Professor Dutta, Arnab
Dr. Arnab Dutta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Real Estate & Construction at the University of Hong Kong. He is an urban economist and planner.
Dr. Dutta’s research is at the intersection of many fields, including urban and land economics, real estate finance, regional science, economic geography, development economics, migration studies, and climate science, focusing on India. On the one hand, his work studies residential housing markets and how regulatory and institutional environments can affect the proliferation of informal housing. On the other hand, he is exploring how technology, transport infrastructure, and climate change can lead to the movement of people from rural to urban areas, thus affecting labor and housing markets in cities. In the past, Dr. Dutta has researched other policy issues concerning transportation regulations, nutrition and health, and sustainable development interventions.
Dr. Dutta completed his Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy in Spring 2023. Before that, he did a Master’s in Quantitative Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi Center) and a B.Sc. in Economics (Hons.) from the University of Calcutta.
Please visit Dr. Dutta’s website for more details on his research: www.arnabduttaurban.com
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