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Shoumitro Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor of economics at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2018. He has also been a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK.

Shoumitro's recent research has been at the intersection of trade and development economics. One strand of his research focuses on trade in agricultural markets, where he studies reasons for market power and low farmer incomes and also the relationship between agricultural subsidies and underground water. Additionally, he has studied the relationship between growth and fertility in the developing world.

In 2015-16, Shoumitro served as an Economist in the Office of the then Chief Economic Advisor of India (Dr. Arvind Subramanian) where he worked on topics related to agriculture and international trade. He contributed extensively to a study on India's free trade agreements, India's agricultural policy, and recommending a framework for the minimum support price of pulses. 

At Princeton, Shoumitro was a 2017-18 Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Graduate Fellow. He also won a Ph.D. scholarship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University for his dissertation work. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (with honors) in economics from St. Stephen's College, India in 2009 where he won the Ananta Goel Memorial Award. He subsequently completed an M.A. in economics from the Delhi School of Economics (DSE) in 2011, where he was the recipient of the Randhir Singh Memorial Scholarship.