Saturday, February 14

Archana Dang

Assistant Professor

    Archana Dang

    Archana Dang is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG). She holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. She is an applied microeconomist specialising in health economics and health financing, with a particular focus on India. Her research interests include issues related to overweight and obesity, and she is currently examining treatment-seeking behaviour among marginalised populations. Her work has been published in Economics & Human Biology, Agricultural Economics, and Review of Development Economics, and she has also co-authored book chapters for ADBI and Springer.

    Journal Publications 

    Dang, A., Maitra, P., & Menon, N. (2019). “Labor Market Engagement and the Body Mass Index of Working Adults: Evidence from India.” Economics & Human Biology, 33, 58-77.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X18301151 

    Jain, A., Gupta, P., Anand, S. P. S., & Dang, A. (2016). “Digital Paper Prints as Replacement for LASER Films: A Study of Intra-Observer Agreement for Wrist Radiographic Findings in Rickets. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, JCDR, 10(8), TC11-14.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5028466/ 

    Book Chapters

    Dang, A., Maitra, P., & Menon, N. (2019). “The Geography of Excess Weight in Urban India: Regional Patterns and Labour Market and Dietary Correlates in Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Yoshiro Higano and Peter Nijkamp, editors, Disease, Human Health, and Regional Growth and Development in Asia, Springer, 47-69.

    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-6268-2_3

    Dang, A., & Meenakshi, J. V. (2018).  “The nutrition transition and the intra-household double burden of malnutrition in India” in Helble Matthias and Azusa Sato, editors, Wealthy But Unhealthy: Overweight and Obesity in Asia and the Pacific: Trends, Costs, and Policies for Better Health, Asian Development Bank Institute,15-45.

    https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/432536/adbi-wealthy-unhealthy-overweight-obesity-asia-pacific.pdf#page=30

     

    Working Papers/Papers Under Submission (Review)

    Obesity and its Impact on COVID Occurrence: Evidence from India (joint with Indrani Gupta) Institute of Economic Growth Working Paper no.430, 2021 (under submission).

    http://iegindia.in/upload/profile_publication/doc-240521_180751WP430.pdf

    Role of Time Preferences in Explaining the Burden of Malnutrition: Evidence from Urban India. Centre for Development Economics Working Paper no. 309, 2020 (under review).

    http://econdse.org/wp-content/uploads/work309.pdf

     

    Media Publications

    Role of Time Preferences in Explaining the Burden of Malnutrition: Evidence from Urban India – Podcast with Shruti Rajagopalan on Ideas of India, 2021

    https://ideasofindia.libsyn.com/archana-dang-on-savings-self-control-and-obesity-patterns

    Covid-19: Does obesity play a role? – Ideas for India, 2021

    https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/human-development/covid-19-does-obesity-play-a-role.html.

    Labor Market Engagement and the Body Mass Index of Working Adults: Evidence from India

    Link to India Spend Article Based on this Research