Humanities and Social Studies Center, Room S3356
1226 Park St.
Grinnell, IA 50112
United States
Shubhashrita Basu
Shubhashrita Basu, Assistant Professor, received a B.Sc. in Economics from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India, a M.A. in Economics from Jadavpur University, India, and Ph.D. in Economics from Clemson University in May of 2021. Her teaching and research areas are health economics and labor economics. Most of her current research focuses on investigating the multifaceted ways in which health and human capital formation affect each other throughout the life cycle. This includes a particular emphasis on spillovers within families and across generations, including genetic linkages.
Education and Degrees
Assistant Professor of Economics.
Ph.D., (2021), Clemson University
M.A., Jadavpur University (India)
B.Sc., St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata (India)
Selected Publications
- [2022] “Research priorities for measuring biologic age: summary and future directions from the Research Centers Collaborative Network Workshop”, GeroScience, 1-11 (Brinkley et al.) [Link]
- [2021] “Consequences of Teenage Childbearing on child Health”, Economics and Human Biology, 42 (with Devon Gorry) [Link]
- “Reimagining Gene-Environment Interaction Analysis for Human Complex Traits”(with Jiacheng Miao, Gefei Song, Yixuan Wu, Jiaxin Hu, Yuchang Wu, James S.Andrews, Katherine Schaumberg, Jason M. Fletcher, Lauren L. Schmitz, Qiongshi Lu)[Submitted: Preprint]