डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्‍वविद्यालय दिल्ली
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Established by The Government of NCT of Delhi

• M.Sc. (Economics), University of Birmingham, UK.
• MA, M.Phil., PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

• Teaching Interest: Statistics, Econometrics, Advanced Econometrics, and Economic of Poverty
• Area of Research: Development economics with a particular focus on Poverty, Health and Nutitrion, and Applied Econometrics.

Journal Articles

• Ram, Krishna (2013) “Cereal Consumption as Proxy for Real Income”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 48, Isuue No. 29, July 20, 102-109
• Ram, Krishna (2017) “Explaining Calorie Consumption Puzzle in India: An Empirical Study based on National and International Data Sets since 1990s, Social Scientist 45 (9-10), 35-53.
• Ram, Krishna. (2017) “Testing Purchasing Power Parity and Uncovered Interest Rate Parity in a Multivariate Cointegration Analysis for China and India: 1993: Q1 to 2015: Q1, Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities Vol 7 (8), 228-243.
• Ram , Krishna (2019) “An Assessment of Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure and its Impact on Poverty Estimates across Caste , Class and Religion in India since the early 1990s”, Man & Development, Vol XLI, No. 4 , 51-76.
• Ram, Krishna & Yadav, S. (2022). Who Cares of Labour? An Empirical Study using PLFS data Set, Economic and Political Weekly.
• Ram, Krishna (2023). Comparative Assessment of Data on Development Schemes Available in the Public Domain: Accessibility and Openness, Journal of Applied Research in Humanities, Language, and Social Sciences.
• Ram, Krishna & Yadav, S. (2024). The Impact of Covid 19 on Poverty Estimates in India: An empirical Study across Caste, Class and Religion, Contemporary Voice of Dalit.
• Ram, Krishna & Neha (2025). Indebtedness and Cost of Credit across Social Categories in India: A Study based on AIDIS 2018-19 data set, Journal of Social and Economic Change,
• Ram, Krishna & Alha, A (2025). What Explains the High Incidence of Poverty among Dalits in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh? The Indian Economic Journal,

Book Chapter:

• Ram, K (2024).  An Inquiry of Causes and Persistence of Poverty among Dalits in Bihar. In Development with Justice (pp. 162-171). Routledge. 

Other Writings

• Key highlights of Economic Survey 2016-17, Employment News, Volume 46, 11-17Feb 2017
• GST and Demonetization Likely to be Key Drivers in the Upcoming Union Budget 2017-18, Employment News, Special Article No. 44, 28-3 Feb 2017.
• Informality : The causes of labour distress. Indian Express, April 27, 2021 https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/web-edits/informality-the-cause-of-labour-distress-7291436/?utm_source=whatsapp_web&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialsharebuttons
•  The Pandemic has worsened India’s poverty crises ( with Shivani Yadav), Indian Express, July 8 , 2021.https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/the-pandemic-has-worsened-indias-poverty-crisis-7394367/

Research Project

• Assessment of Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure and its Impact on Poverty Estimates in India: Evidence based on NSSO Data Set since 1990s, funded by ICSSR, completed in year 2019

PhD Supervision:

• Ms. Shivani Yadav (Awarded): “Role of Caste Bias and Prejudice in Inter-Group Health Inequities: A Study Based on Primary Survey in Etawah District of Utter Pradesh, India.”
• Mr. Ravinder Ram (Ongoing): “Conceptualizing Decent Living Standard and Calculation of Living Wage for Informal Workers in India”.
• Ms. Neha (Ongoing): “Inter-Group Disparities in Access to and Cost of Credit in India”

