2026 Gaurav Datt: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	41	2127	1922	54	49	98	13598

Overview

Gaurav Datt is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has a research focus primarily within the fields of social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance. Their scholarly work spans a variety of topics, with particular emphasis on income, poverty, and inequality, as well as energy and environmental impacts. The multifaceted nature of their investigations encompasses economic theory and policy, agricultural risk and resilience, air quality and health impacts, and education-related issues.

Datt's contributions include publications in both general and specialized journals. They have published extensively in venues such as The Journal of Development Studies, SSRN Electronic Journal, Indian Economic Review, Empirical Economics, and Comparative Education Review. Their work reflects a diverse engagement with disciplines like sociology, political science, and environmental studies.

Frequent areas of study within their portfolio include:

Social Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Subfields prominent in their research are:

Sociology and Political Science
Economics and Econometrics
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Pollution
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Key research topics covered by Datt are:

Income, Poverty, and Inequality
Energy and Environment Impacts
Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
Economic Theory and Policy
Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Agricultural risk and resilience
Air Quality and Health Impacts

Notable recent papers authored by Datt include:

"Coal Plants, Air Pollution and Anaemia: Evidence from India," 2022, The Journal of Development Studies
"Missing Women in China and India over Seven Decades: An Analysis of Birth and Mortality Data from 1950 to 2020," 2022, The Journal of Development Studies
"Progressivity and redistributive effects of income taxes: evidence from India," 2021, Empirical Economics
"Schooling and Learning Deficits: A Simple Unified Measurement Framework," 2020, Comparative Education Review
"Financing of fiscal response to COVID-19: a pragmatic alternative," 2020, Indian Economic Review (authored by Ayushi Bajaj with collaboration)

Datt collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors. Frequent collaborators include:

Ranjan Ray
Pushkar Maitra
Nidhiya Menon
Liang Choon Wang
Ayushi Bajaj

Best Publications

How important to India's poor is the sectoral composition of economic growth?

Martin Ravallion;Gaurav Datt

1822
Citations
Growth and redistribution components of changes in poverty measures : a decomposition with applications to Brazil and India in the 1980s

Gaurav Datt;Martin Ravallion

1678
Citations
Why has economic growth been more pro-poor in some states of India than others?

Martin Ravallion;Gaurav Datt

960
Citations
Is India's economic growth leaving the poor behind?

Gaurav Datt;Martin Ravallion

949
Citations
Farm productivity and rural poverty in India

Gaurav Datt;Martin Ravallion

695
Citations
Farm productivity and rural poverty in India

Gaurav Datt;Martin Ravallion

691
Citations
QUANTIFYING ABSOLUTE POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

Martin Ravallion;Gaurav Datt;Dominique van de Walle

647
Citations
Why Have Some Indian States Done Better than Others at Reducing Rural Poverty

Gaurav Datt;Martin Ravallion

457
Citations
Is India's Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind?

Gaurav Datt;Martin Ravallion

362
Citations
When is growth pro-poor? Evidence from the diverse experiences of India's states

Martin Ravallion;Gaurav Datt

270
Citations
Determinants of Poverty in Egypt

Gaurav Datt;Dean Jolliffe

260
Citations
COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR POVERTY MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS

Gaurav Datt

258
Citations
A Profile of Poverty in Egypt

Gaurav Datt;Dean Jolliffe;Manohar Sharma

249
Citations
When is Growth Pro-Poor? Evidence from the Diverse Experiences of India's States

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227
Citations
A Database on Poverty and Growth in India

Berk Özler;Gaurav Datt;Martin Ravallion;Kathleen Beegle

205
Citations
Does Maharashtra's Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment? Effects of the 1988 Wage Increase

Martin Ravallion;Gaurav Datt;Shubham Chaudhuri

194
Citations
IS POVERTY INCREASING IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

Shaohua Chen;Gaurav Datt;Martin Ravallion

184
Citations
Transfer Benefits From Public-Works Employment: Evidence for Rural India

Gaurav Datt;Martin Ravallion

181
Citations
Is Targeting Through a Work Requirement Efficient? Some Evidence for Rural India

Martin Ravallion;Gaurav Datt

170
Citations
Has India’s Economic Growth Become More Pro-Poor in the Wake of Economic Reforms

Gaurav Datt;Martin Ravallion

168
Citations
Has Poverty Declined since Economic Reforms? Statistical Data Analysis

Gaurav Datt

167
Citations
Poverty in India and Indian States: An update

G. Datt

166
Citations
The GAPVU Cash Transfer Program in Mozambique: An Assessment

Gaurav Datt;Ellen M. Payongayong;James L. Garrett;Marie T. Ruel

96
Citations
Growth and Redistribution Components of Changes in Poverty Measures

Martin Ravallion;Gaurav Datt

96
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Ravallion Georgetown University

Dean Jolliffe World Bank

John Gibson University of Waikato

Ranjan Ray Monash University

Sagnik Dey Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Kym Anderson University of Adelaide

Deon Filmer World Bank

Aart Kraay World Bank

Kathleen Beegle World Bank

Russell Smyth Monash University

External Links

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