Karthick V

• National Eligibility Test (NET) in Economics, conducted by National Testing Agency, University Grants Commission (UGC), 2018. 

• National Eligibility Test (NET) in Agricultural Economics, conducted by Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), 2017. 

• National Eligibility Test (NET) in Economics, conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education, University Grants Commission (UGC), 2015. 

• (2025) Gender and Caste Nexus: Occupational Segregation across Indian Megacities. National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). Retrieved from https://ncaer.org/publication/gender-and-caste-nexus-occupational-segregation-across-indian-megacities/

• (2025) Putting a price on carbon in ASEAN and East Asia: Are consumers willing to pay? ERIA Discussion Paper No. 549. Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. https://www.eria.org/publications/putting-a-price-on-carbon-in-asean-and-east-asia–are-consumers-willing-to-pay- 

• (2020) “Determinants of Agricultural Credit in Rural India by Social Group,” ISEC Working Paper Series 490, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, pp.1-22. http://www.isec.ac.in/wp490.htm (ISBN 978-81-946531-6-5)

• (2020) “Whether Caste Impedes Access to Formal Agricultural Credit in India? Evidence from NSSO Unit Level Data,” ISEC Working Paper Series 478, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, pp.1-21. http://www.isec.ac.in/wp478.htm (ISBN 978-81-945114-4-1)

• (2023) “Covid-19, Inequality, and Marginalised Sections in India”, in Sustainable Transitions in India: Progress and Directions, (eds) Arun JV & Premkumar A, Kalpaz Publications, New Delhi, ISBN: 978-93-5722-279-2 (HB), Pp:183-194. https://www.gyanbooks.com/index.php?p=sr&format=fullpage&Field=bookcode&String=1111026495206&Book=Sustainable%20Transitions%20in%20India%20Progress%20and%20Directions 

(2022) “Caste Discrimination in Agricultural Credit Markets”, a chapter in India Discrimination Report 2022, (ed) Amitabh Kundu, published by Oxfam India, pp.48-53. https://www.oxfamindia.org/knowledgehub/workingpaper/india-discrimination-report-2022 

Project Investigator, Ongoing Project: “Social Exclusion in the Rural Agricultural Credit Market: A Study of Karnataka”, funded by the Karnataka Adijambava Development Corporation, Government of Karnataka, (November 2024 —April 2025).

Co-Project Investigator, Ongoing Project: “Impact Assessment of SCSA/TSA Schemes”, funded by Social Welfare Department, Government of Karnataka, (August 2024 —April 2025).

• Delivered a lecture, “One Day Training Programme on Research Methodology on Social Science Research for Graduate Students”, Organized by Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Research, Dharwad, Karnataka, (26 June, 2025). 

• Delivered a lecture, “75 Years of Constitution in India: Whether Constitutional Rights and Public Policies Eliminated the Discrimination in The Case of Agricultural Credit Market?”, organized by Centre for Dalit Studies, Hyderabad & Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi, (19 March 2025). 

• Delivered a lecture, “Relevance of Large Data in Social Sciences Research”, at the Social Science Talent Search Scheme (SSTSS) Orientation Program at ISEC, organized by the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, Karnataka, (9 March 2025). 

• Resource Person, “Use of Econometric Models in Social Science Research”, during the Three-Week Refresher Course/Capacity Building Training Programme on the Use of Modern Tools in Social Science Research for faculty members and PhD scholars, Organized by Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Research, Dharwad, Karnataka, (03 March 2025).

• Guest lecture, “Role of Agriculture in Economic Development”, organized by VIT-AP School of Social Sciences & Humanities (VISH), VIT-AP University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, (15 November 2024). 

• Delivered a lecture, “Relevance of NSSO data in Social Sciences”, at the Social Science Talent Search Scheme (SSTSS) Orientation Program at ISEC, organized by the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Karnataka, (1 April 2024). 

• Delivered lectures, “Sample Selection Models, Heckman Sample Selection, Double hurdle models, Regression-based Decomposition models, Propensity Score Matching Method”, at the three-day national training workshop (part of Golden Jubilee Celebrations) on Micro-econometrics for Survey data, organized by Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, (13—15 March 2024). 

• Delivered a lecture, “National-level Household Survey Data NSSO, IHDS etc., – Extraction and Application using Stata” at the three-day National level Workshop (part of Golden Jubilee Celebrations) on Data Science and Information Technologies for Social Scientists, organized by Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, (10 August 2023).

• Delivered a lecture, “Castes in India and Its Impact on Society”, to the students of the Department of Geography of Southfield College, Darjeeling, West Bengal, (3 June 2023).

• Delivered a lecture, “Public Policy issues with respect to Access to Agricultural Credit in India”, to the students and Research scholars of VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, (29 April 2023).

• Delivered a special lecture, “Inequality due to Covid-19 among social minorities”, at the Two-Day National level online seminar on COVID-19 Crisis and Sustainable Development Goals in India: Pathways for Adaptation and Resilience (sponsored by ICSSR-SRC, Hyderabad), Government Arts College for Men (Autonomous), Nandanam, Chennai – 600 035, Tamil Nadu, (19—20 October 2022).

• Delivered a lecture, “Basics of Regression Analysis”, to the master’s degree students at Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, (23 December 2021). 

• Resource Person, “Discrimination in Access to Credit”, at the Three-Day National level online Research Methodology Workshop on Measurement of Discrimination: Market and Non-market Institutions, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi, in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, South Asia, (1—3 September 2021).

Panel Speaker, “Public Policy Issues with Respect to Access to Agricultural Credit in India”, during the National Seminar on Fostering Rural Prosperity Through Agricultural Entrepreneurship, Organized by IQAC & Research Development Cell, Department of Economic & Commerce of Lakshmi Soma Bangera Government First Grade College, Kota-Padukare, Centre for Multidisciplinary Development Research Dharwad and Geethananda Foundation, Manuru-Padukere, Karnataka, (24 March 2025).

Chairperson to a technical session at the SUSTAINITI 2024: Sustainable Development in Unequal World: Public Policy Paths’, a seminar jointly organized by Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE)-Bengaluru Campus, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC)-Bangalore, and Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA)-Karnataka Regional branch, conducted at MAHE, Bangalore campus, Karnataka, (5—6 June 2024).

Panellist for Facebook Live Talk, “What India Discrimination Report 2022 Tells Us?” to discuss “Caste Discrimination in Agricultural Credit Markets”, organized by Oxfam India, New Delhi, (6 October 2022).

The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) (Membership No: L /2917/21-22)

Types of Data: Cross-section and Panel.

Data Collection Methods: Personal interview method, Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) method.

Handling Large-Scale Data sources: National Statistical Office (NSO)/ National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS), National Family Health Survey (NFHS), Tamil Nadu Household Panel Survey (TNHPS), and Tamil Nadu Covid Pulse Survey (TNCPS). 

Statistical Software Packages: STATA, SPSS, EVIEWS, FRONTIER (4.1), and DEAP (v2.1).

Statistical/ Econometric Models: t-test, Chi-square test, Inequality measures, OLS regression, Probit, Logit, Quantile regression, Oaxaca-Blinder, Oaxaca-Ransom, Machado-Mata-Melly’s quantile regression decomposition, Non-linear decomposition models like Fairlie, Propensity Score Matching method, and linear and non-linear Panel regression models.

Computer Knowledge: MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint.

Availed financial subsistence from Malcolm & Elizabeth Adisheshaiah Trust Fund through the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) for five months (October 2019 —February 2020). 

Availed Institutional Doctoral Fellowship by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) to pursue the PhD programme at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, for four years (August 2015 —May 2019).