Publications

by members of

Economic Research Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
Calcutta, India

Working papers

2009

1. Barua, Rana & Chakravarty, Satya R. & Roy, Sonali, 2009. "A Note on the Carreras-Coleman Decisiveness Index," Staff General Research Papers 13012, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
2. Walter Bossert & Satya R. Chakravarty & Conchita D'Ambrosio, 2009. "Multidimensional poverty and material deprivation," Working Papers 129, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. [Downloadable!]
3. Satya R. Chakravarty & Bhargav Maharaj, 2009. "Measuring polarization by reduced-form indices," Working Papers 135, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. [Downloadable!]
4. Satya R. Chakravarty & Bhargav Maharaj, 2009. "A study on the RQ index of ethnic polarization," Working Papers 134, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. [Downloadable!]

2008

1. Walter Bossert & Satya R. Chakravarty & Conchita D’Ambrosio, 2008. "Poverty and Time," Working Papers 87, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. [Downloadable!]
2. BOSSERT, Walter & CHAKRAVARTY, Satya R. & D’AMBROSIO, Conchita, 2008. "Poverty and Time," Cahiers de recherche 2008-05, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques. [Downloadable!]

2007

1. Barua, Rana & Chakravarty, Satya R. & Roy, Sonali & Sarka, Palash, 2007. "A characterization and some properties of the Banzhaf-Coleman-Dubey-Shapley sensitivity index," Staff General Research Papers 12807, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
2. Barua, Rana & Chakravarty, Satya R. & Roy, Sonali, 2007. "On the Coleman indices of voting power," Staff General Research Papers 12810, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
3. Barua, Rana & Chakravarty, Satya R. & Roy, Sonali, 2007. "Measuring Power in Weighted Majority Games," Staff General Research Papers 12809, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
4. Chakravarty, Sanya R. & Majumdar, A. & Roy, Sonali, 2007. "A treatment of absolute indices of polarization," Staff General Research Papers 12811, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
5. Barua, Rana & Chakravarty, Satya R. & Roy, Sonali, 2007. "A new characterization of the Banzhaf index of power," Staff General Research Papers 12808, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.

2005

1. Chakravarty, Satya R. & Majumder, Amita, 2005. "Intersociety Literacy Comparisons," Working Papers RP2005/01, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER). [Downloadable!]

2004

1. Ranjan Ray & Amita Majumder & Dipankor Coondoo & Geoffrey Lancaster, 2004. "Derivation of Nutrient Prices from Household level Food Expenditure Data: Methodology and Applications," Econometric Society 2004 Australasian Meetings 170, Econometric Society. [Downloadable!]

2003

1. Satya R. Chakravarty & Conchita D'Ambrosio & Pietro Muliere, 2003. "Target Shortfall Orderings and Indices," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 340, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
2. Satya R. Chakravarty & Conchita D'Ambrosio, 2003. "The Measurement of Social Exclusion," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 364, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]

2002

1. François Bourguignon & Satya R. Chakravarty, 2002. "Multi-dimensional poverty orderings," DELTA Working Papers 2002-22, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure). [Downloadable!]

1998

1. Chakravarty, S.R., 1998. "Efficient Horizontal Mergers," DELTA Working Papers 98-18, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure).
2. Bourguignon, F. & Chakravarty, S.R., 1998. "The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty," DELTA Working Papers 98-12, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure).
3. Bourguignon, F. & Chakravarty, S.R., 1998. "A Family of Multidimensional Poverty Measures," DELTA Working Papers 98-03, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure).
4. Chakravarty, S.R. & Mukherjee, D., 1998. "Measures of Deprivation and their Meaning in Terms of Social Satisfaction," DELTA Working Papers 98-17, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure).

Journal articles

2009

1. Satya Chakravarty & Swami Tyagarupananda, 2009. "The subgroup decomposable intermediate indices of inequality," Spanish Economic Review, Springer, vol. 11(2), pages 83-97, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Satya R. Chakravarty, 2009. "Equity and efficiency as components of a social welfare function," International Journal of Economic Theory, The International Society for Economic Theory, vol. 5(2), pages 181-199. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Satya R. Chakravarty, 2009. "Deprivation, Inequality And Welfare," The Japanese Economic Review, Japanese Economic Association, vol. 60(2), pages 172-190. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Nachiketa Chattopadhyay & Amita Majumder & Dipankor Coondoo, 2009. "Demand Threshold, Zero Expenditure And Hierarchical Model Of Consumer Demand," Metroeconomica, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 60(1), pages 91-118, 02. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2008

1. Chakravarty, Satya R. & Deutsch, Joseph & Silber, Jacques, 2008. "On the Watts Multidimensional Poverty Index and its Decomposition," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 36(6), pages 1067-1077, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2007

1. Chakravarty, Satya R. & Silber, Jacques, 2007. "A generalized index of employment segregation," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 53(2), pages 185-195, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Satya Chakravarty, 2007. "A deprivation-based axiomatic characterization of the absolute Bonferroni index of inequality," Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer, vol. 5(3), pages 339-351, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Satya R. Chakravarty & Amita Majumder & Sonali Roy, 2007. "A Treatment Of Absolute Indices Of Polarization," The Japanese Economic Review, Japanese Economic Association, vol. 58(2), pages 273-293. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2006

1. Satya R. Chakravarty & Conchita D'Ambrosio, 2006. "The Measurement Of Social Exclusion," Review of Income and Wealth, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 52(3), pages 377-398, 09. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Barua, Rana & Chakravarty, Satya R. & Roy, Sonali, 2006. "On the Coleman indices of voting power," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 171(1), pages 273-289, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Satya Chakravarty & Ravi Kanbur & Diganta Mukherjee, 2006. "Population growth and poverty measurement," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer, vol. 26(3), pages 471-483, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Amita Majumder & Saugata Basu, 2006. "Impact of Unequal Sharing of Household Resources on Poverty measurement: A Study of Four Indian States," Indian Economic Review, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, vol. 41(2), pages 113-127, December.

