My primary research interests include Development and Macroeconomics, with a special focus on Public Policy related to the Indian Economy. So far I have worked on issues like employment intensity of growth, infrastructure and human development, infrastructure and agricultural productivity, participation and public service delivery, forest sustainabilty and drivers of forest loss, payments for enviornmental services, socioeconomic and cultural aspects of Ganga River basin, transition rates of education, issues and determinants of FDI, regional inequalities and convergence measures, MFI, mission drift and repayment risks, health financing and healthcare choices among the elderly, cost of dying, giving behaviour and economics of generosity, risk assessment of coastal hazards, assessment of food subsidy scheme in the Indian context, and MGNREGA processes, procedures, convergence, distress migration and impact assessment. In pursuit of furthering my research on contemporary issues, I am currently conducting research on MGNREGA and distress migration, food and nutrition security, and women in higher education. Besides, I am supervising students on a wide range of development issues, including nutrition security, MGNREGA and migration, financial inclusion, the economics of corruption, and the startup ecosystem. In addition to providing research guidance to the students, I have collaborated with various national and international agencies, including UNDP, ICAR, ICSSR, the Government of Odisha, central Ministries, and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.

All Publications

Borrowers credit risk factors, perception towards repayment interventions and moral hazard in loan delinquency: an investigation of Indian microfinance institutions by Sangwan S., Nayak N.C., Harshita, Sangwan V. Applied Economics 53 6554-6569 (2021)
Choices between adaptation and coping strategies as responses to cyclonic shocks and their impacton household welfare in villages on the eact coast of India by Sen S., Nayak N. C., Mohanty W. K. International Journal of Disaser Risk Reduction 94 1-16 (2023)
Impact of tropical cyclones on sustainable development through loops and cycles: Evidence from select developing countries of Asia by Sen S., Nayak N. C., Mohanty W. K. Empirical Economics 65 2467-2498 (2023)
Estimating household vulnerability to tropical cyclones: An investigation of tropical cyclone shocks in coastal villages of eastern India by Sen S., Nayak N.C., Mohanty W.K. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 83: 103404 1-17 (2022)
Magnitude and determinants of inpatient health expenditure among the elderly in India by Chatterjee C., Nayak N. C., Mahakud J. International Journal of Health Planning and Management 37 1402-1420 (2022)
Vulnerability and risk perceptions of hydrometeorological disasters: a study of a coastal district of Odisha, India by Sen S., Nayak N.C., Mohanty W.K., Keshri C.K. GeoJournal Published online on 5 April 1-21 (2022)
Multidimensional impact of food security on household welfare: Evidences from a household survey in three Indian states by Satapathy J., Nayak N. C., Mahakud J. International Journal of Social Economics 47 913-932 (2020)
Foreign Direct Investment in India: Emerging Horizon by Vani Archana, N C Nayak, B Basu Indian Economic Review 42(2), Delhi School of Economics 255-266 (2007)
Investigating preferences between cash and in-kind transfers among the food subsidy beneficiaries of India by Satapathy J., Nayak N.C., Mahakud J. Journal of Public Affairs 22: e2592 1-11 (2022)
Determinants of Individual Giving Behavior in Urban India by Sen A., Chatterjee R. S., Nayak N. C., Mahakud J. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 31 271-285 (2020)

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