Paper Presented in Seminar/Confeence

• Indebtedness and Cost of Credit Across Social Categories in India: A Study Based on AIDIS 2018-19 Data Set” in the IEPA conference on The Past, Present and Future of ‘Inclusive Development’, held during December 16-17, 2024, at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
• Have Caste-Based Wage Inequalities Changed in Indian Labour Market in the Post-Covid Era? Insights from PLFS Data” in a ISLE conference organised by Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru during 09-11 January 2025
• An Inquiry into Causes and Persistence of Poverty Among Dalits in UP and Bihar, International Conference on Development with Justice: The Bihar Experience, Organised by Patliputra School of Economics Aryabhatta Knowledge University, Patna, 3^rd May 2023.
• Trend, Pattern and Inequality of Food Commodities Consumption in India:1993-94 to 2011-12, Banaras Hindu University (BHU),Varanasi, International conference, 16^th March 2018.
• An Assessment of Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure and its Impact on Poverty Estimates across Caste , Class and Religion in India since the early 1990s, Conference on Economic Theory and Policy, Ambedkar University Delhi, 29-31 April 2019.
• Trend, Pattern and Inequality of Food Commodities Consumption in India: 1993-94 to 2011-12, International Conference on 25 years of Economic Reforms in India, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, 16-18th March 2018
• Explaining calorie consumption Puzzle in India: An Empirical Study Based on National and International Data sets since 1990s, South Asia Economic Development: The way forward, International Conference full name of the conference, South Asia University (SAU), New Delhi, Delhi, 9th – 10 April 2015.
• Explaining calorie consumption Puzzle in India: An Empirical Study Based on National and International Data sets since 1990s, CESP-Young Scholar Seminar, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, Delhi, 9th – 10 March 2015.
• Cereal Consumption as Proxy for Real Income, International Conference, Asian Meeting of Econometric Society, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi, 20th – 22 December 2012.
• Cereal Consumption as Proxy for Real Income, CESP conference Series, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU, Delhi, 20thNovember 2012.
• Relationship Between Cereal Consumption and Real income: Its Implication in Context of Poverty Debate, International Conference, Shivaji College, University of Delhi, Delhi, 17th -19thFebrurary 2011.

Invited lectures

• Delivered a lecture on Quantitative Research Method and conducted hands on training on STATA in a training course on Research Methodology organised by Council for Social Development (CSD), New Delhi, 13-14th December 2019.
• Delivered two lectures on Quantitative Research methodology in a Course on Research Methods on Gender, Poverty and the Informal Economy’ organised by V.V Giri National Labour Institute, Sector 24, NOIDA, 4th September 2019.
• Delivered two lectures on Introduction to STATA, and Working with NSSO data set using STATA at Department of Economics, Banaras Hindu University, 12-13 July 2016.
• Delivered two lectures on linear and panel regression models in a training course on Research Methodology in Social Sciences organised by Council of Social Development (CSD), New Delhi, 15th December 2015.
• Delivered two lectures lecture on Panel Data Analysis, on a Research Methodology course organised by Council of Social Development, New Delhi, 3^rd April 2014.
• Delivered six lectures on a Research Methodology Course on Social Sciences with special focus on NSSO data extraction, ICSSR-NERC Shillong, 9-11 December 2021.
• Delivered two lectures on ARIMA model in a one-week short term course on “Recent Development in Econometrics of Programme Evaluation in Economics, on 20-21 sept 2021, organised by UGC Human Resource Development Centre, Doctor Harisingh Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar, M.P.
• Delivered two lectures on Panel Regression model using STATA” on 21st and 22ndMarch, 2023 through an online workshop session, as a part of five-day online workshop on Time Series and Panel Data Analysis using STATA, organised by Department of Economics, CHRIST University, Delhi NCR.
• Delivered two lectures on “Estimation of labour market indicators using PLFS” on June 14,2022 and June 15, 2022, in a Research Methodology workshop focusing on large data analysis, organised by G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Prayagraj, UP.
• Delivered two lectures on R Programming on a training programme  “How to Conduct Research”organised by V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Sector 2024, NOIDA, March 25^th, 2025
• Delivered two lectures on Introduction to R: Basics of Data Handling and Statistical Analysis in a workshop on Applied Workshop on Labour Force Data for Research and Policy Planning organised by  VV Giri National Labour Institute (VVGNLI), Noida In Cooperation with Shyam Lal College Evening (SLCE), University of Delhi 02 – 04 April 2025
• Delivered three lectures on Advance Level Modelling using PLFS Pooled Data in a training programme on  Advanced Level Training on PLFS Data Extraction,  organised by V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Sector 2024, NOIDA, 21 – 23 May 2025