Shreyasee Das

Shreyasee Das

  • College of Liberal Arts

    Economics

    Associate Professor - Instructional

    Affiliated Faculty

    Programs
    • Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
    • Global Studies
Office Location

Gladfelter Hall, 242

Expertise

Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Gender Economics, Household Economics

Biography

Dr. Shreyasee Das joined the Economics Department at Temple University in 2018. She earned her Ph.D., M.A., and B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Houston. Before Temple, she was as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Dr. Das specializes in gender economics, household economics, and development economics. Her research examines how natural and industrial disasters affect household formation and marital matching outcomes, the impact of women's property rights and political participation on their empowerment, water allocation rules on health and agricultural productivity, and most recently, the relationship between electrification and intimate partner violence. Dr. Das teaches
Introductory Microeconomics, Development Economics and Economics of Global Poverty. She also serves as the Faculty Advisor for Women in Economics at Temple University.

Website | Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

  • Das, Shreyasee & Shatanjaya Dasgupta. 2025. Marriage Market Responses in the Wake of a Natural Disaster in India. Journal of South Asian Development, 20 (1), 31-57. 
    https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741241310652 
  • Bose, Nayana & Shreyasee Das. 2024.  Reassessing the relationship between women's empowerment and fertility: Evidence from India. Review of Development Economics,  28(2): 544–573. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13066
  • Shreyasee Das & Shatanjaya Dasgupta. 2023. Hidden costs of industrial disasters: Marriage market consequences of the Bhopal Gas Disaster, Economics Bulletin, 43 (2): 813-829. 
  • Bose, Nayana & Shreyasee Das. 2021."Intergenerational effects of improving women’s property rights: evidence from India", Oxford Development Studies, 49(3): 277-290.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2021.1899154

Courses Taught

  • Econ 1102: Microeconomic Principles
  • Econ 1902: Honors Microeconomic Principles
  • Econ 3062: Economics of Global Poverty
  • Econ 3547: Economics of Development and Growth
  • CLA 1001: CLA First Year Experience