata.
12. UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Gender Issues in India: Challenges and Strategies” organised by Saheed Kshudiram College in collaboration with Alipurduar Mahila Mahavidyalayay, 9th and 10th February, 2017. Title of the paper: The Dynamics of Women’s Participation in Indian Legislature: A Case Study of West Bengal and Kerala.
13. UGC-CPE Sponsored International Seminar on “Gender and Empowerment” organised by Department of Geography, Bijoy Krishna Girls College in collaboration with School of Women Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 16th and 17th December, 2016. Title of the paper: Does women’s own earning really enhance her decision-making power in household activities? - A study of Dakshin Dinajpur, West Bengal.
14. UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Environment and Sustainability, a Geographical perspective” organised by Department of Geography, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Mahavidyalayay, 18th and 19th November, 2016. Title of the paper: Dynamics of urbanization using Earth Observation Techniques: A study of North 24 Parganas, India
15. National Seminar on “Remote Sensing and Environment” organised by School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University in collaboration with Council and Department of Science and Technology, Government of West Bengal, 20th-22nd March, 2014.

Invited lectures / Others

1. Invited as a Discussant in a session in the Rashtriya Ekta National Seminar on Revisiting Sardar Patel: Agrarian Reform and Social Justice in Contemporary India sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research held at School of Social Sciences, Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences on August 23, 2025.
2. Invited as a Chairperson and Discussant in two sessions on ‘Health, Education and Welfare’ at the International Conference on Empirical Economics, organized by Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, USA, 2-3 August 2025.
3. Invited as a Resource Person in the Indian Health Economics and Policy Association’s (IHEPA) Winter School on Health Economics to be held in the Department of Economics, Tripura University, February 17-21, 2025.
4. Invited as a Panellist in a Session ‘Migration and Labour (with special emphasis on Informal Labour)’ in the One Day Workshop on Global Protection of Refugees and Migrants: Climate Change, Informal Labour and Worldwide Protection Mechanism jointly organised by Calcutta Research Group (CRG), Institute of Development Studies (IDSK) and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 5th June, 2022.
5. Invited as a Discussant in a Session ‘Gender and Migration’ in the The First Annual Conference on Internal Migration on COVID-19, Economic Disruption and Employment and Livelihoods of Internal Migrants organised by The International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD), 16th August, 2021.

Ph.D. Supervision

1. Sayan Das (ongoing). Tentative title: The Labour Migration Puzzle: Unpacking Internal Mobility, Economic Opportunities and Informal Labour Market in India [MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences]
2. Srijita Bhowmick (ongoing). Tentative title: Exploring under-five child mortality in India [MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences]

M.Sc. Project Supervision

1. Supervised three master’s students on the project titled 'Impact of Maternal Health on Early Childhood Health Outcomes in India: A District-level Analysis'. Status: Completed (Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, 2025).

Referee of International and National Journals

Journal of Child and Family Studies (Springer); Social Science and Medicine (Elsevier); Journal of Social and Economic Development (Springer), BMC Public Health (Springer); BMJ Open; Qeios; Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland); Open Science Journal; Springer Book Proposal.

Teaching

1. M.Sc. 1st Semester: Advanced Statistics (core); Applied Econometrics (core), MSRUAS
2. M.Sc. 2nd Semester: Introduction to Geoinformatics (elective); Research Methodology (core), MSRUAS
3. B.Sc. 6th Semester: Research Methodology (skill enhancement), MSRUAS
4. B.Sc. 4th Semester: Fundamentals of Geoinformatics (skill enhancement), MSRUAS

Other academic roles

1. Research and Ph.D. Coordinator, Department of Data Sciences and Analytics, School of Social Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences (December 2024- August 2025).
2. Developed Research Methodology courses for M.Sc 2nd Semester, Department of Data Sciences and Analytics, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences.
3. Designed and introduced a new course i.e., “Geoinformatics” for the Masters students (2nd Semester and 3rd Semester) and set up laboratory with ArcGIS Pro 10.8.2 Software, MSRUAS.

Available on request