UMass Boston

Development economics, Political Economics, Welfare Economy, Microeconomics 

PhD, Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

• Sripad Motiram (2019) “Incomplete Contracts, Power and Efficiency: A Theoretical Analysis,” Studies in Microeconomics, 7 (22), pp. 173-188.
• Sripad Motiram and Vamsi Vakulabharanam (2019) “On the Measurement of “Grayness” of Cities,” in Indraneel Dasgupta and Manipushpak Mitra (eds.) Deprivation, Inequality and Polarization: Essays in Honour of Satya Ranjan Chakravarty, Singapore: Springer.
• Vamsi Vakulabharanam and Sripad Motiram (2019) “Role of Urban Inequality in the Phenomenon of Rising Wealth Inequality in India, 2002-2012,” in T. Haque and D. Narasimha Reddy (ed.), India Social Development Report 2018. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Sripad Motiram (2018) “Inequality of Opportunity in India: Concepts, Measurement and Empirics,” Indian Journal of Human Development, 12 (1), pp. 1-12.
• Sripad Motiram and Karthikeya Naraparaju (2017) “Unemployment Burden and its Distribution: Theory and Evidence from India,” Review of Development Economics, 22 (2), pp. 787-807.
• R. Nagaraj and Sripad Motiram (2017) (ed.) Political Economy of Contemporary India, Cambridge University Press.
• Vamsi Vakulabharanam and Sripad Motiram (2016)“Mobility and Inequality in Neoliberal India,” Contemporary South Asia, 24 (3), pp. 257-270.
• Sripad Motiram and Karthikeya Naraparaju (2015) "Growth and Deprivation in India: What Does Recent Evidence Suggest on "Inclusiveness"?," Oxford Development Studies, 43 (2), pp. 145-164.

Sripad Motiram held positions at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada) and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai (India) before joining University of Massachusetts, Boston in 2015. He has also been a visiting fellow at the King’s College London (UK), World Institute of Development Economics Research (United Nations University, Helsinki), University of Bologna (Italy) and the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.

His research falls into four themes: (i) Urbanization in developing countries, particularly the impact of processes of economic liberalization and globalization, (ii) Welfare Economics: distributional analysis, inequality of opportunity, poverty, unemployment etc., (iii) Political economy of India, and (iv) Problems with current organizational forms of production and distribution, and alternatives to them. He has taught courses in microeconomics and development economics at both graduate and undergraduate levels. He has also taught international economics and mathematical methods to graduate students and econometrics to undergraduate students. In addition, he has given lectures on some topics (e.g. Indian economy) to both graduate and undergraduate students.

One of his main non-academic interests is running. He has run the TCS New York Marathon, Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, and Nykredit Copenhagen Marathon. He has also run several half-marathons and shorter races.