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Sweta Sen
Visiting Fulbright Fellow
Sustainability and Development
Climate + Energy
Conservation + Restoration
Office
4024 Dana
Websites
About
Sweta Sen is a Fulbright–Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow in the School for Environment and Sustainability. Her research examines how households live with climate risk. She combines household surveys and time-use data with remote sensing and spatial econometrics to study these decisions across spatial scales. Her overarching goal is to generate evidence for place-based climate and disaster policy. She has also worked on carbon pricing and renewable energy transitions in India.
Before joining SEAS, she was an Assistant Professor at the Madras School of Economics in Chennai, India, and a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Economic Growth in New Delhi, where she worked on India’s G20 Knowledge Partner programme.
Publications
Sen, S., Nayak, N.C., & Mohanty, W.K. (2023) . Choices between adaptation and coping strategies as responses to cyclonic shocks and their impact on household welfare in villages on the east coast of India. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 94, 103834. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103834
Sen, S. & Sahoo, P. (2024). Carbon Pricing for sustainable transition in India. World Development Perspectives, 34, 100586. doi:10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100586
Sen, S., Nayak, N.C., & Mohanty, W.K. (2023) . Impact of tropical cyclones on sustainable development through loops and cycles: Evidence from select developing countries of Asia. Empirical Economics, 65, 2467–2498. doi:10.1007/s00181-023- 02431-9
Sen, S., Nayak, N.C., & Mohanty, W.K. (2022). Estimating household vulnerability to tropical cyclones: An investigation of tropical cyclone shocks in coastal villages of eastern India. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 83, 103404. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103404
Sen, S., Nayak, N.C., & Mohanty, W.K. (2021). Long-term forecasting of tropical cyclones over Bay of Bengal using linear and non-linear statistical models. GeoJournal, 88, 85–107. doi:10.1007/s10708-021-10543-x
Research
Sweta Sen’s research focuses on how people respond to climate risk and what those responses cost them in welfare, with particular interests in climate shocks, disaster recovery and adaptation, spatial spillovers, insurance and safety nets, and energy transitions.
Education
Ph.D, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
MS, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
M.Sc, Economics, University of Calcutta
B.Sc, Economics, University of Calcutta