2005

1. Rana Barua & Satya R. Chakravarty & Sonali Roy, 2005. "A New Characterization Of The Banzhaf Index Of Power," International Game Theory Review (IGTR), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 7(04), pages 545-553. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2004

1. Barua, Rana & Chakravarty, Satya R. & Roy, Sonali & Sarkar, Palash, 2004. "A characterization and some properties of the Banzhaf-Coleman-Dubey-Shapley sensitivity index," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 49(1), pages 31-48, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Satya R. Chakravarty & Pietro Muliere, 2004. "Welfare indicators: a review and new perspectives. 2. Measurement of poverty," Metron - International Journal of Statistics, Dipartimento di Statistica, Probabilità e Statistiche Applicate - University of Rome, vol. 0(2), pages 247-281. [Downloadable!]
3. D. Coondoo & A. Majumder & R. Ray, 2004. "A Method of Calculating Regional Consumer Price Differentials with Illustrative Evidence from India," Review of Income and Wealth, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 50(1), pages 51-68, 03. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2003

1. Satya R. Chakravarty, 2003. "A Generalized Human Development Index," Review of Development Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 7(1), pages 99-114, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Satya R. Chakravarty & Pietro Muliere, 2003. "Welfare indicators: A review and new perspectives. 1. Measurement of inequality," Metron - International Journal of Statistics, Dipartimento di Statistica, Probabilità e Statistiche Applicate - University of Rome, vol. 0(3), pages 457-497. [Downloadable!]
3. Satya R. Chakravarty & Patrick Moyes, 2003. "Individual welfare, social deprivation and income taxation," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 21(4), pages 843-869, 06. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. François Bourguignon & Satya Chakravarty, 2003. "The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty," Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer, vol. 1(1), pages 25-49, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Majumder, Amita & Chakrabarty, Manisha, 2003. "Relative cost of children: the case of rural Maharashtra, India," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 25(1), pages 61-76, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2001

1. Chakravarty, Satya R & Majumder, Amita, 2001. "Inequality, Polarisation and Welfare: Theory and Applications," Australian Economic Papers, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 40(1), pages 1-13, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1998

1. Chakravarty, Satya R & Mukherjee, Diganta, 1998. "Lorenz Domination, Utilitarian Deprivation Rule and Equal Sacrifice Principle," The Manchester School of Economic & Social Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 66(5), pages 521-31, December.
2. Chakravarty, Satya R., 1998. "Efficient Horizontal Mergers," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 82(1), pages 277-289, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Chakravarty, Satya R. & Mukherjee, Diganta, 1998. "Optimal subsidy for the poor," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 61(3), pages 313-319, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1997

1. Satya R. Chakravarty, 1997. "On Shorrocks' Reinvestigation of the Sen Poverty Index," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 65(5), pages 1241-1242, September.

1996

1. Majumder, Amita & Chakravarty, Satya R., 1996. "Achievement and improvement in living standards," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(1), pages 189-195, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1995

1. Chakravarty, Satya R., 1995. "A note on the measurement of mobility," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 48(1), pages 33-36, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1992

1. Majumder, Amita, 1992. "Measuring Income Responses: A Log-Quadratic Demand Model for Consumers in India," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 17(2), pages 315-21.

1990

1. Majumder, Amita & Chakravarty, Satya Ranjan, 1990. "Distribution of Personal Income: Development of a New Model and Its Application to U.S. Income Data," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 5(2), pages 189-96, April-Jun. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Chakravarty, Satya R. & Dutta, Bhaskar, 1990. "Migration and welfare," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 6(1), pages 119-138, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1989

1. Chakravarty, Satya R., 1989. "The optimum size distribution of firms," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 18(1), pages 99-105, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1988

1. Chakravarty, Satya R, 1988. "Extended Gini Indices of Inequality," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 29(1), pages 147-56, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Chakravarty, Satya R., 1988. "On the separable industry performance evaluation function," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 27(2), pages 179-182. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Majumder, Amita, 1988. "A note on optimal commodity taxation in India," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 27(2), pages 167-171. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1987

1. Chakravarty, Satya Ranjan & Dutta, Bhaskar, 1987. "A note on measures of distance between imcome distributions," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 41(1), pages 185-188, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Coondoo, Dipankor & Majumder, Amita, 1987. "A System of Demand Equations Based on Price Independent Generalized Linearity," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 28(1), pages 213-28, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Amita Majumdar, 1987. "Use of Pooled Data- An Empirical Note on Demand Analysis," Indian Economic Review, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, vol. 22(1), pages 79-93, January.

1984

1. Chakravarty, S. R., 1984. "Normative indices for measuring social mobility," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 15(1-2), pages 175-180. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Chakravarty, S. R. & Chakraborty, A. B., 1984. "On indices of relative deprivation," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 14(2-3), pages 283-287. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1983

1. Satya Ranjan Chakravarty, 1983. "Ethically Flexible Measures of Poverty," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 16(1), pages 74-85, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Chakravarty, Satya R., 1983. "A new index of poverty," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 6(3), pages 307-313, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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