Bio

Nilanjana Roy is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria. She joined the department in 1997 after receiving her PhD in Economics from the University of California, Riverside that same year.

Nilanjana’s research areas are econometrics and development economics. Her specific areas of interest in econometrics are panel data, nonparametric and semiparametric econometrics. On the development side, she is broadly interested in issues of well-being (e.g. health, education) in developing countries. She has published her work in various peer-reviewed journals such as Applied Economics, Economics Letters, Empirical Economics, Review of Econometrics, among others. She also serves as a referee for various journals including Economics Letters, Empirical Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development.

Nilanjana teaches courses in econometrics and development economics both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Currently she is involved in two graduate supervisions.

Publications

Articles Published in Refereed Journals:

• Clarke, J.A. & N. Roy, "On Statistical Inference for Inequality Measures Calculated from Complex Survey Data", Empirical Economics, 2011, to appear.
• Ullah, A., V. K. Srivastava and N. Roy, 1995, “Moments of the Function of Non-Normal Random Vector with Applications to Econometric Estimators and Test Statistics,” Econometric Reviews, 14.4: 459-471.
• Roy, N., 1996, “Series Estimation of Income Elasticity of Calorie Intake Across Income Classes,” Journal of Quantitative Economics, 12.2:77-84.
• Roy, N., 2001, “A Semiparametric Analysis of Calorie Response to Income Change Across Income Groups and Gender”, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 10.1:93-109.
• Roy, N., 2002, “Is Adaptive Estimation Useful for Panel Models with Heteroskedasticity in the Individual-Specific Error Component? Some Monte Carlo Evidence,” Econometric Reviews, 21.2: 189-203.
• Roy, N. and G. C. van Kooten, 2004, "Another look at the income elasticity of non-point source air pollutants: A semiparametric approach", Economics Letters, 85.1: 17-22.
• Engineer, M., I. King, N. Roy, 2008, “The human development index as a criterion for optimal planning”, Indian Growth and Development Review, 1.2:172-192.
• Clarke, J. A., N. Roy and M.J. Courchane, 2009, "On the robustness of racial discrimination findings in mortgage lending studies", Applied Economics, 41: 2279-2297.

Book chapters:

• Ullah, A. and N. Roy, 1998, “Nonparametric and Semiparametric Econometrics of Panel Data,” in A. Ullah and D. E. A. Giles (eds.), Handbook of Applied Economic Statistics, Marcel Dekker, New York.
• Roy, N., 2003, "The Effect of Economic Growth on Standard of Living: A Semiparametric Analysis", in D. E. A. Giles (ed.), Computer-Aided Econometrics, Marcel Dekker, New York.

Courses

ECON 320, Economic Development

ECON 365, Econometrics: Part I

ECON 366, Econometrics: Part II

ECON 520, Economic Development

ECON 548, Applied Econometric Modelling

Research Projects

• Health and Wealth: Short Panel Granger Causality Tests for Developing Countries (with J. A. Clarke and W. Chen)
• Gender Differences in School Attendance: Some Evidence from India (with J.A. Clarke and A. Barnes)