Sourav Das
About
I am in the final stages of completing my Ph.D., with an anticipated completion date of November 2025. I was a visiting Ph.D. student at Harvard University from September to November 2024. I will also be a job market candidate from November 2025. Explore my detailed resume-
Research Associate
- Public Economics Unit
- Faculty of Economics & Management
- Nora-Platiel-Str. 4
- D-34109 Kassel
- University of Kassel, Germany
- Tel: +49 561 804-3034
- Email: s.das@uni-kassel.de
- Faculty Website: https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb07/en/ivwl/public-economics/team
Short Resume
Education
Visiting Ph.D. Scholar
September 2024 - November 2024
Harvard University, Boston, USA
Ph.D. researcher
April 2022 - Present
University of Kassel, Germany
M.S. in Economic Behaviour & Governance
April 2019 - December 2021
University of Kassel, Germany
B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics
January 2014 - June 2018
Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh
Employment
Research Associate
April 2022 - Present
University of Kassel, Germany
Program Manager
Master’s in Economic Behaviour & Governance
April 2023 - September 2023
University of Kassel, Germany
Research Assistant
September 2021 - February 2022
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn, Germany
Software Skills
Stata 100%
R 75%
Python 100%
Latex 100%
Research
- All
- Papers on Political Economy
- Papers on Health Economics
- Other Unpublished Work
- “Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany” with Ivo Bischoff, Reinhold Kosfeld. European Journal of Political Economy, 87, 102649, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2025.102649
- “Political budget cycles in federal systems: The case of India” with Patrick Hufschmidt, Fabian Mankat, Konstantinos Theocharopoulos (2nd R & R, European Journal of Political Economy).
- “Political social media cycle” with Thushyanthan Baskaran, Patrick Hufschmidt, Hamidur Rahman, Yogesh Uppal.
- “The cumulative effects of interlocal cooperation networks on the budget surplus, admin-istrative costs and local tax rates – Evidence from German municipalities” with Ivo Bischoff, Peter Haug.
- “Opposite effects of electoral dominance on land artificialisation. Perpetuum incrementum and the mandate – driven advantage in local land politics” with Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska, Ivo Bischoff.
- “Analyzing behavioral patterns in an online peer-to-peer mental health support platform” with John Naslund (from Harvard Medical School).
- “Leveraging Social Media to Enhance Mental Health: A Field Experiment”
Teaching
- Public Economics (lecture + tutorial), Winter 2022/23, Winter 2023/24, Winter 2024/25 , Winter 2025/26, (at University of Kassel, Germany)
- Behavioral Economics Meets Public Sector, Winter 2023/24, Winter 2024/25 (at University of Kassel, Germany)
- Contemporary Issues in Public Economics, Summer 2025 (at University of Kassel, Germany)
- Introduction to Economics & Research (lecture+tutorial), Winter 2022/23 , Summer 2023, Winter 2023/24 , Summer 2024 , Winter 2025/26 (at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
- Statistics for Business (lecture+tutorial), Summer 2025 (at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Research Interests
These are the areas of research I am interested in
Contact
Address
Nora-Platiel-Str. 4 D-34109 Kassel, Germany
Call Me
+49 561 804-3034
Email Me
s.das@uni-kassel.de