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Sangeeta Bansal

Sangeeta Bansal

Sangeeta Bansal
Sangeeta Bansal
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for International Trade & Development
School of International Studies
Room No
211, SIS II
Off. Phone
011-26704357
Email
sangeeta@mail.jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/sbansal
Qualifications

Ph.D. 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Environmental Economics, Information Economics, Game Theory, Agricultural Economics,  Economics of Labeling 

Experience

Jawaharlal Nehru University: From 2004 onwards
Maitreyi College: 1991 - 2004

Awards & Honours

           Editor, Agricultural Economics, July 2022 onwards.

Co-editor, Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, January 2012 onwards.

Fellowship to visit ETH Zurich, as a Visiting Scientist, April-June, 2022.

Founding Board Member, International Committee for Women in Agricultural Economics, 2020 onwards.

Member, Board of Directors, International Association of Agricultural Economists, 2022 onwards.

Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellowship, 2013-14.

NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) Fellowship to visit Tilburg University, under ICSSR-NWO India- Netherlands Social Science Scholar Exchanges, 2009-10.

Grant for participating in the European Summer School on Dynamic Models in Environment held at Venice, Italy, 2004.

External Expert, Scientific Committee, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, Government of India.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

A database on gender-disaggregated information on agricultural economists and social scientists working in the area of agriculture and rural development, 2022,  Sponsored by International Association of Agricultural Economists, IAAE.

Examining Contribution of Corporate Social Responsibility Expenditure in India towards Achieving Economic Development and Sustainable Development Goals, (2022-2024), sponsored by ICSSR.

Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility Expenditure in India: Effect of    New Regulation Regarding Mandatory CSR (2015-2016), Sponsors: South Asian network of Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE).

Eliciting farmers’ preferences for drought tolerant rice seeds in India (2012-2014), Sponsors: International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA.

Strategic information transmission under rational models of social learning (with Sjak Smulders, Tilburg University, Netherlands).

Labeling genetically modified foods in India: Economic Consequences in Four Food Marketing channels (2008-09), Sponsors: International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA.

Labeling of GM Foods: An Experiment in India (2007), Sponsors: International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA.

Preparing Teaching Material in Environmental Economics with an International Dimension (2007-08), Sponsors: Vi UNCTAD.

The Economic Effects of Labeling GM Foods (2006), Sponsors: International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1 Tax-Subsidy Policies in the Presence of Environmentally Aware Consumers, (with S. Gangopadhyay), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, 45 (2), 333-355, (2003).

2. Incentives for Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Mandate, Peer Pressure and Crowding-Out Effects, (with Madhu Khanna and Joe Sydlowski), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, (105), 102382 (2021).

3. Enhancing Energy Efficiency of Indian Industries: Effectiveness of the PAT Scheme (with Hena Oak), 2022, 113, 106220, Energy Economics.

4. Choice and Design of Regulatory Instruments in the Presence of Green Consumers,” Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, 30 (3), 345-368, (2008).

5. Information and Signaling Impacts of Labels: Experimental Evidence from India on GM Foods” (with S. Chakravarty, and B. Ramaswami), Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press, 1-22 (2013).

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Corporate Social Responsibility: Motivations and Effectiveness in Developing Countries (with Madhu Khanna) International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2024 Vol. 18: No. 1-2, pp 123-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/101.00000165

Heterogeneous Effects of Obesity on Life Expectancy: A Global Perspective (with Yanhong Jin), Annual Review of Resource Economics 2023 15:1, 433-   554.

How will climate change affect ambient air pollution and what can policy-makers do now? Lessons from India (Avraham Ebenstein, Sangeeta Bansal, Sagnik Dey, Tanya Gupta, Kshitij Abhay Kakade, Avi Simhon) Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 39, Issue 4, Winter 2023, Pages 810–827, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grad041

Does research performance explain the “leaky pipeline” in Indian academia? A study of agricultural and applied economics (with Viswanathan, B., & Meenakshi, J. V.), 2023, Agricultural Economics, 54, 274–288. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12744

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.