DR. ANINDITA CHAKRABARTI
Assistant Professor
Centre for Development Studies
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
E-mail: anindita@tiss.edu
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Qualifications
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- M.Sc. (Economics), University of Calcutta
- M.Phil (Economics), Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Ph.D. (Economics), Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Areas of Interest
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- Maternal, Child Health Care and Utilisation of Services
- Quantification of Health and Health Status Index
- Economics of Education
- Price–Income Effect on Demand for Higher Education
- Economic Models of Household Behaviour and Socioeconomic Outcomes
- Applied Development Economic Models
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Recent Research & Projects
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- ‘Expenditure on Higher Education in India: Role Played by the Government and Household’, sponsored by the Board of Research Studies, TISS, 2004-2005
- ‘Socio-Economic Benefits of Establishing Petroleum Refinery at Bina (M.P.)’, sponsored by Bharat Oman Refinery Limited, 2004. (Co-Project Director)
- ‘Household Survey on Food Safety and Quality Control of Drugs in Western India’, sponsored by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (GoI) and World Bank, 2005. (Co-Project Director)
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Recent/Significant Publications |
- Measuring the Impact of Policy Variables on the Burden of Disease, (co-author), Social Sciences Research Journal, 10(1), 2002.
- Maternal Health Care Utilisation: An Empirical Analysis Based on Rural India. In B.B. Bhattacharya and A. Mitra (Eds.) Studies in Macroeconomics and Welfare, New Delhi: Academic Foundations, 321–349, 2005.
- Impact of Liberalisation and Globalisation: Emerging Issues for the Indian Youth, One India One People, 7(8), 18–20, 2005.
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Additional Relevant Information |
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Forthcoming Publications
- Variation in Health Expenditures: Is it Just Income or Other Factors. Empirical Investigation Using a Panel of Indian States. (Co-author) Forthcoming in Journal of Quantitative Economics.
- Efficiency in Production of Health: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis for Indian States. (Co-author) Forthcoming in Focus on Global Economic, edited by F. Columbus, New York: Nova Science Publications.
- Determinants of Expenditure on Education: An Empirical Analysis Using State-Level Data from India. (Co-author) Forthcoming in Economic and Political Weekly.
Papers Presented at Conferences
- ‘Measuring the Impact of Policy Variables on the Burden of Disease’. Paper presented by co-author at the APHEN Meetings organised by Centre for Health Economics, Chulalangkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 1998
- ‘Efficiency in Production of Health: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis for Indian States’, accepted for presentation at the Far Eastern meetings of the Econometric Society, Kobe, Japan, 2001.
- ‘Factors Governing Maternal Health Care Utilisation: Evidence from Rural India’. Paper presented in the Fortieth Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, February 13–15, 2004.
- ‘Determinants of Child Morbidity and Factors Governing Utilisation of Child Health Care: Evidence from Rural India’. Paper presented in the Forty-first Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, January 20–22, 2005. This paper was also accepted for presentation in Fourth Annual Conference on Models and Methods in Economics, December 8–10, 2004, organised by the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Award
The Jawaharlal Nehru Scholarship for Doctoral Studies in India (for health care). This scholarship is granted by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund.
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