Soumya Gupta

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

RIT Dubai

sxgcad1@rit.edu

Soumya Gupta

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

RIT Dubai

Bio

Soumya Gupta is a faculty member in the Liberal Arts Department at RIT Dubai where she teaches courses on Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Development Economics.

Before transitioning to a full- time role at RIT, Soumya worked as a research economist at the Tata- Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition at Cornell University, and served as a visiting fellow at the American University of Sharjah. Her research interests lie at the intersections of food security, agriculture, and maternal and child nutrition. She has published widely in top field journals and her research has been shared at conferences in the fields of applied economics, nutrition and gender globally.

Soumya earned her PhD from Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and was the recipient of the inaugural Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research from the International Council for Research on Women. She holds a master’s degree in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Delhi University in India.

sxgcad1@rit.edu

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Squalli, Jay and Soumya Gupta. "Organic food consumption and environmental awareness in the United States." British Food Journal. (2025): 1-16. Web.

Gupta, Soumya, et al. "Women’s empowerment and intra-household diet diversity across the urban continuum: Evidence from India’s DHS." Food Policy 128. (2024): NA. Web.

Seth, Payal, Soumya Gupta, and Prabhu Pingali. "Did the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown reverse the nutritional gains in children? Evidence from primary panel data in rural India." Economic and Political Weekly 59. 5 (2024): NA. Web.

Gupta, Soumya, Naveen Sunder, and Prabhu Pingali. "Leveraging men’s education as an eﬀective pathway for improving diet quality: evidence from rural India." PLOS One 18. 11 (2023): --. Web.

Gupta, Soumya, et al. "COVD-19 and women’s nutrition security: panel data evidence from rural India." Economia Politica 39. (2022): 157 - 184. Web.

Gupta, Soumya, et al. "Ground- truthing the cost of achieving the EAT Lancet recommended diets: Evidence from rural India." Global Food Security 28. (2021): -. Web.

Gupta, Soumya, Naveen Sunder, and Prabhu Pingali. "Are women in rural India really consuming a less diversified diet?" Food and Nutrition Bulletin 41. 3 (2020): -. Web.

Gupta, Soumya, Naveen Sunder, and Prabhu Pingali. "Market access, production diversity and diet diversity: Evidence from India." Food and Nutrition Bulletin 41. 3 (2020): -. Web.

Gupta, Soumya, Vidya Vemireddy, and Prabhu Pingali. "Adapting the women’s empowerment in agriculture index to specific country context: Insights and critiques from fieldwork in India." Global Food Security 23. (2019): 245- 255. Web.

Gupta, Soumya, Naveen Sunder, and Prabhu Pingali. "Nutrition outcomes of empowerment and market integration for women in rural India." Food Security 11. (2019): 1243 - 1256. Web.

Gupta, Soumya, Prabhu Pingali, and Per Pinstrup- Andersen. "Women’s empowerment and nutrition status: the case of iron deficiency in India." Food Policy 88. (2019): -. Web.

Gupta, Soumya, Prabhu Pingali, and Per Pinstrup- Andersen. "Women’s empowerment in India agriculture: Does market orientation of farming systems matter?" Food Security 9. (2017): 1447 - 1463. Web.

Currently Teaching

ECON-101

Principles of Microeconomics

3 Credits

Microeconomics studies the workings of individual markets. That is, it examines the interaction of the demanders of goods and services with the suppliers of those goods and services. It explores how the behavior of consumers (demanders), the behavior of producers (suppliers), and the level of market competition influence market outcomes.

ECON-201

Principles of Macroeconomics

3 Credits

Macroeconomics studies aggregate economic behavior. The course begins by presenting the production possibilities model. This is followed by a discussion of basic macroeconomic concepts including inflation, unemployment, and economic growth and fluctuations. The next topic is national income accounting, which is the measurement of macroeconomic variables. The latter part of the course focuses on the development of one or more macroeconomic models, a discussion of the role of money in the macroeconomy, the aggregate supply-aggregate demand framework, and other topics the individual instructor may choose.

ECON-448

Development Economics

3 Credits

This course provides an introduction to development economics, which focuses on the problems and challenges faced typically but not exclusively by the developing countries. In this course we will study the economic transformation of developing countries by focusing on the characteristics of land, labor and credit markets in rural areas of developing countries. We will survey the large literature on modeling economic growth and discuss relevant case studies from developing countries.